We've had an awful lot lot of bluster and changing the subject and attack as defence here. So a reminder. This is what was said:

"Jews are targeted more than all other religious groups combined in most of the western world today."

In spite of several requests for the numbers to support this,all we've had is a list containing a relatively extremely tiny number of unspecified religious-based hate crimes from one huge western country. A five-second geography lesson for bobad and Teribus: the US is not "most of the western world." We have also been dared to do the research that bobad and Teribus clearly haven't done. On top of that we have been treated to the usual tirade of diversions and insults for being so bold as to ask for verification. I've lost count of the number of times that Teribus has accused other people of making "baseless assertions," etc. (generally unjustified, but hey ho). Well if you routinely want your way clear to make these allegations against others, you'd better be squeaky clean yourself. I don't know whether the assertion about these hate crimes is true or not and it isn't a fight in which I have a dog. So I ask again. Where are the numbers that support the assertion? The ones so far on offer are not only vague and unspecified (what kinds of hate crimes, for example?), they are tiny in number considering the population of the one country in question, so they do not in any way satisfy the assertion. Apologies for valiantly sticking to the point. It would be nice if it became more of a trend.