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Originally Posted by willravel
The reality is that the racism against jews is a lot less prevalent than the media would make us think.
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will...I guess that depends on what you mean by less prevalent.
In the US, the numbers may be relatively small, but hate crimes against Jews (69% of religious based hate crimes) is consistently higher than any other religious group, including Muslims
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2005/victims.htm
And antisemitism in Europe is at the highest level in many years:
In France, where official figures showed that antisemitic incidents had dropped dramatically between 2004 and 2005, antisemitic threats and acts increased by 6.6 percent in 2006. This came in a country where overall hate crimes declined 10 percent.
In the United Kingdom, antisemitic incidents also rose dramatically in 2006, with the highest annual toll since the collection of statistics started in 1984.
In Canada, B'nai Brith Canada's annual survey reported a 12.8 percent rise in antisemitic incidents over the previous year, to 935 incidents - the highest level ever reported
In Germany, police sources in late 2006 preliminarily reported a dramatic rise in extremist crimes by some 20 percent, although it was not confirmed that antisemitic crimes, a subset of extremist crimes, had also risen proportionately. Antisemitic incidents increased in both 2004 and 2005.
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/disc...survey-antisem