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The following is a list of major antisemitic incidents in the United States.

Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator
December 7, 2020 Vandalism 0 0 Boise, Idaho Anne Frank Memorial Vandalism: Sometime between the evening of December 7th and the morning of December 8th, 2020, nine swastika stickers were placed throughout the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial in Boise Idaho. In addition to symbol of Nazi Germany, the stickers included the words "We Are Everywhere." ?
August 27, 2020 Riot 0 ? Kenosha, Wisconsin Jacob Blake riots: On August 27, 2020, hundreds of protesters and rioters looted and vandalized Kenosha, Wisconsin. During the chaos, the driveway of the Beth Hillel Temple was spray-painted with the words, "Free Palestine," linking Jewish religious institutions with political hatred of the state of Israel.[1] Mob
August 25, 2020 Arson 0 0 Newark, Delaware Late on August 25, 2020, 45 firefighters responded to a fire at the Chabad center of the University of Delaware. It was later determined to be arson.[2][3] ?
May 30, 2020 Riot 0 ? Los Angeles, California George Floyd riots: Beginning Saturday night May 30, 2020, hundreds of protesters and rioters looted and vandalized synagogues and Jewish stores in the Fairfax area of Los Angeles. Aside from the general complaints against police brutality that ignited the nationwide riots, synagogues were spray-painted with the words, "F*ck Israel" and "Free Palestine," linking Jewish religious institutions with political hatred of the state of Israel. 400 protesters were arrested.[4] Mob
December 29, 2019 Stabbing 1 4 Monsey, New York Monsey Hanukkah stabbing: On Saturday night, December 28, 2019, the seventh night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, a masked African-American man, Grafton E. Thomas, wielding a large knife or machete, invaded the home of a Hasidic rabbi in Monsey, Rockland County, New York, where a Hanukkah party was underway, and began stabbing the guests. Five people were wounded, two of whom were hospitalized in critical condition.[5][6][7] 72-year-old man Josef Neuman, who was in a coma for 59 days, succumbed to his wounds in March 2020.[8] Rottenberg's son was also among the injured.[9] Guests struck back, hitting the attacker with chairs and a small table.[10] Grafton E. Thomas
December 14, 2019 Vandalism 0 0 Los Angeles, California On Saturday, December 14, 2019, a vandal broke into Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills, burglarized it, and damaged religious books and other articles inside. He attempted to escape by fleeing to Hawaii, where he was caught by police.[11][12] Anton Nathaniel Redding
December 10, 2019 Shooting 3 3 Jersey City, New Jersey 2019 Jersey City shooting: On December 10, 2019, David Nathaniel Anderson (age 47) and his girlfriend Francine Graham (age 50),[13][14] both African-American,[15] perpetrated a shooting at a kosher grocery store located in the Greenville section of Jersey City, New Jersey, in the United States. Five people were killed at the store, including the two assailants and three civilians whom they attacked. Additionally, the assailants wounded one civilian and two police officers.[16][17][18] Anderson had made posts on social media that were anti-police and anti-Semitic. His language was linked to that used by the Black Hebrew Israelite movement.[19]
  • David Anderson
  • Francine Graham
April 27, 2019 Shooting 1 3 Poway, California Poway synagogue shooting: 19-year-old white male John Timothy Earnest fired shots with an AR-15 style rifle inside the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, California,[20][21] on the last day of the Jewish Passover holiday, which fell on a Shabbat.[22] One woman was killed and three other people were injured, including the synagogue's rabbi.[23][24] In an antisemitic and racist open letter posted on 8chan shortly before the shooting and signed with Earnest's name, the author blamed Jews for the "meticulously planned genocide of the European race", a white genocide conspiracy theory.[25] John Timothy Earnest
October 27, 2018 Shooting 11 6 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: Robert Gregory Bowers, a 46-year-old white male,[26][27][28] killed eleven people and wounded six in a mass shooting at the Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States.[29] Bowers had earlier posted anti-Semitic comments against HIAS (formerly, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) on the online social network Gab.[30] Referring to Central American migrant caravans and immigrants, Bowers posted on Gab that "HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in."[31] Robert Gregory Bowers
April 13, 2014 Shooting 3 0 Overland Park, Kansas Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting: 73-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., a Klansman and neo-Nazi,[32] perpetrated shootings at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom, a Jewish retirement community, both located in Overland Park, Kansas. A total of three people were killed in the shootings, two of whom were shot at the community center and one shot at the retirement community.[33] Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.
June 10, 2009 Shooting 1 1 Washington, D.C. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting: At about 12:50 p.m. on June 10, 2009, 88-year-old white supremacist James Wenneker von Brunn entered the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. with a rifle and fatally shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.[34][35][36][37] James von Brunn
