{"id":978870,"date":"2026-08-03T23:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/978870\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T23:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:34:15","slug":"mamdani-takes-heat-as-anti-jewish-hate-crimes-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/978870\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani Takes Heat as Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Hate crimes targeting Jewish New Yorkers are rising even as overall crime falls, and the city&#8217;s new mayor is at the center of the tension. Police data show 205 anti-Jewish hate crimes in the first seven months of 2026, up from 189 a year earlier; such attacks now make up more than half of all hate crimes in a city where Jews are about 10% of the population. Some Jewish leaders link the climate to Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s repeated criticism of Israel, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/hate-crimes-against-jewish-new-yorkers-surge-amid-heightened-antisemitism-b7a78a44?mod=hp_lead_pos11\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal <\/a>reports.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        The mayor has labeled Israel&#8217;s actions in Gaza &#8220;genocide,&#8221; skipped the Israel Day parade, and recently mused about arresting Israeli Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/393544\/netanyahu-accuses-mamdani-of-hate-speech.html?\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> on an international warrant before later conceding he lacks that power. Netanyahu accused him of &#8220;fomenting hate,&#8221; while Rabbi Rick Jacobs said the mayor&#8217;s focus on Netanyahu leaves Jews feeling more exposed. Mamdani insists antisemitism &#8220;will never be tolerated,&#8221; points to increased funding for the city&#8217;s hate crimes office, and maintains he governs &#8220;for all New Yorkers.&#8221; Others say his rhetoric and, sometimes, actions undercut that message, per the Journal. There were complaints last month, for instance, when Mamdani named a panel to advise him on judicial appointments, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/27\/nyregion\/mamdani-judges-jewish.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>, which he said would reflect the city&#8217;s &#8220;cosmopolitan population.&#8221; Not one of the 18 members is Jewish.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Hate crimes targeting Jewish New Yorkers are rising even as overall crime falls, and the city&#8217;s new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":978871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,38408,12648,39476,43556,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,7358,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":["post-978870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-anti-defamation-league","tag-antisemitism","tag-hate-crime","tag-hate-crimes","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-stabbing","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117034203977095730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/978871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}