Hate Crimes
“It’s the same thing if you asked me to be led by someone who openly hates black people or hates Asian people or a member of the KKK,” James Mai told JNS.
Prosecutors said that fingerprint, surveillance footage and key-card records link the suspect to more than 20 threatening campus messages.
The Jewish community in Indiana rallied outside the Zionsville home, after a fire caused more than $150,000 in damage.
Richard John Franklin, 65, is accused of making the threat in the office of a state representative, where he went to address an issue related to “outstanding taxes.”
Syeda Khatun was convicted of racially aggravated assault and harassment after verbally abusing children and striking a father.
A state report finding Jews were targets of three-quarters of hate crimes in California in 2025 “should be a gut-check for our entire society,” Nathan Hochman told JNS.
Jews have been targets of about 15% of religion-based hate crimes since Jan. 1, compared to 2% each for Sikhs and Muslims, and 1% for Arabs.
Visitors described dozens surrounding, spitting at and threatening them for 90 minutes after they left a synagogue following Shabbat services.
Police arrested men who aimed an imitation weapon toward the house of worship from an SUV on Shabbat.
The assailant swung a parking pylon at the victim, yelling that Jews are “baby killers committing genocide.”
The city mayor said at a press conference that the Big Apple is having its “safest start to any year on record.”
“These cannot become just another set of statistics,” Rick Chavez Zbur, a member of the state Assembly, told JNS. “They must serve as a call to action.”
Although Jews make up an estimated 3.25% of California residents, anti-Jewish hate crimes made up almost 14.8% of all hate crimes in the state last year.
