Jewish New Yorkers were the victims in more than fifty percent of the hate crimes perpetrated in the Big Apple over the past two years, according to statistics released Monday by the NYPD.
There were 345 reported antisemitic incidents in the city from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2024, comprising nearly 54 percent of the 641 hate crimes carried out.
In 2023, police reported a total of 323 anti-Jewish hate crimes.
“Jewish New Yorkers make up 12% of the population yet account for more than 50% of hate crime victims in New York City,” New York Congressman Ritchie Torres wrote in a post on the X social media platform.
“New York has fundamentally failed to protect the Jewish community from a historic explosion of hate crimes,” charged Torres, a longtime supporter of the Jewish State.
Jewish New Yorkers make up 12% of the population yet account for more than 50% of hate crime victims in New York City.
New York has fundamentally failed to protect the Jewish community from a historic explosion of hate crimes. pic.twitter.com/AHeFl5AcaX
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) January 7, 2025
Among the antisemitic incidents that took place in New York City last year was graffiti slathered on the home of the director of the iconic Brooklyn Museum.
On Monday this week, pro-terror demonstrators stood outside NYU’s Tisch Medical Center chanting, “We don’t want no Zionists here.”
According to the national Anti-Defamation League (ADL), antisemitic incidents skyrocketed in the first three months after Gaza’s ruling Hamas terrorist organization launched its ongoing war against Israel, invading communities along the border and slaughtering some 1,200 people.
In just that three months alone, the organization recorded 3,291 antisemitic incidents between Oct. 7, 2023 and January 7, 2024 – a 361 percent increase over the 712 incidents recorded during the same period one year earlier.
“Antisemitism is increasingly affecting younger populations, with a disturbing 135 percent rise in incidents in K-12 schools over the past year, paralleling national trends,” the ADL reported last month.
There were 1,162 antisemitic incidents recorded by the ADL in non-Jewish schools in 2023, up from 495 such incidents in 2022.
“This surge is not confined to isolated incidents but reflects a broader, deeply troubling trend across educational settings, public and private alike,” the organization warned.
