FBI Says Violence Against Jews Is in Decline. Jews Aren’t Buying It.

Along with a Department of Defense which has identified America's greatest national security threat as "climate change," we have an FBI that has identified "white supremacy" and other forms of so-called "far right extremism" as the chief threats to domestic peace and tranquility.

All well and good, until you realize who gets to do the defining of those terms. The fact is that if you were to count all the avowed racist/white supremacists in this nation, be they Aryan Brotherhood or the KKK, you're looking at probably a number barely hitting 12-15,000. That's in a nation of about 330 MILLION. So, in essence a non-existent nothing-burger, statistically speaking.

But, when you start defining parents raising their voices at school board meetings who object to CRT and transexual indoctrination, along with anyone who objects to vaccine mandates, or the stolen elections of 2020, the FBI suddenly has a target rich environment.

Yet, with anti-Semitism on the rise, the FBI doesn't seem to want to talk about it. In fact, they're going to great lengths to cover it up.

The FBI’s latest annual report shows a decline in violence against Jews, findings that are at odds with Jewish watchdog groups who say anti-Semitic hate crimes have hit their highest levels in history during the past two years.

The FBI’s 2021 findings, released at the end of last year, have sparked accusations the federal law enforcement agency is deflating these statistics at a time when the American Jewish community is facing an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism. At least one watchdog group is calling on Congress to investigate how and why the FBI underreported anti-Jewish hate crimes.

"At a time of record anti-Semitic hate crimes, it is appalling that the FBI's data-gathering has been so badly botched," said Kenneth L. Marcus, chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a watchdog group that combats Jew hatred. "This massive failure has undermined the purposes of hate crimes data precisely when we most need the data. If the FBI doesn't quickly correct this problem, congressional committees will need to ask some serious questions."

Marcus said the FBI’s 2021 statistics on hate crimes against Jews are "essentially useless" due to new reporting procedures that omitted statistics from organizations typically included in the federal agency’s yearly assessment. While the FBI claimed that violence against Jews decreased last year, groups such as the Anti-Defamation League reported that 2021 saw the highest levels of anti-Semitic violence on record. A report from the AMCHA Initiative, a Jewish advocacy group, last year found that assaults on Jewish students and their identities doubled in the 2021 and 2022 academic year.

Marcus, an attorney and former staff director of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, said the FBI’s inaccurate reporting is likely to prompt congressional oversight.

Gee, you'd think with all those rabid ultra-MAGA white supremacists around - especially Trump who's got the best cover: Jewish kids and grandkids - the FBI would be rounding up Klansmen by the bushel. Unless of course, it's the other kind of "white supremacy" that's responsible for the knockout games:

Americans Against Antisemitism (AAA) released a report revealing that 97% of hate crimes against Jews in New York between 2018 and 2022 were committed by other minority groups.

AAA’s report was first posted on AAA founder Dov Hikind’s Twitter account Wednesday. The report documented 194 cases of assault against Jews from April 2018 to August 2022, and, in 99 of those assaults, official reports included the ethnicity of the perpetrator revealing 97% were committed by other minorities.

Black perpetrators were responsible for 69% of physical or verbal assaults, Asians made up 17%, Hispanics accounted for 11% and white attackers committed 3%. . .

“[T]his report is focused entirely on the subset of assault (verbal and physical) as a hate crime. This is an important distinction because very often the wild stats on anti-Jewish hate crimes are often downplayed as ‘mostly against property,’ so it is important to quantify the extent of anti-Jewish assaults on persons which shows that even when controlling for crimes against property the number of attacks on Jewish persons remains the highest of all target groups,” Bitton explained. . .

. . . “[I]t’s the first study to examine how hate crime violence can be disproportionately affecting a particular subset of a target group and thus it’s the first data to support what has only been suspected anecdotally which is that Orthodox Jews bear the disproportionate share of antisemitic violence,” Bitton noted

Even more concerning was the low number of convictions: Only two criminals were given prison sentences and less than 10 were convicted. Bitton also pointed out the importance of where the crimes occurred, stating that normally victims are attacked when they are the minority in a particular area, but the report demonstrates that Jews are most often attacked in their own neighborhoods.

I guess the mystery is solved.

posted by J.J. Sefton at 02:40 PM

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