More New Yorkers and Americans who outwardly identify as Jewish are being violently attacked or threatened, according to an unsettling new report released Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The number of assaults <\/a>targeting Jewish victims in New York jumped nearly 10% last year from 82 to 90 and 4% nationwide, according to the Anti-Defamation League\u2019s annual audit of antisemitic incidents released Wednesday.<\/p>\n New York \u2014 which has the largest Jewish population of any state \u2014 accounted for 44% of all documented antisemitic assaults nationally.<\/p>\n Mohamed Sabry Soliman launched a targeted terror attack in Colorado, setting at least one woman on fire as he lobbed Molotov cocktails at participants at an event for Israeli hostages still in Gaza.<\/p>\n But there was an overall dip in antisemitic incidents, with a 19% decline in New York State in 2025 and a 33% drop nationally \u2014 although the totals were still double the totals in 2022, before the Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7, 2023 that sparked an Israel campaign in Gaza. <\/p>\n In contrast with the overall reduction, Brooklyn saw a 10% increase in antisemitic incidents in 2025, totaling 278, compared to 253 in 2024.<\/p>\n Physical assaults rose in Brooklyn from 32 to 50, accounting for one quarter of all documented antisemitic assaults nationwide, the ADL said.<\/p>\n Incidents targeting Orthodox Jews identified by their garb in Brooklyn increased 39% year-over-year, from 38 to 53.<\/p>\n Jewish-motivated incidents against Brooklyn businesses jumped from 23 in 2024 to 40 in 2025.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile it is encouraging that reported antisemitic incidents in New York fell by nearly 20% in Elias Rosner was stabbed after leaving a Crown Heights Synagogue. Gabriella Bass for NY Post<\/p>\n \u201cThis decline does mark the first reversal of an upward trend that has persisted every year since 2021, but the numbers make clear that much work remains.\u201d<\/p>\n Last year marked one of the most violent and deadly periods for American Jews since ADL began tracking data in 1979.<\/p>\n Three people were murdered in antisemitic attacks last year: two Israeli diplomats <\/a>gunned down in the May 21, 2025, shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, and one victim who died from injuries sustained in the June 1, 2025, firebombing attack <\/a>at a \u201cRun for Their Lives\u201d event in Boulder, Colorado.<\/p>\n An arsonist also torched the residence of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish, in an attempted political assassination.<\/p>\n An 11-year-old girl was wearing traditional Jewish attire when she was attacked near Gerry Street and Harrison Avenue in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, on Feb. 7, 2026. NYPD<\/p>\n Examples of incidents targeting Brooklyn and other city Jewish residents in 2025 include:<\/p>\n ADL noted that it is pushing for additonal state and federal security grants to help protect Jews and publishes an annual report card that rates how colleges and universities handle antisemitism to help reduce incidents.<\/p>\n The Jewish civil rights group also helps stop potential threats.<\/p>\n
2025, the 1,160 cases which we tracked and responded to remains double the number before the massive spike post 10\/7, and I know firsthand that too many New Yorkers lived in fear in 2025 of being the victim of antisemitism,\u201d said ADL New York \/ New Jersey Regional Director Scott Richman.<\/p>\n\n