Antisemitic incidents in the United States rose by about 400 per cent in slightly over two weeks since war broke out in the Middle East after Palestinian group Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, Reuters reports quoting advocacy group Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as saying.

The advocacy group’s data — which showed a 388pc rise in antisemitic incidents in the US between Oct 7 and Oct 23 over the prior year — comes amid monitoring by American authorities of domestic threats due to the conflict.

The ADL Center on Extremism said preliminary data showed 312 reported US antisemitic incidents from Oct 7 to Oct 23, including harassment, vandalism and assault. About 190 of those were directly linked to the war between Israel and Hamas.

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