“Let’s be clear. This was directly connected to the dehumanizing of Palestinians that has been allowed over the last week by our media, by our elected officials,” said one Illinois state lawmaker. U.S. civil rights defenders on Monday condemned the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy in Illinois, an alleged hate crime that […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage man was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison for two acts of hate-motivated property damage and a drug trafficking offense. According to court documents, in May 2021, Luke Foster, 28, placed stickers with a swastika and the text “WE ARE EVERYWHERE” at eight locations around Anchorage, including the Alaska […]
WASHINGTON — The white supremacist group Identity Evropa more than doubled the number of its chapters. The violent neo-Nazi organization Atomwaffen Division grew from one chapter to 27. The white nationalist group and podcasting site The Right Stuff boasted 34 chapters. American hate groups had a bumper year in 2018 as a surge in black and […]
WASHINGTON — The number of hate crime incidents reported in the United States jumped by 17 percent last year to more than 7,000 – the largest increase since 2001 when the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, led to a surge in bias-motivated crimes. The increase, reported Tuesday by the FBI, marks the third annual jump […]