Antisemitic crimes increase by 60% in LA over the last year
Between 2018 and 2019, there was a 60% increase in antisemitic hate crimes
By OMRI RONPeople attend a national gathering to protest antisemitism and the rise of anti-Semitic attacks in the Place de la Republique in Paris.(photo credit: GONZALO FUENTES / REUTERS)
Between 2018 and 2019, there was a 60% increase in antisemitic hate crimes according to data released by the Los Angeles Police Department, JNS reported.Out of the total 81 hate crimes reported against religious groups, 69 of them targeted Jews, as opposed to the 43 out of 52 which took place last year. This marks a 60.5% increase in antisemitic hate crimes targeting the 500,000 Jews residing in Los Angeles, according to Brandeis’ Steinhardt Social Research Institute.Only five hate crimes were reported to have targeted Muslims, as opposed to two in 2018. Other religions not listed had a total of four reported hate crimes.The report comes after a year plagued by antisemitic attacks on Jewish communities around the world.During a Hanukkah party at a rabbi's home in Monsey, a man stabbed five people. On Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, a gunman killed two people, one near a synagogue and another in a kebab shop in Halle, German.In April, one woman was killed and three people were wounded in a shooting at the Chabad of Poway synagogue, which is near San Diego.
