Mark Schulte wrote in his Jan. 7 Newsmax column:
The Anti-Defamation League has tallied an incomplete 2,707 antisemitic incidents in America in 2025.
These crimes are only 29% of the abominable 9,354 that the ADL compiled in 2024, the last year of Joe Biden’s catastrophic presidency.
This spectacular decline is an unrecognized major accomplishment in the first year of President Donald Trump’ s incredibly successful second term.
Except that doesn’t appear to be true. As the ADL itself wrote in December:
The attacks on October 7, 2023, and their aftermath have profoundly reshaped Jewish American life. This joint report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Jewish Federations of North America draws on two large, nationally representative surveys of Jewish Americans conducted earlier this year to illustrate the complex dynamics affecting them. The findings highlight both the widespread effects of antisemitism and the remarkable resilience of Jewish communities.
The American Jewish Committee similarly stated:
The vast majority of American Jews feel less safe due to violent antisemitic incidents in America in 2025. Most American Jews believe that, since October 7, antisemitism has increased in the United States and that Jews are less secure than the previous year. About one in three were the personal target of antisemitism, and over half of American Jews changed their behavior in at least one way out of fear of antisemitism. Among the U.S. general public, there is overall awareness of antisemitism as a problem, while over four in 10 has personally seen or heard antisemitism in 2025.
It’s not just here. The Combat Antisemitism Movement found that anti-Semitic incidents in Germany in November alone increased 172 percent following an incident in which “a crazed man in Hanau who painted 50 Nazi swastikas across the city with his blood.”
But Schulte is simply too eager to credit Trump for a nonexistent drop in anti-Semitic incidents, while still blaming such incidents in Democrats:
On Jan. 30, 2025, just 10 days after being sworn-in by Chief Justice John Roberts, President Trump issued Executive Order 14188, “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism.”
It revivified and expanded the president’s Executive Order 13899 in December 2019, which committed his administration to battling the rise of antisemitism since 2013, “in the United States and around the world.”
[…]After taking office in January 2021, President Biden had unconscionably discarded his predecessor’s landmark executive order, and there were 3,698 antisemitic incidents in 2022, or a humongous 83% increase from the 2,026 in 2020.
Unsurprisingly in 2025, of the incomplete 2,707 incidents, 1,577, or an egregiously disproportionate 58%, occurred in eight Democratic trifecta states (governorship and both legislative branches.)
New York ignominiously leads with 615 offensives, or 23% of America’s total.
[…]In stark contrast, nine Republican trifecta states have a miniscule 370 antisemitic crimes in 2025, or also 14% of the nation’s total.
Schulte concluded by telling Trump to brag about this nonexistent achievement:
In the run-up to the congressional and gubernatorial elections in November, the Trump administration and Republicans must relentlessly highlight their many successes in battling antisemitism during the last tumultuous decade, compared to the Democrats’ despicable systemic failures
Funny how only Democrats suffer from “systemic failures.”