Anti-Muslim bigotry in US up sharply since October 7, group says

Complaints of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian discrimination and hate in the US rose by about 180 percent in the three months after October 7 following Hamas’s onslaught in southern Israel Israel and Israel’s subsequent campaign to oust Hamas from Gaza, the Council on American-Islamic Relations says.

CAIR says it has received 3,578 complaints during the last three months of 2023, amid what it calls “an ongoing wave of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian hate.” The figure is a 178% rise from complaints in the same period from a year earlier.

Complaints of employment discrimination lead the list with 662 instances; hate crimes and hate incidents were reported 472 times; and education discrimination 448 times, the organization says.

The rise coincides with spiking antisemitism in the US. In December, the Anti-Defamation League said it had recorded over 2,000 incidents in the two months after October 7, a jump of 337% of the previous year.

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