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The New Crime Bill
Cracks Down On Hate

Washington (JTA) — Little-
known provisions in the contro-
versial $30 billion crime bill that
passed Congress last week drew
praise from some Jewish groups
for cracking down on terrorism
and hate crimes.
The praise came despite cer-
tain reservations expressed about
other measures in the bill, in-
cluding an expansion of the death
penalty.
After a suspense-filled drama,
the Senate joined the House in
resurrecting the first major piece
of anti-crime legislation to pass
Congress in six years.
After fending off stiff chal-
lenges from conservative law-
makers and gun control
opponents, the measure passed
the Senate 61-39 on Aug. 25. Pro-
viding billions of dollars in grants
to hire new police officers and to
build more prisons across the
country, the bill also bans dozens
of semi-automatic assault
weapons.
Along with the assault
weapons ban, two unpublicized
sections of the bill were hailed by
many in the Jewish community
for their direct aim at terrorism
and at hate crimes.
Culminating an effort to com-
bat hate crimes at the federal lev-
el, the bill will, for the first time,
allow federal courts to impose
stiffer penalties for hate crimes.
Over two dozen states cur-
rently have laws allowing judges
to impose stiffer sentences if a
crime is motivated by prejudice,
but the federal government had
not tackled the issue of stiffer sen-
tencing until last week.
Depending on the nature of the
offense, the provision known as
the Hate Crime Sentencing En-
hancement Act, will increase the
average penalty for a crime by
one-third over what would be
meted out if it was not motivat-
ed by prejudice.
In contrast to crimes commit-
ted at the local level, such as des-
ecration of a synagogue or a
cross-burning, federal hate
crimes involve crimes such as kid-
napping and extortion motivat-
ed by race, religion, gender or
disability. Hate crimes commit-
ted on federal property such as
national parks or Indian reser-
vations also constitute federal of-
fenses.
Forty-six states and the Dis-
trict of Columbia currently have
some type of hate-crime law on
the books, although not all the
states include stiffer sentencing.
"Increasing penalties for bias
crimes at the federal level sends
an important message to both vic-
tims and would-be perpetrators
that our society regards such

crimes as reprehensible," David
Strassler and Abraham Foxman,
national chairman and national
director, respectively, of the Anti-
Defamation League, said in a
statement praising the crime
bill's success.
Another provision in the bill
which drew widespread praise in
the Jewish community estab-
lishes new categories of federal
crimes for assisting terrorists and
also bans contributions to ter-
rorist organizations.
Leaders of the Conference of
Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations hailed the
measure regarding terrorism.
The provisions are "relevant to
the concerns of the Jewish com-
munity and all Americans," said
the umbrella organization's chair-
man, Lester Pollack, and execu-
tive vice chairman, Malcolm
Hoenlein, in a statement.

Mr. Schumer praised
the overall
legislation as a
beginning to
combatting crime
and terror.

The measure makes it a crime
to give money or weapons to ter-
rorist groups. Although propo-
nents on Capitol Hill believe the
ban will be difficult to enforce be-
cause it is difficult to monitor do-
nations, they say they hope the
measure will make people think
twice before giving money to ter-
rorist groups.
The terrorism sections of the
bill were pushed by U.S. Rep.
Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who
has tried in vain to pass tough
anti-terrorism legislation for at
least the past four years, accord-
ing to an aide.
As chairman of the House Ju-
diciary Subcommittee on Crime
and Criminal Justice, which in-
cludes jurisdiction over terrorism,
Mr. Schumer has long advocated
the death penalty for terrorist
acts that kill American citizens,
another provision which was in-
cluded in the crime bill passed
last week.
The bill also increases sen-
tences for any felony involving in-
ternational terrorism and
imposes stiffer penalties for pass-
port and visa fraud. The measure
also extends the statute of limi-
tations for terrorism and other
related crimes from five to eight
years.
Lobbyists for Irish American
groups fought the anti-terrorism