{"id":2053,"date":"2020-01-17T17:29:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2020-01-17T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T17:29:13","slug":"are-we-experiencing-a-nationwide-anti-semitism-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"Are We Experiencing a Nationwide &#8216;Anti-Semitism Crisis&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;According to the New York Police Department, reports of hate crimes against Jews in that city&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/news\/pr0106\/overall-crime-new-york-city-hits-record-low-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rose<\/a>&nbsp;26 percent last year, from 186 in 2018 to 234 in 2019, after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/stats\/reports-analysis\/hate-crimes.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rising<\/a>&nbsp;nearly as much (23 percent) in the previous year. According to Brian Levin, director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/csbs.csusb.edu\/hate-and-extremism-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism<\/a>&nbsp;at California State University, San Bernardino, the 2019 total was the highest seen in New York City since the FBI began reporting hate crime data in 1992.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nationwide, however, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/services\/cjis\/ucr\/publications#Hate-Crime%20Statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBI&#8217;s tally<\/a>&nbsp;indicates that the number of anti-Jewish criminal incidents (each of which may include more than one offense) fell from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ucr.fbi.gov\/hate-crime\/2017\/topic-pages\/tables\/table-1.xls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">938<\/a>&nbsp;in 2017 to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ucr.fbi.gov\/hate-crime\/2018\/topic-pages\/tables\/table-1.xls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">835<\/a>&nbsp;in 2018\u2014an 11 percent drop. The total in 2018, the most recent year for which national data are available, was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/csbs.csusb.edu\/sites\/csusb_csbs\/files\/CSHE%20DRAFT%20Dec%2030.docx.pdf#page=9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lower<\/a>&nbsp;than the totals in 21 out of the previous 26 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Wlei2v3l3S\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/01\/08\/are-we-experiencing-a-nationwide-anti-semitism-crisis\/\">Are We Experiencing a Nationwide &#8216;Anti-Semitism Crisis&#8217;?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Are We Experiencing a Nationwide &#039;Anti-Semitism Crisis&#039;?&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/01\/08\/are-we-experiencing-a-nationwide-anti-semitism-crisis\/embed\/#?secret=rXsuHoFFPv#?secret=Wlei2v3l3S\" data-secret=\"Wlei2v3l3S\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;According to the New York Police Department, reports of hate crimes against Jews in that city rose 26 percent last year, from 186 in 2018 to 234 in 2019, after rising nearly as much (23 percent) in the previous year. According to Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, the 2019 total was the highest seen in New York City since the FBI began reporting hate crime data in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, however, the FBI&#8217;s tally indicates that the number of anti-Jewish criminal incidents (each of which may include more than one offense) fell from 938 in 2017 to 835 in 2018\u2014an 11 percent drop. The total in 2018, the most recent year for which national data are available, was lower than the totals in 21 out of the previous 26 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[298,299,301,300],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-anti-semitism","tag-crime-statistics","tag-hate-crimes","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}