A Florida man, Mordechai Brafman, faces hate crime charges after shooting two Israeli men, mistaking them for Palestinians. This incident highlights a rise in hate crimes against Muslims, Palestinians ...

While hate crimes are motivated by prejudice and aim to harm specific groups or individuals, terrorism typically seeks to achieve broader political, ideological, or religious goals by instilling fear ...

It creates new, aggravated forms of certain existing offences such as hate crimes where they are aggravated by hatred of one or more of these protected characteristics. Incitement to hatred and ...

After bowing to the opposition on mandatory minimum sentences, the Australian government needs to reestablish its leadership ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law bills that would reclassify certain crimes as hate crimes, replacing Michigan’s 1988 ethnic intimidation law ...

A wave of antisemitic attacks has roiled Australia, with a dozen arrests for vandalizing or setting homes, schools, and ...

The legislation creates new and bolstered hate crime offences protecting a raft of characteristics, including race, religion ...

A new law took effect Jan. 1 in Washington state that establishes a hotline to report and track hate crimes and bias incidents. Senate Bill 5427 is aimed at providing better support and services ...

Michigan’s hate crime law will soon be expanded to protect sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability and more. The first overhaul to the law in about 36 years will also ...

Annual crime statistics from the University of Colorado Boulder show increases in reports of certain types of crime on campus, including sexual assault and hate crimes. Between 2021 and 2023 ...