This edition of ReligionLink provides background, relevant stories, resources and expert sources to help you report on rising hate in a time of conflict, political tension and divided opinion.

Irene Zempi is an associate professor in criminology at Nottingham Trent University. Zempi is also chair of the British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network, the lead of the NTU Hate Crime Research Group. She has published multiple books on Islamophobia.

Jonathan Greenblatt is the CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights watchdog organization with Jewish roots.

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice fights for racial and economic justice in New York City. M. Dove Kent is executive director.