A new report from Community Security Service (CSS) chronicles and analyzes the pattern of attacks on Jewish and American targets inside the United States from 1969 to 2016. CSS's unprecedented survey anti-Jewish incidents makes a worrying but by no means alarmist case against complacency. CSS, a nonprofit aimed at improving security practices and awareness within American Jewish communities, found that militant white supremacists, Islamic radicals, and Palestinian-affiliated militants were responsible for the vast majority of attacks covered under the study. This relatively diverse range of religious, national, and racial motivations inspired complex multi-explosive attacks, as well as crude arson attempts—violence against American Jews has taken on a variety of forms over recent decades, and both the methods and sources of anti-Jewish violence have proven worryingly difficult to anticipate.
Here are some of the report's more notable findings:
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