FBI says anti-Jewish hate crimes across US hit record high in 2024

[Beastly Boy]

Crimes against Jews accounted for 69% of a total of 2,783 religiously motivated incidents, the data indicated. Jews represent approximately 2% of the US population. Religiously motivated hate crime incidents rose 3.1% year-over-year, with incidents targeting Jews rising at a faster pace than the national average.

Hate crimes against Jews accounted for 16% of all reported hate crimes in the United States in 2024, and nearly 70% of religion-based hate crimes, according to FBI data. Anti-Jewish hate crimes rose 5.8% to a record 1,938 incidents, while the total number of hate crimes in the US during the year, 11,679, dropped slightly from 2023 (11,862), the report showed.

The number of antisemitic incidents translates to more than five anti-Jewish hate crimes per day. Among these incidents were terror attacks, assault, vandalism, harassment, burglary, false bomb threats, and more.

There were 2,237 Jewish victims of hate crimes and 1,043 known offenders, the report showed.

The rise “is consistent with ADL’s reporting and, more importantly, with the Jewish community’s current lived experience,” said Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt in a statement about the report. “Our government and leaders must take these numbers seriously and enact adequate measures to protect all Americans from the scourge of hate crimes.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/fbi-says-anti-jewish-hate-crimes-across-us-hit-record-high-in-2024/

[Cha]

1. I believe it.. Fucking Anti-Semitics are

Vicious Violent Assholes.

[yardwork]

2. It's fashionable and hip to be mean to Jewish people now.

[Oopsie Daisy]

21. It's what all the cool kids do...

... and other assorted online bullies.

[Cha]

34. When the opposite is true... it shows

lack of a moral center and major cases of Dumbass

[BlueTsunami2018]

3. We do have open Nazis running around now.

We should have banned fascism completely after WWII.

[Beastly Boy]

11. We should have banned antisemitism a hell of a lot earlier

[lapucelle]

16. Permission structures have been established and are firmly in place,

even in the unlikeliest of places.

Some folks turn a blind eye, and others keep telling on themselves.

[Beastly Boy]

17. I miss the formerly unlikely place.

[rickford66]

4. Leveling Gaza doesn't help.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. That didn't take long

About 20 minutes.

Please explain the connection.

[rickford66]

7. It's a convienient excuse to hate Jews.

Time me again.

[Beastly Boy]

10. What was the convenient excuse before Oct. 6?

Or ten years ago?

Or fifty tears ago?

Or five hundred years ago?

...the clock is ticking...

[FHRRK]

14. I will try, as a person who tries damn hard to support everyone's religious beliefs

There were many Catholics upset at the heat they were taking over the Church's defense, more so, ignoring the blatant abuses being covered up. Those people, no matter how moral they were, couldn't understand why so many were not happy with their religious leaders.

In the case of Israel, Netanyahu is also immoral. Many incorrectly label him as the leader of the Jews. With that, many condemn all Jews as those same people condemned all Catholics.

With that, in my humble opinion, both groups should strongly condemn those who don't follow the teachings of their religion. Case closed, we are all working together for the same common good.

So, now that I have pissed off many Catholics and Jews, I will cut my losses, because you don't want to get me started on Baptists and Evangelicals.

But I waded into this because I believe that the vast majority of Catholics and Jews are good people. But defending the indefensible, is not a good look. I can't say the same about some other religions.

Again, don't shoot the messenger, you wanted a connection, agree or disagree, I don't care, just trying to give you a connection from an Atheist/Agnostic perspective.

[lapucelle]

19. That analogy does not obtain.

I don't know anyone who sees Netanyahu as the "leader of the Jews".

Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel and the leader of a right wing political party. He is a corrupt politician. He doesn't represent all Jewish people globally or hold single leadership position over Judaism as a religion or Jews as an ethnic group. He is not even a cleric.

The premise that Netanyahu is the "leader of the Jews" is as absurd on its face as saying Ali Khamenei is the "leader of the Muslims".

Anti-Semites used to at least make an effort of hiding behind the fig leaf of "I'm not an anti-Semite; I'm an anti-Zionist".

The FBI statistics on hate crimes in America show that anti-Semites are so emboldened that they are not even bothering with that charade anymore.

[lapucelle]

25. The prime minister of Israel is not the "leader of the Jews".

It is not true that the prime minister of Israel is "the closest thing to a leader that Jews can have".

[cadoman]

26. great point made more effective through repetition

Unfortunately, it's not landing.

[lapucelle]

30. If there are folks who want to insist that the prime minister of Israel

is to world-wide Jews what the Pope is to world-wide Catholics, they are free to do so.

It doesn't make it any truer or any less absurd.

[yardwork]

27. That is false.

American Jews don't consider Israel to be "the Jewish nation state." They live in the United States for a reason.

Netanyahu is no more "the Jewish leader" than Trump is "the Christian leader."

And there haven't been waves of anti-Catholic hate crimes in recent years. Certainly not as a result of Catholic Church abuses coming to light. I can't think of a single one.

[lapucelle]

33. So, just to recap...

... tonight's claims are that...

The prime minister of Israel is the leader of world-wide Jews in the same way that the Pope is the leader of world-wide Catholics.

and

The reason there was no rise in anti-Catholic hate crimes statistics after the abuse scandal is because Catholics don't report vandalism to the FBI in the same way that Jews (and local police) report bomb threats, shootings, and attacks by anti-Semites with home-made flame throwers to the FBI.

