anti-semitic incidents are on the rise nationwide >> reporter: residents of a small beach down of brigantine, new jersey, woke up sunday morning to messages of hate on their doorsteps. >> i woke up that morning to several text messages, emails and phone calls. people were very, very disturbed. i can tell you the community is outraged about this. >> reporter: anti-semitic flyers from the group called the goyam defense league blaming covid, abortion, inflation, and more on jewish officials in the biden administration and media companies led by jewish owners and executives law enforcement can't do anything. it's freedom of speech in recent weeks, similar flyers were found in new york, north carolina, virginia, colorado, california, and florida among other states >> this year alone, this group, the gdl has more than tripled the number of propaganda acts targeting jews >> reporter: the anti-defamation league tracked more tha 2,500 anti-semitic incidents in the u.s. in 2021. the highest number since they began tracking 43 years ago, that includes more than 1,700 incidents of harassment, about 850