Anti-Semitic violence is growing across the country, experts say.
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.
In 2014, 609 anti-Jewish hate crime incidents were reported to the FBI. By 2018, the most recent year for which statistics are publicly available, that number had increased nearly 40 percent, to 835 incidents.
“While hate crimes were flat, they're getting more violent,” said Brian Levine, a professor and the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
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