Antisemitism 3 times higher than July last year, with 30 incidents recorded — NYPD
No anti-Muslim incidents reported among 52 suspected hate crimes across New York City last month; every month since Oct. 7 has seen increase in antisemitic incidents year over year
Luke Tress is a JTA reporter and a former editor and reporter in New York for The Times of Israel.
New York Jewish Week — The New York Police Department reported 30 antisemitic incidents across the city in July, three times higher than the 10 anti-Jewish hate crimes reported during the same month last year, as the increase in antisemitism in New York continues nearly 10 months after war erupted in Gaza after Hamas’s October 7 massacre.
Last month, Jews were targeted in more hate incidents than all other groups combined, as they have been nearly every month since October 2023.
There were 52 total hate crimes reported to police last month, including five targeting Asians, one against Black people, five based on gender, eight based on sexual orientation, one based on religious bias and two against white people. The NYPD did not record any hate incidents against Muslims or Hispanic people.
Hate incidents against Jews spiked after Hamas’s thousands-strong October 7 invasion of Israel, which left nearly 1,200 people dead and saw 251 taken hostage. There were 69 antisemitic incidents in October and 62 in November.
The number has fluctuated since then, ranging anywhere from the 17 reported incidents in February to the 55 reported in May. Every month since October 7, the number of anti-Jewish hate crimes in the city has increased year over year.
The figures represent preliminary police data and are subject to change if, for example, an investigation finds that an altercation that had appeared discriminatory was not motivated by bigotry.
Not every reported hate crime results in an arrest or prosecution. The legal standard for proving bias is high, making prosecution difficult.
Several post-October 7 incidents are being pursued by prosecutors, including one in which a suspect allegedly punched a Jewish Israeli near Times Square while shouting antisemitic epithets in mid-October. In another incident, in April, a man was charged with a slew of hate crimes after aiming his car at Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn.
Other prominent cases surrounding the Israel-Hamas war are being prosecuted, but not as hate crimes, or have been resolved.
The war in Gaza erupted after Hamas’s October 7 massacre, which saw some 3,000 terrorists burst across the border into Israel by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
