{"id":302531,"date":"2026-05-06T12:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/302531\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:54:08","slug":"antisemitic-hate-incidents-in-san-diego-down-35-but-remain-at-high-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/302531\/","title":{"rendered":"Antisemitic hate incidents in San Diego down 35% but remain at high level"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Press<\/a>San Diego Police Department Captain Matt Dobbs addresses a press conference in Hillcrest about hate crime vandalism that included swastikas and anti-gay slurs. (File photo by Drew Sitton\/Times of San Diego) <\/p>\n

There were 91 incidents of antisemitic harassment and vandalism in San Diego last year, a 35% drop from 2024, the ADL<\/a> reported Wednesday in its annual audit.<\/p>\n

However, the national anti-hate organization said the number of incidents remains historically high, and the recent decline may reflect under-reporting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe documented 91 antisemitic incidents in San Diego in 2025, down from 139 in 2024,\u201d\u00a0said Fabienne Perlov, ADL San Diego<\/a> regional director.\u00a0\u201cBut this decrease doesn\u2019t mean progress, as nearly one in four incidents now target Jewish institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also know this decrease likely reflects under-reporting as families lose faith in institutional responses or fear retaliation against their children,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The ADL classified 24 of the 2025 incidents in the city as vandalism and 67 as harassment. There were no assaults reported.<\/p>\n

Nationally, there\u202f were 6,274 incidents of antisemitic assault,\u202fharassment\u202fand vandalism in 2025, an average of 17 incidents per day, according to the ADL audit. This was a 33% decrease from 2024, but the organization said the number remains\u202fconsiderably higher\u202fthan in years prior to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in San Diego and have been at the synagogue for 23 years, and nothing compares to these last few years,\u201d\u00a0said Rabbi Scott Meltzer of Ohr Shalom Synagogue in Bankers Hill.\u00a0\u201cWe have\u00a0been vandalized with hate-filled graffiti multiple\u00a0times\u00a0and the perpetrator is still nowhere to be found. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is great fear in my congregation. Our security budget has skyrocketed to make our building safe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The annual ADL audit includes both criminal and non-criminal acts of harassment, vandalism and assault against individuals and groups as reported to the ADL by victims, law enforcement, the media and partner organizations. General criticism of Israel or anti-Israel activism is not classified as antisemitism.<\/p>\n

The ADL urged anyone who experiences an antisemitic incident to report it online.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Police Department Captain Matt Dobbs addresses a press conference in Hillcrest about hate crime vandalism that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[122169,3629,2085,36698,22170,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-302531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-adl","tag-antisemitism","tag-audit","tag-hate-crime","tag-jews","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}