(Jewish Group) Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes Are Becoming More Violent
Hate crimes, including anti-Semitic ones, were more violent in 2018, with assaults targeting Jews at an all-time high, according to the FBI’s annual hate crime report, released Tuesday.
In general, assaults and other violent attacks based on bias reached a 16-year high, although the total number of bias-motivated incidents — a broader category that includes things like vandalism — was down slightly in 2018 from the previous year.
The data indicates that the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history — the synagogue shooting on Shabbat in Pittsburgh that killed 11 worshippers in October, 2018 — was not an outlier. Rather, it’s an example of a broader phenomenon of growing anti-Semitic violence, includes an ongoing spate of assaults on visibly Jewish men in Brooklyn.
“I think we have a leaner, meaner type of hate crime going on,” Professor Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, told the Forward.
The FBI data tracks with the most recent report from the Anti-Defamation League. Both showed a sharp increase in violent anti-Jewish acts from 2017 to 2018 but a nearly 20% decline in anti-Semitic vandalism, like the scrawling of a swastika on a school wall.
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The FBI Hate Crimes stats just came out yesterday. Once again, Jews came out on top in regards to numbers of hate crimes against us in the category of "Religion"; There were 1,419 incidents of anti-religious bias, of that 835 were against Jews (58.8%), Muslims followed with 188 crimes against them (13.2%). Overall, there were 7,120 hate crimes meaning Jews, who are 2.2% of the US population, were 11.7% of all victims.
In the near future, I am planning (fingers crossed) to do a breakdown of the history of hate crimes against Jews according to FBI stats.
BTW, the three top victims groups...African-Americans, Jews, and gay men...in that order.
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