Anti-Semitic crime is up a whopping FORTY-FIVE percent in NYC in 2024 as Jewish ... trends now
Newly released police data shows that there has been a nearly 50 percent increase in anti-Semitic crime in New York City in the first four months of this year.
According to data released by the New York Police Department, both New York City and New Jersey have become hotspots for anti-Semitic related crime.
A 45 percent increase in hate crimes towards Jewish people has been reported by city officials, according to the New York Post.
As of April 2024, 96 such hate incidents have been reported across the Big Apple - a stark rise from the 66 that were reported during the same time period last year, according to the police department statistics.
According to data released by the New York Police Department, both New York City and New Jersey have become hotspots for anti-Semitic related crime. A woman is seen mocking the Israeli flag during a protest in April near Wall Street
Hundreds of people gather in front of Radio City Music Hall in New York to stage a demonstration protesting US President Joe Biden's support for Israel
Pro-Palestine supporters burn and tear an Israeli flag in counter protest to a Rally for Israel in Times Square, Manhattan, New York
Police Commissioner Edward Caban said Wednesday at a pre-Passover security briefing explained: 'The terror attacks on October 7th changed the public safety landscape, and we’re still feeling the ripple effects of that terrible day.'
According to the Anti-Defamation League, between October 7 and the end of 2023, the agency recorded 5,204 incidents - more than the incident total for the whole of 2022.
The NYPD has also announced that security at Jewish institutions will increase next week as Passover begins.
Kehilath Jeshurun from the Upper East Side, told CBS that they will be among the synagogues working with police to step up patrols for Passover.
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz also told the channel: 'Passover is a holiday that is the festival of freedom, and it's one in which we have to show that we're worthy of freedom.
'We have people here that are watching and guarding all the time. We have various technology that comes and watches over us, and it's tragic.'
This comes two months after reports of Jewish family being targeted with foul-mouthed harassment in a New Jersey mall emerged.
A demonstrator is seen as people gather to stage a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Times Square and march to the Washington Square Park in New York
Police take security measures as hundreds of pro-Palestinian supporters gather in front of Radio City Music Hall
On New Year's Day, mother Adi Vaxman was with her husband and two of their children, ages 12 and 16, at the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, where the family hoped to play a round of mini-golf.
As they walked through the dense holiday crowds, a young man and woman began hurling obscenities at her daughter, who was wearing a jacket with the logo of the Israeli Defense Forces, which had been a gift from the girl's veteran grandfather.
'We hear a man calling and screaming, "free Palestine, f*** Israel, f*** you, you w**re" — "you b***h," he was calling my daughter,' Vaxman recalled in a phone interview on Tuesday.
'The crazy thing is that the mall was packed, and there were dozens of people kind of in a circle around us watching. Just watching. Nobody said anything. Nobody did anything. Nobody called security,' she added.
Mother Adi Vaxman is speaking out after her family was subjected to anti-Jewish harassment over her daughter's IDF jacket, a gift from her grandfather. Pictured, left to right: 16-year-old daughter Maya Vaxman-Magid (wearing the jacket), mother Adi Vaxman, father Ronen Magid, 12-year-old son Ethan Vaxman-Magid, and their older son Tavorr Vaxman-Magid
Video first shared on X by the watchdog group StopAntisemitism shows part of the disturbing confrontation, with a young woman and man both screaming obscenities at the Jewish
