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Hate Crime

NEW YORK - The incidence of hate crimes in the United States may not be rising, but religion-based hate crimes overwhelmingly are directed against Jews and Jewish institutions.

Those were some findings of the FBI's Hate Crimes Statistics 2003, Nov. 22. The survey documents 927 anti-Jewish crimes last year - most of them classified as intimidation - comprising more than 12 percent of al hate crimes reported in America.

"In the total number of crimes under the religion category, the anti-Jewish crimes are higher than all the others - and have been each year," FBI spokesman Paul Bresson told JTA.

This, said Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman, comes despite the perception that, since 9/11, anti-Muslim attacks have been in the ascendance.

"There's a feeling that there's a lot of Islamophobia out there," Foxman said. "While there is, anti-Jewish hate crimes predominate."

The 166-page report documented more than 1,300 religion-based hate incidents in......


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