News Analysis We all know about hate crimes, perpetrated by racists and bigots against, for example, ethnic and religious groups. They include anti-Asian hate, slurs against African Americans, and attacks on Jewish synagogues. But some hate crimes get less coverage in the mainstream press—those against adherents of Falun Gong, a spiritual meditation discipline. In the most recent alleged attacks, a man was caught on camera apparently vandalizing Falun Gong information booths on the streets of New York City. Police arrested the man, Zheng Buqiu, and charged him with a hate crime. Zheng isn’t the first. In 2008, charges for hate crimes against Falun Gong were filed in Brooklyn, and they were alleged in 2012 in San Francisco. The victims promoted principles of “truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance,” and for that “crime” were hounded out of China, or into hiding, much as Protestants in the 17th century fled religious persecution in England. The recent alleged …