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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