Tim Knowles
2 min readDec 23, 2024

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I did a little bit of research myself.

Your source focused on how likely a demographic was victimized as opposed to how often a demographic was victimized. Of course, the media will be reporting more on the more frequent event. If every hate crime got equal reporting, then antisemitic hate crimes would be less reported not more. Antisemitic hate crimes get more media attention per incident than anti-black hate crimes. Anti-LBGTQ+ hate crimes get more media attention per incident than either Antisemitic or Anti-black hate crimes.

Hate crimes get more media attention of someone is killed or severely injured or if it draws prurient interests.

It is not to be discounted that antisemitic hate crime rates are rising, and Jews are disproportionately affected by hate crimes.

Your source

"Members of which of these groups were most likely to be a victim of a hate crime in 2019: Muslims, Blacks, or Jews? Based on media coverage, you would probably say Muslims or Blacks. According to a Google news search for the term “hate crimes” along with the name of each of those three groups, there are 291,000 results for “hate crimes” + black, 89,600 results for “hate crimes” + Muslim, and only 67,000 results for “hate crimes” + Jew. Based on news reports, you might think that blacks were much more likely than Jews to be the victim of a hate crime and that Muslims were somewhat more likely to be hate crime victims compared to Jews."

Analysis based on FBI hate crime data from 2023

Race-based crimes

Race-based crimes are the most common type of hate crime, accounting for 5,900 of the 2023 incidents. Anti-Black or African American incidents were the most common, more than 3,000 incidents, more than all religion-based incidents combined.

Other types of hate crimes

Other types of hate crimes in 2023 included:

Religion-based crimes: 2,699 incidents, with 1,832 anti-Jewish incidents

LGBTQI+ targeted crimes: 2,077 incidents, with 492 gender identity-based incidents

TEK

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Tim Knowles
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