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Thu Feb 21, 2019, 04:28 AM Feb 2019

(Jewish Group) Hate groups in America on the rise - report

The number of active hate groups in the United States is at a record high — and many are anti-Semitic in nature.

That comes from a report released Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center saying that 1,020 hate groups were active last year, an increase of about 7 percent from 2017. The number exceeds the record of 1,018 groups in 2011; the Montgomery, Alabama-based civil rights organization started counting hate groups in 1990.

The SPLC found that the number of both white supremacist and black nationalist groups — such as the Nation of Islam and the Black Hebrew Israelites — has increased. Its intelligence project director, Heidi Beirich, told reporters in a phone call that the majority of groups in both categories are anti-Semitic.

However, the number of some types of organizations, including neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan chapters, fell last year.

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Apparently, we are supposed to "ignore" anti-Semitism, especially when it is spewed by certain groups.

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