Law enforcement officers work at the scene, after an attack that injured multiple people in Boulder, Colorado, US, June 1, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Community Security Initiative of New York have partnered to create a Joint Threat Intelligence Partnership, a concerted effort to quell hate crimes and other acts of terror against the Jewish American community.

“This is a historic moment in Jewish security,” ADL chief executive Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. “By combining ADL’s decades of experience tracking extremism and threats to the Jewish community with CSI-NY’s operational threat intelligence expertise, we are creating a powerful, national early warning system for Jewish communities. No synagogue, school, or community center should ever feel it faces these threats alone.”

The Joint Threat Intelligence Partnership (JTIP) is the first of its kind, the ADL said in a press release on Friday, for its integration of research and traditional threat assessment technologies. This synergy of expertise will be harnessed by local enforcement, community organizations, and other stakeholders to identify and stop threats before they materialize.

It comes as antisemitism continues to reach record levels in the US and several other countries. In 2023, Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel, motivated by its mission to destroy the Jewish state, inspired hatred around the world, triggering a wave of antisemitic hate crimes in the US unlike any seen in recent decades.

College campuses in particular have been hubs of such hate. On Tuesday, for example, an unknown person or group graffitied a swastika, the symbol of the Nazi Party, outside the dormitory of a Jewish student at Dartmouth College — at least the second such incident at an elite US college during the early weeks of fall semester.

“This act of bigotry and targeted harassment at a person’s home will not be tolerated on our campus,” Dartmouth president Sian Beilock said in a statement, noting that both the local police force and the college’s own security department are investigating the incident. “Antisemitism has no place at Dartmouth. Acts of bigotry — and all forms of hate — are deeply hurtful and stand in direct opposition to what each of us is working so hard to create at Dartmouth. This is not who we are.”

The graffitiing of a swastika as a method of intimidation and expression of hate on the campus came as a shock to Dartmouth’s Jewish community and stands out for being perpetrated only days before Jews across the US and the world observe Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

Earlier this year, in June, a gunman murdered two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, DC, while they exited an event at the Capital Jewish Museum hosted by a major Jewish organization. The suspect charged for the double murder, 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago, yelled “Free Palestine” while being arrested by police after the shooting, according to video of the incident. The FBI affidavit supporting the criminal charges against Rodriguez stated that he told law enforcement he “did it for Gaza.”

Less than two weeks later, a man firebombed a crowd of people who were participating in a demonstration to raise awareness of the Israeli hostages who remain imprisoned by Hamas in Gaza. A victim of the attack, Karen Diamond, 82, later died, having sustained severe, fatal injuries.

Another antisemitic incident motivated by anti-Zionism occurred in San Francisco, where an assailant identified by law enforcement as Juan Diaz-Rivas and others allegedly beat up a Jewish victim in the middle of the night. Diaz-Rivas and his friends approached the victim while shouting “F—k the Jews, Free Palestine,” according to local prosecutors.

“[O]ne of them punched the victim, who fell to the ground, hit his head and lost consciousness,” the San Francisco district attorney’s office said in a statement. “Allegedly, Mr. Diaz-Rivas and others in the group continued to punch and kick the victim while he was down. A worker at a nearby business heard the altercation and antisemitic language and attempted to intervene. While trying to help the victim, he was kicked and punched.”

According to an FBI report issued last month, antisemitic hate crimes are occurring at record-setting rates. Even as hate crimes decreased overall, the report said, those perpetrated against Jews increased by 5.8 percent in 2024 to 1,938, the largest total recorded in over 30 years of the FBI’s counting them. Jewish American groups noted that this surge, which included 178 assaults, is being experienced by a demographic group which constitutes just 2 percent of the US population.

Also, a striking 69 percent of all religion-based hate crimes that were reported to the FBI in 2024 targeted Jews, with 2,041 out of 2,942 total such incidents being antisemitic in nature. Muslims were targeted the next highest amount as the victims of 256 offenses, or about 9 percent of the total.

“Jewish communities face the highest level of threat in decades, and in recent months we have seen deadly attacks our people,” Mitchell Silber, executive director of CSI-NY, said in a statement on Friday. “Our forward-deployed analysts will serve as force multipliers — bringing a focus on anticipatory, tactical information directly into the places where it’s needed most. This will not only enhance protection for the New York Jewish community but also strengthen the security of Jewish communities across the country.”

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