Anti-Jewish hate crimes increased drastically last year, drawing alarm from Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev.
The FBI’s 2024 hate crime report showed a nearly 6 percent increase from 2023 in anti-Jewish hate crimes, the highest since the FBI began reporting on it in 1991.
“All Americans should be deeply troubled by the sharp increase in anti-Jewish hate crimes detailed in this report,” said Rosen, co-chair of the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, in a statement.
Reported anti-Jewish hate crime incidents rose from 1,832 in 2023 to 1,938 in 2024, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Anti-Jewish hate crimes were the second most common hate crimes, next to anti-Black hate crimes.
Jews make up around 2 percent of the U.S. population, but anti-Jewish hate crimes comprised 1