The number of anti-Jewish incidents in Colorado increased last year for the first time in three years, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Colorado ranks eighth for the most anti-Semitic incidents among 40 states and the District of Columbia, which were audited last year by the ADL.
Incidents in Colorado reported to the ADL in 2007 include acts of vandalism to public and private property and acts of harassment in the workplace, neighborhoods and schools.
The incidents include an October assault of a Jewish man in Boulder by two men who were charged with misdemeanor third-degree assault and a bias-motivated crime, a felony, according to the ADL. Thirty incidents in Colorado in 2007 were reported to the ADL — 16 acts of harassment, 12 acts of vandalism and two that were a combination of harassment and vandalism. In 2006, a total of 22 anti-Jewish incidents were reported to the ADL in Colorado.
