fakehatecrimes.org

fake hate crimes: a database of hate crime hoaxes in the usa



The purpose of this site is to compile a comprehensive database of the false reports of "hate crimes" committed (mostly) in the USA. It builds on the work of Laird Wilcox, whose Crying Wolf (PDF) is the original book on this subject. The books Hate Crime Hoax and Hate Crimes: Criminal Law & Identity Politics are also recommended.

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New York Muslim woman set on fire was not target of hate crime, New York police say https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/14/mus... online article 2016-09-14
A Muslim woman was set on fire in New York. Now just going out requires courage https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/... online article 2016-09-13
'Poster boy for white hatred' sues Michigan Tech for scapegoating him http://campusreform.org/?ID=8116 online article 2016-09-09
Woman's Claim Of Racial Crime Is Called a Hoax http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/01/us/woman-s-claim-... online article 1990-05-31
Calum McSwiggan summoned to court over fake hate crime claims http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/07/20/calum-mcswigga... online article 2016-07-20
Das Hakenkreuz selbst geritzt http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/urteil-im-mittw... online article 2010-05-17
Messerattacke offenbar erfunden - linker Jungpolitiker wird angeklagt http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/verdacht-des-vor... online article 2016-07-15
'Racist' Text Messages at Ottoson Fabricated: Police http://patch.com/massachusetts/arlington/racist-tex... online article 2016-07-06
YouTube personality in 'gay hate crime attack' charged with making false police report after 'faking injuries' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/30/youtube-... online article 2016-06-29
Student activist gets 90 days in jail for fake racial threats on Twitter https://www.rt.com/usa/347233-kean-student-kayla-mc... online article 2016-06-18
Feuer in Asyl-Unterkunft: Der Schuldige scheint gefasst http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/bayern/Feuer-in... online article 2015-10-08
Syrian refugee admits to setting shelter on fire, spray-painting swastikas to frame far-right https://www.rt.com/news/339226-syrian-refugee-arson... online article 2016-04-11
DePaul Students Traumatized by Pro-Trump Message, Rope Found After Milo Visit http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/06/01/depaul-stu... online article 2016-06-01
Cops: Iowa student from Naperville lied about being victim of hate crime http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-su... online article 2016-05-17
Racism Charges in Bus Incident, and Their Unraveling, Upset University at Albany http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/nyregion/racism-c... online article 2016-03-01
Pastor admits he lied about a Whole Foods incident that caused a public outcry http://www.businessinsider.com/pastor-drops-lawsuit... online article 2016-05-17
FBI: Assault near University of Iowa campus not hate crime http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/FBI-Assault-near-U... online article 2016-05-16
There Have Been Over 100 Hate Crime Hoaxes In The Past Decade http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/05/02/hate-crime... online article 2016-05-02
N.Y. college students accused of fabricating racially motivated attack http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/02/us/new-york-alban... online article 2016-05-03
Black students connected in SU racist drawing http://college.usatoday.com/2016/04/27/black-studen... online article 2016-04-27
Kean University racism protester to face jail time for tweeting fake death threats http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/19/kean-universi... online article 2016-01-16
Jersey City high school candidate for student gov't sent racist texts to himself, school official says http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2013/08/the_blac... online article 2013-08-26
Woman admits tweeting fake threats to fellow black students https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-admits-tweeting-fa... online article 2016-04-19
Molenbeek ‘Far Right’ Hit And Run Was Muslim-On-Muslim Attack http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/04/04/exposed-... online article 2016-04-04
News 10 http://news10.com/2016/02/24/ualbany-students-claim... online article 2016-02-24
Churchill: UAlbany bus attack story isn't holding up http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/Chur... online article 2016-02-09
East Palo Alto Man Arrested for Falsely Reporting Hate Crime http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/East-Palo-Alto... online article 2016-01-12
Suspect in Houston mosque fire claims to have prayed there five times a day, police say https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/w... online article 2015-12-30
Twitter threats to black Kean students made by black alum, police say http://www.nj.com/union/index.ssf/2015/12/arrest_ma... online article 2015-12-01
Yik Yak threat at SVSU said, 'I'm going to shoot every black person I can on campus' http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2015/11... online article 2015-11-17

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