
Kanye West and the mainstreaming of antisemitism
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Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes in the United States
The anti-defamation league has a very broad definition of anti-Semitic incidents. In 2015, by their data, there was 942 anti-Semitism incidents in the United States. That increased massively in 2017 up to nearly 2000 incidents and has remained at that level since. The 2018 attack on the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue killed 11 Jewish worshippers.
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