[madaboutharry]

35. It is exhausting, isn't it?

At this point trying to explain antisemitism and Jew hate is like talking into the wind.

P..S. Love you lapucelle. And you too, yardwork.

[lapucelle]

36. ...

[FHRRK]

39. Bull fucking shit!

Read what I posted again.

[lapucelle]

40. Someone appropriated your theme in a subthread.

The post is addressing his claims.

[FHRRK]

41. The correct response is

Someone incorrectly appropriated my claim.

And to be blunt, that is a very Republican thing to do. And I hold Repubs in the same esteem as the fake Evangelicals.

[lapucelle]

42. So you were aware that my response was in a subthread that nothing to do with you?

Interesting.

[FHRRK]

43. Once again

Read it again

But then again, forget it, done.

[FHRRK]

38. See my original response

In the case of Israel, Netanyahu is also immoral. Many incorrectly label him as the leader of the Jews.

So I sure will not try to defend the ignorance of the general population and kudos to you for calling out Bibi.

With that, just trying to figure out what drives the ignorance.

Do I think anti Catholic is equal to anti Jews, hell no. But I have heard some amazingly ignorant stuff from evangelicals against Catholics.

[lapucelle]

8. American Jews didn't do anything to Gaza.

The FBI report concerns a rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes committed in the US against American Jews.

[rickford66]

12. If someone hates Jews, it doesn't matter where they are from.

[lapucelle]

13. So the horseshoe left always hated Jews in general, but now has a "convenient excuse"

to target Jews in general "because Gaza"?

Good to know.

[rickford66]

15. So what will end it?

[Beastly Boy]

18. Apparently, nothing.

It has been established, beyond any doubt, that there is no politically or physically safe space for the Jews.

[rickford66]

20. There's a couple things I don't understand among a million other things.

Trump gets all the praise in Isreal yet has a party of NAZI's. The religious right gets the same praise in Isreal, while their goal is the ultimate destruction of Isreal.

[Beastly Boy]

23. They value their dogma more than their well-being.

It's ridiculous, but once you fall into this routine, it's hard to let go. You will have to admit to yourself that you have been ridiculous for some part of your life.

[cabotnn22]

32. Which illustrates why Israel is needed as a Jewish state n/t

[yardwork]

9. And...? Many Jewish people are protesting Israel's actions.

[cabotnn22]

31. And here we go

Another fan of collective punishment - or is it just Jewish people to whom you hold those standards?

[lapucelle]

5. NYT Editorial Board: Anti-Semitism also has a home on the progressive left

Antisemitism Is an Urgent Problem. Too Many People Are Making Excuses.

[Anti-Semitism] also has a home on the progressive left, and the bipartisan nature of the problem has helped make it distinct. Progressives reject many other forms of hate even as some tolerate antisemitism. College campuses, where Jewish students can face social ostracization, have become the clearest example. A decade ago, members of the student government at U.C.L.A. debated blocking a Jewish student from a leadership post, claiming that she might not be able to represent the entire community. In 2018, spray-painted swastikas appeared on walls at Columbia. At Baruch, Drexel and the University of Pittsburgh, activists have recently called for administrators to cut ties with or close Hillel groups, which support Jewish life. In a national survey by Eitan Hersh of Tufts University and Dahlia Lyss, college students who identified as liberal were more likely than either moderates or conservatives last year to say that they “avoid Jews because of their views.”

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Consider the double standard that leads to a fixation on Israel’s human rights record and little campus activism about the records of China, Russia, Sudan, Venezuela or almost any other country. Consider how often left-leaning groups suggest that the world’s one Jewish state should not exist and express admiration for Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis — Iran-backed terrorist groups that brag about murdering Jews. Consider how often people use “Zionist” as a slur — an echo of Soviet propaganda from the Cold War — and call for the exclusion of Zionists from public spaces. The definition of a Zionist is somebody who supports the existence of Israel.

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Historical comparisons can also be instructive. The period since Oct. 7, 2023, is hardly the first time that global events have contributed to a surge in hate crimes against a specific group. [...] Recent experience has been different in a couple of ways. One, the attacks against Jews have been even more numerous and violent, as the F.B.I. data shows. Two, the condemnation has been quieter and at times tellingly agonized. University leaders have often felt uncomfortable decrying antisemitism without also decrying Islamophobia. Islamophobia, to be clear, is a real problem that deserves attention on its own. Yet antisemitism seems to be a rare type of bigotry that some intellectuals are uncomfortable rebuking without caveat. After the Sept. 11 attacks, they did not feel the need to rebuke both Islamophobia and antisemitism. Nor should they have. People should be able to denounce a growing form of hatred without ritually denouncing other forms.

Alarmingly, the antisemitic rhetoric of both the political right and the left has filtered into justifications for violence. But there has been an asymmetry in recognizing the connections. After a gunman murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, observers correctly noted that he had become radicalized partly through racist right-wing social media. There has been a similar phenomenon in some recent attacks, this time with the assailants using the language of the left.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/opinion/antisemitism-jewish-hate.html

No paywall:
https://archive.md/trPMT

[surfered]

22. When criticizing the invasion of Ukraine, I never blame Russia. I always say Putin.

That can apply to Gaza.

[yardwork]

29. Many of the same people criticizing Israel actually praise Putin.

It's quite a common occurrence in some circles.

[sarisataka]

37. Have to stop saying ... but Israel

It obviously has morphed into…because Israel.
It is no longer an attempt to deflect but to justify…