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FBI: Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes Rose by 14% in 2019
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THE NUMBER OF anti-
Semitic hate crimes in the
United States increased signifi -
cantly in 2019, according to the
FBI, in a year that saw three
lethal attacks against Jews.

Anti-Semitic incidents again
comprised the majority of hate
crimes based on religion. In
addition, the number of hate
crime murders overall more
than doubled nationwide last
year. that sparked fear and anxiety
among American Jews. A
synagogue shooting in Poway,
California, killed one person
exactly six months aft er the
October 2018 synagogue
shooting in Pittsburgh in
which 11 Jews were murdered.

In December, a shooting in
Jersey City, New Jersey, that
ended at a kosher supermarket
killed two Jews and two others.

Later that month, a stabbing at
a Hanukkah party in Monsey,
New York, killed one. Th e New
York-area attacks came amid
a spate of anti-Semitic harass-
political allegiances. .

“No one person is respon-
sible for anti-Semitism,” he said.

“Th ere are those who want to
pin this all on President Trump.

I think that’s wrong. No one
was wearing MAGA hats in
Brooklyn last December when
we saw a wave of assaults.”
Th e string of attacks last
year came amid what the ADL
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unmistakable. ... In 2019 we saw a 14% increase
in anti-Jewish hate crimes.”
JEWISHEXPONENT.COM ment and assaults in Orthodox
neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

“Th e surge of hate in the
last few years is unmistak-
able,” Jonathan Greenblatt,
the CEO of the ADL, told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency on
Monday. “We’ve been talking
about our anxiety about the
normalization of anti-Sem-
itism, and sure enough in
2019 we saw a 14% increase in
anti-Jewish hate crimes.”
Greenblatt said the anti-
Semitic attacks of last year show
that Jew-hatred transcends
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But the Anti-Defamation
League cautioned that the FBI’s
numbers probably represent just
a fraction of total hate crimes
committed in the country.

Th e FBI recorded 953 hate
crimes against Jews in 2019,
a 14% increase from the 835
recorded in 2018 and similar
to the 938 in 2017. In 2019, hate
crimes against Jews comprised
62% of all hate crimes based on
religion, up from 58% in both
of the previous two years.

Last year saw a series of
lethal anti-Semitic attacks
number in 40 years (though its
criteria diff er from the FBI and
the Jewish anti-bigotry agency
has recorded a higher number
of anti-Semitic incidents over
the years).

Th e FBI recorded 7,314 total
hate crimes last year, a slight
increase over 2018 and 2017, but
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has described as a years-long
rise in anti-Semitic activity.

Just days aft er 2020 began,
25,000 people marched across
the Brooklyn Bridge to protest
anti-Semitism in New York
City and elsewhere.

Earlier this year, the ADL
found, similarly to the FBI,
that anti-Semitic incidents rose
by 12% in 2019 to their highest
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