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Hate violence poses a serious threat to California communities. In every region of the state, incidents have occurred in which racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities have been harassed, intimidated, assaulted and even murdered. In some communities, acts motivated by bigotry have sparked widespread community disruption.

Teaching tolerance helps fight hate (features CAHRO’s Rusty Kennedy)

By | October 22nd, 2012|Hate Crimes, Immigration|

Tattoos tell stories, whether on the arm of a Holocaust survivor or a white supremacist.

The faded black number on Ester Bershtel’s left arm testifies to one woman’s strength to escape the horrors of Auschwitz.

Read more in The Orange County Register: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/hate-374986-white-kennedy.html

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Amish Sect Leader and Followers Guilty of Hate Crimes

By | September 21st, 2012|Hate Crimes|

Samuel Mullet Sr., the domineering leader of a renegade Amish sect, and 15 of his followers were convicted on Thursday in Cleveland of federal conspiracy and hate crimes for a series of bizarre beard- and hair-cutting attacks last fall that spread fear through the Amish of eastern Ohio….

Read more in The New York Times:

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Marines accused of assaulting man outside gay bar in Long Beach

By | September 6th, 2012|Hate Crimes, LGBTQ+, Police & Community|

Four U.S. Marines face possible assault and hate crime charges in connection with the Labor Day weekend beating of a man outside a gay bar in Long Beach, authorities said Wednesday.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/09/marines-gay-assault-hate-crime.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=649324

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Orange County hate crimes rise 14%

By | August 31st, 2012|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

The slurs rang out each time he left or came home to the south Orange County condo he shared with his partner, reaching the point where he thought about just giving up and moving.

“They were destroying my life … with the worst experience of my life,” said the Laguna Niguel resident, who asked to go

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After Attacks, Israeli Schools Confront Hate

By | August 28th, 2012|Hate Crimes|

JERUSALEM — Tamer Jbarah, a 17-year-old Palestinian student who speaks accentless Hebrew after years in a bilingual school that is about half Jewish, said he was not at all surprised when a mob of Jewish teenagers beat an Arab teenager unconscious this month while hundreds watched and did nothing to help.

Read more in The New

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Young Israelis Held in Attack on Arabs

By | August 21st, 2012|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

JERUSALEM — Seven Israeli teenagers were in custody on Monday, accused of what a police official and several witnesses described as an attempted lynching of several Palestinian youths, laying bare the undercurrent of tension in this ethnically mixed but politically divided city. A 15-year-old suspect standing outside court said, “For my part he can die,

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Music Style Is Called Supremacist Recruiting Tool

By | August 9th, 2012|Extremism, Hate Crimes|

MILWAUKEE — The shooting rampage by an avowed white supremacist that killed six people at a suburban Sikh Temple near here came at a time of both growth and disarray in the supremacist movement.

Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/us/hatecore-music-is-called-white-supremacist-recruiting-tool.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=us

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Sikh temple shooter seems to have followed ‘lone wolf’ path, quotes CAHRO board member Brian Levin

By | August 9th, 2012|Extremism, Hate Crimes|

Law enforcement has pored through more than 100 leads following the shootings that left six people dead at a Sikh temple this week, trying to determine whether gunman Wade Michael Page acted alone or was part of a group bent on carrying out acts of neo-Nazi violence.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-sikh-temple-shooting-20120809,0,6891673.story

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Sikh temple shooter said to be white suprem

By | August 6th, 2012|Extremism, Hate Crimes|

OAK CREEK, Wis.—The gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin before he was shot to death by police was identified Monday as a 40-year-old Army veteran and former leader of a white supremacist metal band.

Read more in The Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2012/08/06/motive_sought_after_6_slain_at_wis_sikh_temple/

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