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Anti-Jewish hate crimes increased by 14 percent in 2019, according to FBI report

Out of 1,650 religious-motivated hate crimes, 60.3 percent, or almost 995, were anti-Jewish.

A total of olive trees were planted in Israel to honor the memory of Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, who was shot and killed by a lone gunman on April 27, 2019 during Passover services at Chabad of Poway, Calif. Credit: Combat Anti-Semitism.
A total of olive trees were planted in Israel to honor the memory of Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, who was shot and killed by a lone gunman on April 27, 2019 during Passover services at Chabad of Poway, Calif. Credit: Combat Anti-Semitism.

Jews and the Jewish community were the most targeted demographic for hate crimes among religious groups in 2019, according to an FBI report released on Monday.

Out of the 1,650 religious-motivated hate crimes reported to the FBI, 60.3 percent, or almost 995, were anti-Jewish—a 2.5 percentage point increase from 2018.

Last year consisted of numerous anti-Semitic attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions, from a lone gunman shooting at Chabad of Poway in Southern California in April 2019 on the last day of Passover, which left a 60-year-old woman dead, to a spree of anti-Jewish incidents in the New York metropolitan area.

In 2019, anti-Semitic crimes increased 14 percent, according to the ADL.

“Victims of hate crimes can be assured that they will be provided with the appropriate assistance,” the city’s police department states.
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