In startling new report, FBI reveals that of all the reported hate crimes committed in 2019 against a religious minority in America, 60% were against Jews
A new report on hate crimes released today by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has shown that 60.2% of hate crimes against a religious minority in the United States are “motivated by offenders’ anti-Jewish bias”.
Not only does this figure represent a significant majority of the 1,715 victims of anti-religious hate crimes that were reported in 2019, but given that Jews represent only around 2% of the entire population of the United States, the discrepancy is extraordinary and startling.
In light of these figures, not to mention the numerous high-profile and many lower-profile antisemitic incidents in recent years, it is vital that federal and state authorities take antisemitism seriously.
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