New FBI report reveals that of all reported hate crimes committed in 2020 against a religious minority in America, almost 60% were against Jews, consistent with previous year
A new report on hate crimes released this week by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has shown that 57.5% of hate crimes against a religious minority in the United States are “motivated by offenders’ anti-Jewish bias”.
Given that Jews represent only around 2% of the entire population of the United States, this figure is remarkable. It is also consistent with the figures for 2019, which showed that 60.2% of reported hate crimes motivated by religious bias were against Jews.
It is notable that these figures reflect only reported hate crimes; many antisemitic crimes, however, go unreported. Moreover, the FBI only records hate crimes against Jews as motivated by religious bias rather than racial or ethnic bias.
In light of these figures, it is vital that federal and state authorities take antisemitism seriously, particularly given the surge in antisemitic hate in 2021.
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