JEWS SINGLE-MOST TARGETED GROUP: TORONTO HATE CRIMES REPORT

[MosheFeingold]

3. Just one bit of data

The US numbers are even worse for the last ~20 or so years.

I'm mangling the stats by going on memory, but it's about 1/4 US Jews will experience a material hate crime some time during their lives.

And I'm not talking about the hard shoulder with a hissed "Joooooo" I'd get on a weekly basis in the DC subway. I'm talking about a beating, serious property damage, or the like.

We had our door kicked in 1991 in Crown Heights with a group of youths looking for trouble --- along with many houses that had a mezzuzah by the front door. (This is why I don't think Al Sharpton has a viable role in Progressive politics -- he has apologized, but he was very much an instigator of the violence.)

If you correct the stats on a per capita basis, Jewish people routinely bear the brunt of the majority of hate crimes throughout the Western World (and certainly in less Western states).

I suspect the numbers would be even more, but we Orthodox (esp. Haredim) tend not to talk to police and we are the most obviously Jewish to an outside observer. So we under report.

Heck, in 1991, we just replaced our door with a metal one and carved a slot in the door frame for the Mezzah, so it didn't stick out.

Then we went on with our lives. The police were useless.