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26 THE GUIDE 2021/2022
Yael Rabin, data analyst with the ADL’s Center
on Extremism.

And Yael Rabin, a data analyst with the ADL’s
Center on Extremism, said the rate at which antise-
mitic incidents were being recorded prior to the
pandemic suggests that the imposed isolation seems
to have leveled off what was shaping up to be a
year where many more incidents would have been
recorded. “If it weren’t for the pandemic, or stay-at-home
measures, it probably would have continued to
increase,” Rabin said. “Not just with the harass-
ment, but with vandalism as well.”
For the second straight year, Pennsylvania had
the nation’s fifth-highest number of antisemitic
incidents, according to the audit. The Keystone
State trailed only New York (336), New Jersey (295),
California (289) and Florida (127) in total inci-
dents. Within Pennsylvania, the greatest number
of incidents took place in Philadelphia County (39),
followed by Montgomery (17), Delaware (eight),
Lehigh (five) and Allegheny (five).

The national findings were released at an April
27 Zoom webinar, during which the ADL reported
2,024 incidents against American Jews during 2020,
down 4% from 2019. That was still the third-highest
year for incidents against Jews nationwide since 1979,
said Deb Leipzig, ADL’s vice president of leadership.

“The pandemic changed life as we know it,
but it didn’t stop hate,” said ADL CEO Jonathan
Greenblatt, adding that the stats showed an average
of more than five antisemitic acts per day.

“Antisemites are elusive,” he said. “Anti-Jewish
hate is often thought of as the oldest hatred. It is
really the most persistent virus because it adapts
and mutates and finds new vulnerabilities to exploit
for spreading its toxin.”
Zoombombing is a new medium for antisemi-
tism, Greenblatt said, and is partly responsible for
a 40% increase in incidents at Jewish institutions
compared to 2019.