2006 Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents: Summary Findings
Source: Anti-Defamation League
Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States declined for the second consecutive year in 2006. The Anti-Defamation League’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents reported a total of 1,554 anti-Semitic incidents in 2006, a 12 percent decline from 1,757 reported in 2005.
The decline came in a year marked by several violent attacks, including the shooting at the Greater Seattle Jewish Federation in July by an Islamic extremist, in which staffer Pamela Waechter was killed and three others seriously wounded.
That attack and others underscored the continuing threat to Jewish community institutions, particularly at a time of heightened conflict in the Middle East. Tensions from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Summer 2006 war in southern Lebanon simmered over onto U.S. college campuses and into anti-war protests.
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