CAIR: USA anti-Muslim incidents cases surge about 70% in first half of 2024

Discrimination and attacks against Muslims and Palestinians rose by about 70 percent in the USA in the first half of 2024 amid Gaza war, the Council on American-Islamic Relations advocacy group said.

Human rights advocates have reported a global rise in Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian bias and antisemitism since the eruption in October of the Israel-Gaza war which has killed tens of thousands and caused a humanitarian crisis.

In the first six months of 2024, CAIR said it received 4,951 complaints of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian incidents, a rise of nearly 70 percent compared with the same period in 2023.

Most of the complaints were in the categories of immigration and asylum, employment discrimination, education discrimination and hate crimes, CAIR said.