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OVERALL, HATE CRIMES ARE SAME IN 2002, 2003

NEW YORK, Nov. 29 -- The incidence of hate crimes in the United States may not be rising, but religion-based hate crimes overwhelmingly are directed against Jews and Jewish institutions.

Those were some findings of the FBI's Hate Crimes Statistics 2003, released Nov. 22.

The survey documents 927 anti-Jewish crimes last year -- most of them classified as intimidation -- comprising more than 12 percent of all hate crimes reported in America.

"In the total number of crimes under the religion category, the anti-Jewish crimes are higher than all the others -- and have been each year," FBI spokesman Paul Bresson told JTA.

This, said Anti-Defamation ...

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