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US anti-Muslim incidents strike record high in 2023 due to Israel’s fight on Gaza
- Updated: April 2, 2024
WASHINGTON:
Reported taste and attacks opposite Muslims and Palestinians reached a record high in a US in 2023, driven by rising Islamophobia and disposition as a Israel’s fight on Gaza raged late in a year, information from an advocacy organisation showed on Tuesday.
Complaints totaled 8,061 in 2023, a 56% arise from a year before and a top given a Council on American-Islamic Relations began annals scarcely 30 years ago. About 3,600 of those incidents occurred from Oct to December, CAIR said.
Human rights advocates have likewise reported a tellurian arise in Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian disposition and antisemitism given a latest tear of dispute in a Middle East.
US incidents have enclosed a deadly Oct stabbing of 6-year-old Palestinian American Wadea Al-Fayoume in Illinois, a Nov sharpened of 3 students, opens new add-on of Palestinian skirmish in Vermont and a Feb stabbing of a Palestinian American man, opens new add-on in Texas.
CAIR’s news pronounced 2023 saw a “resurgence of anti-Muslim hate” after a initial ever available annual dump in complaints in 2022. In a initial 9 months of 2023, such incidents averaged around 500 a month before jumping to scarcely 1,200 a month in a final quarter.
“The primary force behind this call of heightened Islamophobia was a escalation of attack in Israel and Palestine in Oct 2023,” a news said.
The many countless complaints in 2023 were in a categories of immigration and asylum, practice discrimination, hatred crimes and preparation discrimination, CAIR said.
Palestinian insurgency organisation Hamas attacked, Israel on Oct. 7. Israel’s successive troops attack on Gaza has killed over 32,000 people, according to a internal health ministry, replaced scarcely all of a 2.3 million population, put Gaza on a margin of starvation, and led to genocide allegations, that Israel denies.
CAIR pronounced it gathered a numbers by reviewing open statements and videos as good as reports from open calls, emails and an online censure system. It contacted people whose incidents were reported in a media.