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Despite the threat of tougher sentencing, hate crime is increasing. The Anti-Defamation League counted 1,730 anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. last year, the second highest total in the 14-year history of the ADL's audit. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force says attacks on homosexuals increased by 172% over the past five years. Klanwatch, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, reports that 1992 was "the deadliest and most violent year" for bias-related events in more than 10 years. Thirty-one of these were murders...
...Muhammad, there are two kinds of Jews. The first kind are to blame for the downturn in Black-Jewish relations. "The problem," Muhammad said, "seems to be a segment of Jewish people who have a lot of influence and power," like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai Brith...
...ADL has opposed awarding contracts by municipalities to a security firm formerly owned by the Nation of Islam. Why? Muhammad said Jews want to stifle Black economic empowerment. He did not mention that the firm disseminates anti-Semitic material--leaflets charging that the State of Israel has enslaved Ethiopian Jews, for example--in the housing projects it guards. (Porter had not heard of the issue but immediately condemned the ADL anyway...
...Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of Boston recorded eight incidents of anti-Semitic crimes in Cambridge...
...find it offensive that someone from the ADL comes in and tells me that if we put up the symbols of our beliefs and heritage we're going to get a lawsuit," he said...