194 anti-Semitic incidents have been recorded in these four years in New York
In 2022, anti-Semitic hate crimes increased dramatically in New York State, by 41 percent according to an analysis of crime data by The Algerian. There were 293 anti-Semitic incidents in total in 2022, up from 207 in 2021. In November alone, according to NYPD data, no fewer than 45 anti-Semitic-motivated hate crimes were recorded compared to 20 of November 2021. increase of 125%.
Recently, a Jew and his son were attacked outside a kosher supermarket and a group of Jewish boys were chased by assailants who fired a taser while shouting “Jews! Get out of here!” in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. An attempted attack was thwarted when two individuals armed with a large knife, a Glock 17 firearm, a 30-round magazine and a Nazi armband, who were planning an attack on New York’s Jewish community, were arrested by the NYPD at Penn Station on Nov. 18.
Most anti-Semitic hate crimes against Jews in New York City have targeted Orthodox or Hasidic Jews and were perpetrated by people from other minority groups, according to a report by Americans Against Antisemitism documenting anti-Semitic crimes in the city of New York between April 2018 and August 2022.
During these four years, a total of 194 incidents were recorded, including 154 physical attacks and another 40 verbal attacks. 22% of crimes were committed by teenagers and 23% by a group of two or more people. 151 of all the assaults took place in just four Brooklyn neighborhoods: in Flatbush-Midwood, Crown Heights, Boro Park-Kensington and Williamsburg.
