The Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit found that 2,107 incidents of anti-Semitism occurred in the United States in 2019, marking the highest number of incidents since the group began to track anti-Jewish hate in 1979. Coming on the heels of this record year of prejudice, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt warned that the coronavirus pandemic has ushered in “new manifestations of anti-Semitism.” Speaking to the press on Tuesday, Greenblatt explained numerous groups are “trying to exploit this moment … to seed hate into the atmosphere.”

When I first wrote of rising pandemic-related anti-Semitism in early April, the nation had witnessed acts of vandalism, online anti-Semitic harassment of both Jewish and non-Jewish groups, efforts by white supremacists and neo-Nazis to spread COVID-19 to the Jewish community, and numerous groups seeking to blame Jews and Israel for the spread of COVID-19.