An average of 18 attacks on Jews in Europe since September 11

[markusf]

bla i never believe these stats. you can make stats say whatever you want...

What where the attacks before? Did they change the way they measure these attacks.. What "crime" is included for it to be called an attack.

[chequita guevara]

I'm not in Europe.

[The Mad Monk]

Link, please!

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by GP
What are the first and second derivatives of the attack rates. Want to know if attacks are increasing and the sign of the curvature.

I want a Taylor series, stat!

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Without further details that's just a meaningless statistic. A mugging or assault doesn't turn into an act of anti-semitic violence simply because the victim is jewish.

[Roland]

"tabulated by a Jewish organisation"

Which one, where, by which means, under what definition, for what purpose, on which material ?

Just a starting question....

"what are the stats for the U.S.?"

IIRC US hate crime stats pre-9/11 have 1500 or so antisemitically motivited acts per year. They don't cover the entire US though, and I do not fully understand their standards.

[Rogan Josh]

Who cares?

I mean, there is no indication on this statistic whether or not these attacks are racially motivated or not. Do attacks on other races not matter to you?

If the number of attacks on anyone are x per day and Jews make up y% of the population, then is x*y/100 << 18????

this sort of scaremongering without any sort of statistics to back it up really pisses me off!

[Roland]

Those statistics usually only count racist/antisemitic/homophobic/whatever motive. Of course there's a lot of discretion in this, so I wonder who came up with the figures, and how.

They don't seem implausible.

[CyberGnu]

Hmm... cyber, visited a synagogue lately?

Implying that I would attack european jews for the crimes of Israel? That would make me a racist. I leave that for the zionists.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Broken down, this means that the average Jew in western Europe can expect to be the victim of an attack once every 167 years.

I wish my life was so peaceful.

[Chris 62]

Must be the twilight zone Horsey, two months ago you said this premise was nuts.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Chris 62
Must be the twilight zone Horsey, two months ago you said this premise was nuts.

crap - I was in Europe myself 2 months ago - I saw the reports first hand.

Here is a link, the report is from the European Jewish Congress.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/21/1023864500788.html

[Roland]

Isn't that a subdivision of the WJC ? Seems they don't even have a homepage of their own.

If it is a WJC product I'd be very, very sceptical about the standards and numbers they use.

[TCO]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


I want a Taylor series, stat!

Silly physics. Always turning things into a taylor series and throwing away all the terms that you don't like. Sterling approximation, etc.

[Eli]

http://www.jafi.org.il

http://www.jafi.org.il/aliyah1/index.htm