Jews targeted in 69% of religion hate crimes in 2024, 71% since October 2023, per FBI data
"Our government and leaders must take these numbers seriously and enact adequate measures to protect all Americans from the scourge of hate crimes," the ADL said of the FBI hate crime statistics.
Menachem Wecker
Of the 2,942 religion-based hate crimes that were reported to the FBI in 2024, 2,041 (69%) offenses targeted Jews, according to new data that the federal law enforcement agency released in its crime data explorer tool.
The next largest anti-religious bias type last year was the 256 offences targeting Muslims, which made up about 9% of all religion-based biased incidents. That means Jews were about 660% more likely than Muslims to be victims of anti-religious bias offenses in the United States last year.
From January 2019 until December 2024, Jews were victims of 8,376 religion-based bias offenses, or about 62% of the 13,424 religion-based bias offenses. From October 2023—the month of Hamas’s terror attack in southern Israel—until December 2024, Jews were targeted in 3,051 offenses, 71% of the 4,279 religion-based hate crimes.
Since October 2023, Muslims in America have been the targets of 395 offenses, 9% of all religion-based bias incidents.
https://www.jns.org/jews-targeted-in-69-of-religion-hate-crimes-in-2024-71-since-october-2023-per-fbi-data/
