{"id":11094,"date":"2025-08-05T17:24:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/?p=11094"},"modified":"2025-08-05T17:29:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:29:02","slug":"jcpa-2024-hate-crimes-data-underscores-crisis-of-hate-and-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/press-release\/jcpa-2024-hate-crimes-data-underscores-crisis-of-hate-and-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"JCPA: 2024 Hate Crimes Data Underscores Crisis of Hate and Extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to the FBI\u2019s release of its 2024 Hate Crimes Statistics report, <\/span><\/i>Amy Spitalnick<\/span><\/i><\/a>, CEO of the <\/span><\/i>Jewish Council for Public Affairs<\/span><\/i><\/a>, released the following statement:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cThe 2024 hate crimes data underscores what communities across the country already know: we\u2019re facing a crisis of hate and extremism that threatens all of us and the core of our democracy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While marking a slight decrease from 2023 \u2013 and reflecting the chronic underreporting inherent in this data – the 2024 statistics mark the second highest number of annual hate crimes on record since the FBI began reporting this information in 1991.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Single-bias anti-Jewish hate crimes comprised 16% of all reported hate crimes and the vast majority (70%) of religion-based incidents in 2024, affirming the real fears and concerns felt in the Jewish community in recent years. This antisemitic hate and violence is coming from all directions: hate crimes targeting visibly-Jewish people walking down the street; increasingly-violent antisemitism targeting Jews because of our real or perceived relationship with Israel, under the guise of protesting the Israeli government\u2019s actions; white supremacist and neo-Nazi extremism that has become normalized over the last decade; and broader, harder to quantify, efforts to marginalize, isolate, and discriminate against Jews in certain spaces.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We also know that the Jewish community is not alone in our fear. This data underscores that so many others – including the Black, Latino, Asian, Muslim, Sikh, LGBTQ+, and other communities – are also facing frightening levels of hate and violence, as bigotry and dehumanization become more and more pervasive on social media, in our politics, and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our communities\u2019 safety is inextricably linked \u2013 there is no inclusive democracy without Jewish safety, and no Jewish safety without inclusive democracy. None of us are safe until we truly treat rising hate and extremism – in all its forms – with the seriousness it deserves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet the current administration has terminated or frozen some of the very programs that are critical to protecting Jewish and other faith institutions and to preventing hate crimes in the first place, including:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n