THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, January 20, 1984 1

Anti-Semitic Incidents Decline in U.S., Rise Here

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from the category of van-
dalism.
The ADL reported that
115 persons were arrested
in connection with 55 anti-
Semitic incidents in both
categories. Almost 90 per-
cent of those arrested were
teenagers, a statistic that
followed the pattern found
by previous ADL audits.
Richard Lobenthal, di-
rector of the Michigan
Region for ADL, said
Michigan had 15 incidents
in 1981, nine in 1982 and 12

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last year. "These are ver-
ified incidents of a certain
type of vandalism," he said.
"The reality is that the
number of incidents is far
more than the number of re-
corded incidents.
"However, the study is
useful because we use the
same criteria each year."
Lobenthal said the 1983
incidents in Michigan in-
cluded the spraying of
graffiti by three teena-
gers at Adat Shalom Syn-
agogue, two assaults,
home vandalism in Far-
mington Hills and Bir-
mingham. He said a
series of threatening
telephone calls made to
Jews in Ann Arbor were
not recorded because he
learned about them
third-hand, long after
they happened, and he
was unable to get specific
information about indi-
vidual calls.
Describing the 1983 na-
tional declines in anti-
Semitic incidents as "wel-
come," Perlmutter said

counter-active measures
and heightened public con-
cern over the problem likely
contributed to the decline.
He listed the following de-
velopments:
• Stricter law enforce-
ment and punishment
nationwide against those
responsible for perpetrating
anti-Semitic incidents;
• Passage of laws, many
based on ADL model statue,
against religious or ethnic
vandalism in sixteen states:
Arizona,
California,
Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Il-
linois, Indiana, Maryland,
Massachussets, New Jer-
sey, New York, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Is-
land, Virginia and Wash-
ington;
• Stepped up news-
paper and TV attention
to "bias crimes," and in-
tensify educational pro-
grams to eradicate
bigotry and promote
appreciation for ethnic
•diversity.
The audit cited two other
possible explanations for
the decline in anti-Semitic
incidents:
• The over111 decrease in
the number of crimes com-
mitted in this country in
1982 and the first half of
1983, as reported by the
FBI;
• Imitative behavior,
which influenced increases
in anti-Semitic vandalism
in the past, may have been
dampened during the last
two years in the face of stric-
ter law enforcement and
greater public concern.
In addressing the find-
ings of the audit, Perl-
mutter asserted that they
provide only a single ba-
rometer for measureing
anti-Jewish hostility in
this country.
Anti-Semitic incidents,
he said, constitute only one
of several manifestations of
bigotry in the United States
of concern to the American
Jewish Community. Others
include:

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• Anti-Semitic activities
of hate groups such as the
Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis
and
various
armed
paramilitary groups, in-
cluding Posse Comitatus;
• The increasingly open
anti-Semitism promoted by
the Soviet Union as "anti-
Zionism" and the activities
of radical leftist organiza-
tions such as the Commu-
nity Party and the
Trotskyist Socialist Work-
ers Party whose prop-
aganda against Israel and
Zionism attacks the most
heartfelt concerns of the
overwhelming majority of
Jews both in the U.S. and
around the world;
• The outpouring of
anti-Semitism at the
United Nations disguised
as anti-Zionism;
• Anti-Israel and anti-
Zionist propaganda pur-
veyed by pro-Arab and
pro-PLO groups;
• The spreading of
Holocaust revisionist prop-
aganda by organizations
and individuals that deny
the reality of the Nazi an-
nihilation of six million
Jews;
• The private prejudices
and bigotries, which cannot
be counted, that take place
in executive suites where
discrimination against
Jews is practiced, or in so-
cial clubs that bar Jews
from membership.
The audit noted that
several incidents in 1983
attracted considerable
publicity and were per-
ceived by many as moti-
vated by anti-Semitism.
These included shootings
directed at New York's
Yeshiva University and
its students, a purported
arson at a Jewish center
in Bloomington, Ind., and
arson and vandalism di-
rected at synagogues and
homes of individual Jews
in West Hartford, Conn.

cupant is one too many." He
called for continuing educa-
tion, legislative and law
enforcement efforts.

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In the yeshiva incidents,
police have not yet been
able to establish that anti-
Semitism was the motive of
the attacks. In
Bloomington, authorities
suspect that anti-Semitism
was the motivation. In the
Connecticut incidents, a
Jewish teenager admitted
he was responsible.
"Regardless of the decline
in anti-Semitic incidents in
the past two years,"
Perlmutter concluded, "the
stark fact remains that in
1983 there were 670 inci-
dents of anti-Semitic van-
dalism. The vandalizing of
even one religious institu-
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