{"id":980637,"date":"2026-08-04T18:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/980637\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:49:14","slug":"antisemitic-attacks-on-rise-in-new-york-as-violent-crime-overall-decreases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/980637\/","title":{"rendered":"Antisemitic attacks on rise in New York as violent crime overall decreases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anti-Jewish hate crimes have climbed 8.5% in New York City<\/a> this year, even as shootings and murders across the city fell to historic lows, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD).<\/p>\n

NYPD<\/a> officials on Monday announced they have recorded 205 confirmed hate crimes against Jews between January and July 2026, up from 189 during the same period last year. Jews were targeted in more than half of all hate crimes, or 57%, similar to the proportion in 2025. Jews make up 10% of the city\u2019s population. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Bias-motivated crimes overall rose to 360 incidents this year. The NYPD did not respond by press time to a request for a breakdown of hate crimes into violent and non-violent categories.<\/p>\n

Antisemitic incidents reached a record high in 2024 during the aftermath of Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel and Israel\u2019s retaliation in Gaza<\/a>. The figures fell slightly in 2025 but have remained elevated over the past five years.<\/p>\n

In July, the total confirmed hate crimes and those aimed at Jews both fell below 2026 monthly averages.<\/p>\n

Still, a string of high-profile attacks last month has Jews on alert. They include the double stabbing of a Jewish man and an Asian man in Manhattan, the assault of a Jewish man by an alleged assailant who shouted antisemitic slurs in Brooklyn, and the vandalism of two synagogues in Queens with motor oil and feces.<\/p>\n

Some Israeli officials and pro-Israel Jewish leaders have accused Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> of fueling antisemitic incidents through his staunch criticism of Israel, which last month included calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a \u201cwar criminal\u201d and urging the US government to arrest him for war crimes in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon drew a connection on Monday between Mamdani\u2019s statements about Netanyahu and the stabbing of Moshe Grunhaus on the Upper West Side, which occurred hours later.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince Zohran Mamdani took office as Mayor of New York City, there has been a troubling rise in hate crimes targeting Jews across the city,\u201d Danon said on X\/Twitter. \u201cThis is not just our opinion. The NYPD\u2019s own statistics show a sharp increase in antisemitic hate crimes since January 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s office did not respond to a request for comment on allegations that his rhetoric has contributed to antisemitism. But Mamdani said in a statement on Monday it was \u201cunacceptable\u201d that \u201cwhile Jewish New Yorkers comprise a minority of our city\u2019s population, they continue to comprise the majority of the victims of hate crimes.\u201d He said his administration has boosted the Office of Hate Crime Prevention\u2019s budget by more than 800%.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe work to uproot antisemitism out of this city is one that will continue until we see hate crimes come to an end in the city,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anti-Jewish hate crimes have climbed 8.5% in New York City this year, even as shootings and murders across…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":980638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[12648,26813,8921,39476,99,405,50,8572],"class_list":["post-980637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-antisemitism","tag-antizionism","tag-diaspora","tag-hate-crime","tag-israel","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-violence"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980637","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=980637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}