Before shooting, anti-Semitic incidents were on the rise

NEW YORK (AP) — The shooting rampage that killed 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue is being decried as the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.
Statistics show that long before the gunfire, anti-Semitism has been on the rise in the United States.
Jews make up only about 2 percent of the U.S. population, but in annual FBI data they repeatedly account for more than half of the Americans targeted by hate crimes committed due to religious bias.
The Anti-Defamation Lea