{"id":123060,"date":"2025-08-06T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=123060"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:03:44","slug":"06-00-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=123060","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes Hit Record High in 2024, FBI Data Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes Hit Record High in 2024, FBI Data Shows<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Dion J. Pierre<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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FBI agents and NYPD officers work near the scene of a reported shooter situation in the Manhattan borough of New York City, US, July 28, 2025. Photo: REUTERS\/Eduardo Munoz<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Antisemitic hate crimes in the US\u00a0continued to add up to record-settin<\/strong><\/span>g<\/a>\u00a0and harrowing statistical figures in 2024, according to the latest data issued by the FBI on Tuesday, prompting calls by Jewish leaders for a society-wide intervention.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even as hate crimes decreased overall, those perpetrated against Jews increased by 5.8 percent in 2024 to 1,938, the largest total recorded in over 30 years of the FBI\u2019s counting them. Jewish American groups noted that this surge, which included 178 assaults, has been experienced by a demographic group which composes just 2 percent of the US population.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs the Jewish community is still reeling from\u00a0two deadly antisemitic attacks<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in the past few months, the record-high number of anti-Jewish hate crime incidents tracked by the FBI in 2024 is consistent with ADL\u2019s reporting and, more importantly, with the Jewish community\u2019s current lived experience,\u201d Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive officer of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), said in a statement on Tuesday. \u201cSince the Hamas-led Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, Jewish Americans have not had a moment of respite and have experienced antisemitism at K-12 school, on college campuses, in the public square, at work, and Jewish institutions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ted Deutch, chief executive officer of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), also commented, saying, \u201cLeaders of every kind \u2014 teachers, law enforcement officers, government officials, business owners, university presidents \u2014 must confront antisemitism head-on. Jews are being targeted not just out of hate, but because some wrongly believe that violence or intimidation is justified by global events.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A striking 69 percent of all religion-based hate crimes that were reported to the FBI in 2024 targeted Jews, with 2,041 out of 2,942 total such incidents being antisemitic in nature. Muslims were targeted the next highest amount as the victims of 256 offences, or about 9 percent of the total.<\/span><\/p>\n

Antisemitic hate crimes kept federal and local law enforcement agents busy throughout 2024, as previously reported by\u00a0The Algemeiner<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In November, for example, the US Department of Justice\u00a0secured the conviction<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>of a Massachusetts man, John Reardon, 59, who threatened to perpetrate mass killings of Jews. Over several months, Reardon called Jewish institutions across Massachusetts, proclaiming that he would kill Jewish men, women, and children in their houses of worship. His terroristic menacing included promises to plant bombs in synagogues in the cities of Sharon and Attleboro, as well as making 98 calls to the Israeli Consulate in Boston, a behavior which began on Oct. 7, 2023, and ended just days before his apprehension by law enforcement in January.<\/span><\/p>\n

In New York City, meanwhile, the Jewish community in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn endured a violent series of robberies and other attacks. In one instance, three masked men attempted to rob a Hasidic man after stalking him through the neighborhood. Before then, two men beat a middle-aged Hasidic man after he refused to surrender his cell phone in compliance with what appears to have been an attempted robbery. Additionally, an African American male\u00a0smacked a 13-year-old Jewish boy<\/a>\u00a0who was commuting to school on his bike in the heavily Jewish neighborhood, and less than a week earlier, an assailant\u00a0slashed a visibly Jewish man<\/a>\u00a0in the face.<\/span><\/p>\n

The wave of hatred has not relented in 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

In June, a gunman\u00a0murdered two Israeli embassy staffers<\/a>\u00a0in Washington, DC, while they exited an event at the Capital Jewish Museum hosted by the American Jewish Committee. The suspect charged for the double murder, 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago, yelled \u201cFree Palestine\u201d while being arrested by police after the shooting, according to video of the incident. The FBI affidavit supporting the criminal charges against Rodriguez stated that he told law enforcement he \u201cdid it for Gaza.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Less than two weeks later, a man\u00a0firebombed a crowd of people<\/a>\u00a0who were participating in a demonstration to raise awareness of the Israeli hostages who remain imprisoned by Hamas in Gaza. A victim of the attack, Karen Diamond, 82, later died, having sustained severe, fatal injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another antisemitic incident motivated by anti-Zionism occurred in San Francisco, where an assailant identified by law enforcement as Juan Diaz-Rivas and others allegedly beat up a Jewish victim in the middle of the night. Diaz-Rivas and his friends approached the victim while shouting \u201cF\u2014k the Jews, Free Palestine,\u201d according to local prosecutors.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[O]ne of them punched the victim, who fell to the ground, hit his head and lost consciousness,\u201d the San Francisco district attorney\u2019s office said in a statement. \u201cAllegedly, Mr. Diaz-Rivas and others in the group continued to punch and kick the victim while he was down. A worker at a nearby business heard the altercation and antisemitic language and attempted to intervene. While trying to help the victim, he was kicked and punched.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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