United States of America

ODIHR’s insights

For 2024, ODIHR received reports of 1,722 hate incidents in the United States, the vast majority of which were reported by the Anti-Defamation League. More than half of these incidents were motivated by anti-Semitism, while more than a third were racist and xenophobic. A large number of incidents involved overlapping motives of both racism and anti-Semitism.

In addition, a low number of incidents involved multiple bias motivations, including: racist and xenophobic and gender-based and anti-LGBTI, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTI, gender-based and anti-LGBTI, racist and xenophobic and anti-LGBTI, and racist and xenophobic and anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTI. Single incidents involving only an anti-Christian or only a gender-based motive were recorded, as were other multiple bias incidents. 

ODIHR observes that reported anti-Semitic incidents included physical assaults and harassment targeting visibly Jewish people, including students, families, and religious leaders, often near synagogues, schools, universities, or during public assemblies. ODIHR observes that Jewish institutions were repeatedly subjected to death and bomb threats, many of them accompanied by online messages invoking Nazism or references to the conflict in the Middle East. ODIHR further notes that synagogues, cemeteries, homes, businesses, and public spaces were widely vandalized with swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans, with numerous incidents involving the desecration of mezuzahs, menorahs, and other religious items. In addition to the incidents recorded in the tables below, ODIHR received reports of 568 incidents involving bomb threats targeting synagogues.   

ODIHR notes that the vast majority of racist and xenophobic incidents involved vandalism, with swastika and racist graffiti repeatedly defacing schools, universities, playgrounds, and other public spaces. Finally, ODIHR observes a series of homicides targeting trans women, predominantly Black and Latina.

It should be noted that ODIHR did not receive any reporting on the United States related to anti-Roma, other religion or belief, or disability hate incidents. ODIHR received a very low number of anti-Muslim, anti-Christian and gender-based incidents. This indicates potential gaps in the information reported here.

In addition, one reporting organization submitted 676 statistical incidents motivated by anti-Semitic bias, for which descriptions are not available in the tables below.