FBI 2015 Report: Over half of Hate Crimes are Anti-Jewish

The common narrative used by the media is that most religious hate crimes are against Muslims. The most recent FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division report dispels that narrative.

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program collects data about both single-bias and multiple-bias hate crimes. For each offense type reported, law enforcement must indicate at least one bias motivation. A single-bias incident is defined as an incident in which one or more offense types are motivated by the same bias. As of 2013, a multiple-bias incident is defined as an incident in which one or more offense types are motivated by two or more biases.

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According to the FBI data, hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,354 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-biased offenses showed:

• 51.3 percent were anti-Jewish.

• 22.2 percent were anti-Islamic (Muslim).

• 4.4 percent were anti-Catholic.

• 4.2 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.

• 3.7 percent were Anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other).

• 3.5 percent were anti-Protestant.

• 1.3 percent were anti-Other Christian.

• 0.6 percent were Anti-Mormon

• 0.4 percent (6 offenses) were Anti-Sikh.

• 0.4 percent (5 offenses) were Anti-Hindu.

• 0.1 percent (2 offenses) were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

• 0.1 percent (1 offense) were Anti-Buddhist.

• 0.1 percent (1 offense) were Anti-Jehovah’s Witness.

• 7.7 percent were anti-other (unspecified) religion.

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