July 28, 2006 Shooting 1 6 Seattle, Washington 2006 Seattle Jewish Federation shooting: at around 4:00 p.m. Naveed Afzal Haq entered the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington and shot six women, one fatally.[38] Witnesses reported that before Haq began shooting he shouted, "I'm a Muslim American; I'm angry at Israel."[39] Naveed Afzal Haq
July 4, 2002 Shooting 2 5 Los Angeles, California 2002 Los Angeles International Airport shooting: Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, a 41-year-old Egyptian national,[40] opened fire at the airline ticket counter of El Al, Israel's national airline, at Los Angeles International Airport. Two people were killed and four others were injured before the gunman was fatally shot by an El Al security guard.[41] In September 2002, federal investigators concluded that Hadayet hoped to influence U.S. government policy in favor of the Palestinians, and that the incident was a terrorist act.[42][43][44] Hesham Mohamed Hadayet
August 10, 1999 Shooting 1 5 Los Angeles, California Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting: at around 10:50 a.m. white supremacist Buford O. Furrow, Jr. walked into the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills and opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon, firing 70 shots into the complex. The gunfire wounded five people: three children, a teenage counselor, and an office worker. Shortly thereafter, Furrow murdered a mail carrier, fled the state, and finally surrendered to authorities.[45][46] Buford O. Furrow, Jr.
March 1, 1994 Shooting 1 3 New York, New York 1994 Brooklyn Bridge shooting: Rashid Baz shot at a van of 15 Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish students who were traveling on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, killing one and injuring three others.[47] Baz was arrested and found to be in possession of anti-Jewish literature, a .380-caliber semiautomatic pistol, a stun gun, a bulletproof vest, and two 50-round ammunition magazines. Initially, Baz claimed a traffic dispute led him to commit the shootings, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation initially classified the case as road rage.[48] Witnesses testified that on the day of the shooting Baz had attended "a raging anti-Semitic sermon" by Imam Reda Shata at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge.[49] Rashid Baz
August 19, 1991 - August 21 Riot 1 New York, New York Crown Heights riot: a race riot that took place in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City in which black residents turned against Orthodox Jewish Chabad residents. The riots began on August 19, 1991, after two children of Guyanese immigrants were accidentally struck by one of the cars in the motorcade of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the leader of Chabad, a Jewish religious movement. One child died and the second was severely injured. In the wake of the fatal accident, some black youths attacked several Jews on the street, seriously injuring several and fatally injuring Yankel Rosenbaum, an Orthodox Jewish student from Australia.[50] Mob
June 18, 1984 Shooting 1 0 Denver, Colorado Members of the white nationalist group The Order murder Jewish talk radio host Alan Berg in a shooting.[51] The Order
October 8, 1977 Shooting 1 2 St. Louis, Missouri Guests who attended a bar mitzvah were leaving Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel synagogue when white supremacist Joseph Paul Franklin began shooting at them, killing Gerald Gordon, and wounding Steven Goldman and William Ash.[52][53][54] Joseph Paul Franklin
August 17, 1915 Lynching 1 0 Marietta, Georgia Lynching of Leo Frank: Leo Frank was an American factory superintendent who was wrongly convicted in 1913 of the murder of a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, Georgia.[56][58] His trial, conviction, and appeals attracted national attention. A mob lynched him on August 17, 1915, in response to the commutation of his death sentence. Mob
December 17, 1862 Order Parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky General Order No. 11 was an order issued by Union Major-General Ulysses S. Grant on December 17, 1862 during the Vicksburg Campaign, that took place during the American Civil War. The order expelled all Jews from Grant's military district, comprising areas of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. Grant issued the order in an effort to reduce Union military corruption, and stop an illicit trade of Southern cotton, which Grant thought was being run "mostly by Jews and other unprincipled traders."[59]

At Holly Springs, Mississippi, Grant's Union Army supply depot, Jewish persons were rounded up and forced to leave the city by foot. On December 20, 1862, three days after Grant's order, Confederate Major General Earl Van Dorn's Confederate Army raided Holly Springs, that prevented many Jewish persons from potential expulsion. Although delayed by Van Dorn's raid, Grant's order was fully implemented at Paducah, Kentucky. Thirty Jewish families were expelled and roughly treated from the city. Jewish community leaders protested, and there was an outcry by members of Congress and the press; President Abraham Lincoln countermanded the General Order on January 4, 1863. Grant claimed during his 1868 Presidential campaign that he had issued the order without prejudice against Jews as a way to address a problem that "certain Jews had caused".[60]

Ulysses S. Grant

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