A new working definition of antisemitism will hopefully help raise hate crime awareness in Dallas.
A man armed with a pistol burst into Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville during a Sabbath service on January 15, 2022. For six hours, Malik Akrambefore releasing one during negotiations with law enforcement. A few hours after that, the three remaining hostages escaped to safety before FBI officers entered the building and killed the 44-year-old Akram.
“What this will really do is work itself into policy,” she says. “Working definitions are critical to system changes so that people understand what we are talking about and the intentional efforts we’re aiming to address. This makes the definition formal and gives us a backbone to continue to push the work forward.”
Wilson says this effort is the result of the work done by the Mayor’s Anti-Hate Advisory Council. Established in 2021 and consisting of religious and civic leaders, the council was formed by Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson to provide proactive recommendations on curbing intolerance and hate crimes in the city.
Perhaps, as Johnson said in 2021, hate crimes are still"relatively few," but hateful acts seem to be on the rise. The Anti-Defamation League loggedthroughout the United States in 2022, a number, the organization says, that was a 36% increase over 2021's total. In the study, Texas accounted for 211 of those incidents, the fourth-highest state total and a sharp increase from 121 incidents in 2021.
Wilson says that one of the objectives of the task force is to “create a safe way for people to report possible hate crimes in their community.” The attack on the Congregation Beth Israel last year made headlines across the country, but Wilson says the city keeps an eye on things that might not always grab such a large amount of attention.
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