The FBI’s Hate Crime Statistics relies on law enforcement agencies to voluntarily submit data. Still, he cautioned that the report is only one data point. “You see numbers like this or worse in European countries like in France, where hate-crimes against Jews are way out of proportion to the population of Jews in France, about 500,000 people,” he added. “The fact that such a small percentage of the population has such a large percentage of hate crime incidents, that should be worrying for all of us,” said Ira Forman, former State Department anti-Semitism envoy from 2013 to 2017 and now senior adviser on anti-Semitism to Human Rights First. Mostly that is a result of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh last October in which 11 Jews were killed by an alleged anti-Semitic shooter. There were 24 hate crime murders in 2018, the highest since the FBI began tracking and reporting on hate crimes in 1991. (Sexual orientation bias accounted for 16.9% of hate crimes.) Religious-based hate crimes were the second-largest category after race and accounted for nearly one in five (18.6%) of all single-bias incidents. Nearly 50% of race-based hate crimes were directed against African Americans. Race-based hate crimes were the most common type of hate crime, the report found. Specifically, Greenblatt proposed Congress pass the Khalid Jabara and Heather Heyer National Opposition to Hate, Assault, and Threats to Equality (NO HATE) Act, a bill that would promote more accurate hate crime data collection and assist hate crime victims and their communities. “It is unacceptable that Jews and Jewish institutions continue to be at the center of religion-based hate crime attacks,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, which publishes its own annual “Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents.” “We need to take concrete action to address and combat this significant problem.” Overall, religion-based hate crimes decreased by 8% from 2017. Anti-Sikh hate crimes accounted for 4.1% of the total. Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,550 offenses, and the majority of those - 57.8% - were anti-Jewish.īy comparison, anti-Muslim hate crimes accounted for 14.5% - the second-largest target of religious hate. The 2018 Hate Crime Statistics reported 7,120 total hate crimes last year, compared to 7,175 in 2017, a decline of less than 1%. (RNS) - Newly released FBI data shows that Jews and Jewish institutions were the overwhelming target of religion-based hate crimes in the United States last year.
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