New York – The FBI says hate crimes reports were up about 17 percent in 2017, marking a rise for the third year in a row.
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An annual report shows there were more than 7,100 reported hate crimes last year. There were increases in attacks motivated by racial bias, religious bias and because of a victim’s sexual orientation.
The report, released Tuesday, shows there was a nearly 23 percent increase in religion-based hate crimes. There was a 37 percent spike in anti-Jewish hate crimes.
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker says the report is a “call to action.” He says the offenses were “despicable violations of our core values as Americans.”
The FBI says although the number of attacks has increased, so has the number of law enforcement agencies reporting hate-crime data.
Der New Fuhrer opened Pandora’s Box of hate w his first vile campaign speech. Then his Charlottesville VA nazi declaration that the torch marchers were ‘good people’. Result: hate crimes way up. The MAGA Bomber. The Pittsburgh Pogrom. He has seriously damaged security of Americans at home. Where will next hate crime be? A shtetl near you? Thank trumpf.
Make America Hate Again.
Too many Jewish people here, are ignoring the massive threat that white antisemitism poses and instead only focus on antisemitism of the left (e.g. Muslim Extremism and Black Separatists). Yet what the fail to realize, in the US, is that one group numbers in the millions the other maybe tens of thousands. Ignore White Supremacy at your own peril. Trump is fanning the flames of it and the frum are blind to it.