Hate crimes

The analysis released by California State University this month examined hate crimes in 16 of America’s largest cities. It revealed that while such crimes in 2020 decreased overall by 7 percent, those targeting Asian people rose by nearly 150 percent. The reason given is that Trump called the virus the China virus. These crimes more than doubled from 2019 to 2020, increasing from 49 to 122. The rash of anti-Semitic attacks gripping the New York-New Jersey area may feel like chilling coincidences, but statistics show they’re part of a wave of anti-Semitic violence that has risen across the country over the past half-decade. There were 835 instances in 2020. While the news about the Asians is on every network, the news about the Jews is no where to be found. Hate crimes in the US rose to the highest level in more than a decade last year, according to an FBI report. This includes a 14% increase in crimes against Jews. There are 7 million Jews in the US and 17 million Asian Americans in the US.