NYC Jews targeted in hate crimes more than all other groups combined in 2025 — NYPD

NEW YORK — Jews were targeted in hate crimes more than all other groups combined last year in New York City, according to NYPD data released on Tuesday.

The police reported 330 antisemitic incidents in the US city out of 576 total suspected hate crimes there in 2025.

The antisemitic incidents amounted to 57 percent of the total hate crimes reported to police, and represented a suspected anti-Jewish incident every 26 hours.

Jews make up around 10 percent of the city’s population.

There were 25 incidents targeting Asians, 45 against Black people, eight against Hispanic people, 30 Islamophobic incidents, 11 against white people, 28 based on gender, 16 against unspecified ethnicities and 31 targeting unspecified religious groups.

Antisemitic incidents were more than six times higher than the next most-targeted category, the 52 attacks motivated by sexual orientation.

The figures do not represent hate crime convictions, but suspected incidents. The statistics are subject to change, and the incidents reclassified as non-bias incidents, if investigators are unable to determine a discriminatory motive.

Hate crime convictions are relatively rare because investigators need to prove bias, a high legal bar. Hate crimes are treated as more severe than incidents lacking a bias motive because they are seen as targeting a group, and convictions carry an increased penalty.

The number of antisemitic incidents in 2025 marked a slight decrease of three percent from the previous year, when there were 339 anti-Jewish incidents reported to police.

For all groups, hate crimes decreased by 12% compared to 2024.

Jewish security groups have said that many bias incidents are likely not reported to police.

There was a surge in antisemitic incidents in New York following Hamas’s October 2023 invasion of Israel, but even before then, Jews were targeted in hate crimes far more than any other group.

The incidents range from physical assaults to vandalism and harassment.

“These numbers remain far too high and antisemitism continues to be the most persistent hate threat that we face,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a Tuesday press briefing alongside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

Tisch is a Jewish centrist who was appointed by Mamdani’s predecessor, Eric Adams. Mamdani’s decision to retain Tisch assuaged some concerns about law enforcement under Mamdani’s tenure, given his far-left politics.

Hochul said during the briefing that, during her State of the State briefing on January 13, she will announce a policy establishing “safety zones” around houses of worship.

Protests at synagogues have been a concern since a caustic demonstration outside a Manhattan synagogue in November.

The safety zones will establish areas “where people can go freely to go to a safe place without threats of violence or protest,” Hochul said.

Overall, most violent crimes such as shootings, murders and robberies decreased in the city last year.

Many Jewish New Yorkers are alarmed about safety under Mamdani’s administration due to his antagonism toward Israel, while Mamdani has repeatedly vowed to oppose antisemitism and protect the Jewish community.

In one of his first moves as mayor, Mamdani last week revoked the city’s use of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which defines some forms of criticism of Israel as discriminatory.

Mamdani retained the Office to Combat Antisemitism established by Adams, although the office’s leadership and how it will define antisemitism remained unclear.

His decision to revoke the IHRA definition drew criticism from an array of leading Jewish groups and the US Holocaust Museum.