Incidents related to religion increased 7% from 2018, with 1,521 total incidents reported. The largest single category was anti-Semitic incidents. There were 953 anti-Semitic incidents in 2019, up 14% since 2018. Anti-Muslim incidents were the second-largest category, with 176 incidents reported. Reports of anti-Muslim incidents have decreased over the past two years, however, from 273 in 2017. Anti-Sikh incidents increased significantly over the same period, up 145% from 20 in 2017 to 49 in 2019.
So I don't see a rising trend at least over those three years for anti-semitic hate crimes, if anything it's an average decrease from 2019 (953 vs 817). It just seems 2020 was an especially low year for religion-based hate crime.
I do think it's concerning and we should absolutely do something about it, I just wanted to cut through some of the alarmism and note that this isn't likely some new wave of Nazism, it's just a typical year. That absolutely sucks for those impacted, but I don't see a trend or anything.
Colleges, 2020
I assume this data is affected by the fact that it is harder to commit a hate crime against another over zoom, too.
Perhaps. It's important to note that the data here isn't specific to college crimes though, but crimes across the whole country. COVID likely had a big impact, but murders were up in 2020, so presumably that would impact hate crimes too.
But I'm not a statistician, so I'm not sure how to interpret the data. I just personally don't see a trend here, just an unfortunate status quo.
I’m didn’t scour this article but is it sure seems to be conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
The only evidence of left wing antisemitism I see on there with a quick search is a single anecdotal quote from one Jewish person who says “The antisemitism in the classroom came from a left-wing contingent”. The incident being described seems to be someone writing “fuck isreal” on a chalkboard. Another was kicked out of a sexual assault support group for posting this on instagram:
Israel is not a ‘colonial’ state and Israelis aren’t ‘settlers.’ You cannot colonize the land your ancestors are from," Blotner wrote.
Meanwhile the right wing attacks are stuff like white nationalists literally murdering someone they thought was Jewish, and flyers with antisemitic rhetoric.
Here's the report, and an interesting excerpt:
Here is 2020 data, and a relevant excerpt:
And 2019 data:
So I don't see a rising trend at least over those three years for anti-semitic hate crimes, if anything it's an average decrease from 2019 (953 vs 817). It just seems 2020 was an especially low year for religion-based hate crime.
I do think it's concerning and we should absolutely do something about it, I just wanted to cut through some of the alarmism and note that this isn't likely some new wave of Nazism, it's just a typical year. That absolutely sucks for those impacted, but I don't see a trend or anything.
I assume this data is affected by the fact that it is harder to commit a hate crime against another over zoom, too.
Perhaps. It's important to note that the data here isn't specific to college crimes though, but crimes across the whole country. COVID likely had a big impact, but murders were up in 2020, so presumably that would impact hate crimes too.
But I'm not a statistician, so I'm not sure how to interpret the data. I just personally don't see a trend here, just an unfortunate status quo.
I’m didn’t scour this article but is it sure seems to be conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
The only evidence of left wing antisemitism I see on there with a quick search is a single anecdotal quote from one Jewish person who says “The antisemitism in the classroom came from a left-wing contingent”. The incident being described seems to be someone writing “fuck isreal” on a chalkboard. Another was kicked out of a sexual assault support group for posting this on instagram:
Meanwhile the right wing attacks are stuff like white nationalists literally murdering someone they thought was Jewish, and flyers with antisemitic rhetoric.
This article is a joke. (Fuck Isreal)