Through Oct. 7, there were 94 reported hate crimes against Jews - making up almost half of the city's 209 total bias incidents, NYPD stats show.
Over the same period last year, 82 anti-Jewish crimes were reported.
Hate Crime VS. Jews on Rise in City
NEW YORK CITY, NY — The number of bias crimes against Jews in New York City soared 15 percent this year, with some blaming the spike on last month’s controversial visit from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Through Oct. 7, there were 94 reported hate crimes against Jews – making up almost half of the city’s 209 total bias incidents, NYPD stats show.
Over the same period last year, 82 anti-Jewish crimes were reported.
Those stats don’t even include two incidents after Oct. 7 – a swastika painted on a Columbia University wall and 22 swastikas scrawled in green chalk on the walls of Murry Bergtraum HS in Manhattan.
“We have certainly noticed a surge in the number of such incidents recently,” said Joel Levy, New York director of the Anti-Defamation League.
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that many of the incidents in the recent surge occurred immediately after the visit from Ahmadinejad. We had a hater, a Holocaust denier, a man who has said he wants to destroy the state of Israel and has built a nuclear weapon for that purpose, visit the city. I think that brought out some of the hate.”
One of the ugliest anti-Semitic incidents happened only days after Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia University. Swastikas and other hate graffiti were sprayed in 24 separate places in Brooklyn Heights, including two synagogues and several private homes, at the end of September.
There have been no arrests.
viewer
no mention of blacks attacking jews in crown heights. what, that’s not a hate crime?
ny
i cant beleive that there werent any arrests its poshut crazy
Stop the Hate
To Viewer: Just because a black person happens to mug a Jew in Crown Heights doesn’t make it a hate crime. Hate crimes are committed against Jews because of their religion. Muggings in Crown Heights happen to Jews because no one else in the neighborhood has money. They don’t care if you’re Jewish or not.
NY: Ditto.
viewer
to "stop the hate":
1. often the blacks attack jews just to attack them – they dont even go for their money. if you’ve been watching the news you noticed that blacks have walked up to jews and hit them over the head or whatever, then walked away. they never even asked them for their money.
2. blacks accompany their attacks with racial slurs and insults – that should convince you that it’s a hate crime.
3. there are other whites in the neighborhood and the blacks specifically attack the jews.
dude
maybe if jews and blacks made efforts to ease racial tensions shit wouldn’t happen…but jews are to scared…wouldn’t even let me help them up the stairs at the train station with a stroller