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Hate Crime
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A Lawyer Writes
Tackling race hate
Racial hatred laws are not being enforced as they should be, the government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation said yesterday. Jonathan Hall KC was delivering a lecture at the think…
JURIST
Civil rights organizations condemn synagogue arson in Mississippi
By Paul Leech | Georgetown U. Law Center, US
Civil rights organizations on Sunday condemned the arson attack on Beth Israel Congregation and the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life building, Mississippi’s largest synagogue. The suspect, Stephen Spencer Pittman,…
Zalma on Insurance
Guilty of Arson & Fraud on Public
By Barry Zalma
GoFundMe Request Based on Fake Claim of Racial Animus Post 5199 See the full video at https://rumble.com/v6zrgek-guilty-of-arson-and-fraud-on-public.html and at https://youtu.be/g7Tg_H70rDM An Attempt to Profit the Public by Setting Fire to…
Michael Geist
Grocery Shopping While Jewish
In my family, it was always the “kosher Loblaws.” Featuring Ottawa’s only large kosher food section, the Loblaws location at College Square in the west end of the city is…
Legal Profession Blog
There Once Were Two Crimes In Nantucket
Over an impassioned dissent, the Massachusetts Appeals Court dismissed in the main claims that two residents of Nantucket were unconstitutionally silenced in raising concerns about the investigation of an unsolved…
Religion Clause
FBI Releases 2024 Hate Crime Data
On August 5, the FBI released 2024 U.S. Hate Crime Statistics (full text of report). The Report discloses the 24.6% of the hate crime incidents last year resulted from religious bias.…
California Public Agency Labor & Employment Blog
Public Safety Video Briefing: AB 655 Mandates Investigations of Hate-Related Activity – July 2025
Our short Public Safety Video Briefings will tackle cutting-edge issues and core principles relevant to public safety employers. We hope you find these videos useful and thought-provoking. https://vimeo.com/1101289535?share=copy
Religion Clause
Arizona Man Convicted of Bomb Threat Hate Crime Against Church
The Department of Justice announced yesterday:After an 11-day trial, a federal jury returned a guilty verdict yesterday against Zimnako Salah, 45, of Phoenix, Arizona, convicting him of strapping a backpack…
Simple Justice
Does A Swastika A Hate Crime Make?
Few of us get to have the attorney general put the full force of the federal law enforcement machine behind us personally, crimes usually being more generic and prosecuted (or…
ImmigrationProf Blog
When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants
Michael Luo for the New Yorker reminds us that on September 2, 1885, in one of the most gruesome episodes of racial terror in American history, a group of white…