US Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes Spiked 37 Percent in 2017: FBI

US Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes Spiked 37 Percent in 2017: FBI
Flowers and other items have been left as memorials outside the Tree of Life synagogue following last Saturday's shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 3, 2018. Alan Freed/File Photo/Reuters
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Hate crimes in the United States jumped 17 percent in 2017, with a huge 37 percent spike in anti-Semitic attacks, marking the third year in a row that such attacks have increased, according to FBI data released on Nov. 13.

The release of the data comes just weeks after a gunman burst into a Pittsburgh synagogue and shot dead 11 worshippers while shouting “All Jews must die.”