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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Donald Trump is truly a uniter — unintentionally, that is. During his presidency, he brought Jews and Muslims together to stand up to bigotry directed against both communities and to vote against him by bigger margins than any other American faith groups. With Trump leaving office in January, these alliances must continue to strengthen, so they can serve as both a celebration of who we are as members of minority faith groups and work as a bulwark, to prevent another Trump-like figure from ever winning the White House again.
We saw another example this week of Jews and Muslims sharing an unwanted, common experience when the FBI released its annual report on hate crimes that found first Jews and then Muslims as the two religious groups most targeted for hate crimes in 2019. Overall, hate crimes in 2019 were the highest in more than decade, and hate-motivated murders were the highest since the FBI began gathering such data in the early 1990s.
In response to the FBI’s report, the Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council, of which I’m a member, called for passage of the Jabara-Heyer National Opposition to Hate, Assaults, and Threats to Equality (NO HATE) Act that would “incentivize state and local law enforcement authorities to improve hate crime reporting by making grants available.” The reality is while the 2019 hate crime numbers are chilling, the true number is likely much higher given that last year the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights identified “massive underreporting” of hate crimes.
https://forward.com/opinion/458789/...ews-we-must-build-on-that-to-prevent-another/
We saw another example this week of Jews and Muslims sharing an unwanted, common experience when the FBI released its annual report on hate crimes that found first Jews and then Muslims as the two religious groups most targeted for hate crimes in 2019. Overall, hate crimes in 2019 were the highest in more than decade, and hate-motivated murders were the highest since the FBI began gathering such data in the early 1990s.
In response to the FBI’s report, the Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council, of which I’m a member, called for passage of the Jabara-Heyer National Opposition to Hate, Assaults, and Threats to Equality (NO HATE) Act that would “incentivize state and local law enforcement authorities to improve hate crime reporting by making grants available.” The reality is while the 2019 hate crime numbers are chilling, the true number is likely much higher given that last year the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights identified “massive underreporting” of hate crimes.
https://forward.com/opinion/458789/...ews-we-must-build-on-that-to-prevent-another/
