Members of which of these groups were most likely to be a victim of a hate crime in 2014: Muslims, Blacks or Jews? Based on media coverage, you would have to 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 88,300 results for “hate crimes” + black, 63,400 results for “hate crimes” + Muslims and only 26,200 results for “hate crimes” + Jews.
And yet recently released hate crime data from the FBI for 2014 reveal that there were 2,022 African-American victims of hate crimes last year, 648 Jewish victims of anti-religious hate crimes and 184 Muslim hate crime victims. Adjusting for the population size of each group (42 million blacks, 6.2 million Jews and 5.7 million Muslims), the hate crime victimization rates last year were per 100,000 population were 10.4 for Jews, 4.8 for blacks and 3.2 for Muslims (see chart above). Therefore, American Jews were more than twice as likely as blacks to be a victim of a hate crime last year, and three times more likely than a Muslim to be a hate crime victim.
The FBI data for 2014 on anti-religion hate crimes also reveal that of the 1,140 victims of anti-religious hate crimes last year in the US, 648 were Jewish (56.8% of the total) and 184 were Muslim (16.1% of the total). Obviously, since 56.8% of the anti-religious hate crime victims in 2014 were Jewish, there were more Jewish victims last year of anti-religious hate crimes (648) than victims of all other religious groups combined (492).
Question: Based on the actual rates of hate crime victimization and the fact that Jews are so disproportionately targeted, wouldn’t we have to conclude that hate crimes against Jews are routinely under-reported by the media relative to the reporting of hate crimes against blacks and Muslims?
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