Hate Crimes against NYC Jews More Than Double in November

Antisemitic hate crimes surged 125 percent in New York City in November compared to the same period last year, according to NYPD data.

There were 45 hate crimes targeting Jewish New Yorkers last month, compared to 20 in November 2021, the New York Post reported. Jews were the group most victimized during the period by a wide margin.

The month was punctuated by several violent acts against the Jewish community. Two men were arrested for plotting to shoot up at a synagogue in the city, a Hasidic father and son were attacked with a BB gun outside a Kosher supermarket in Staten Island, and a man hurled rocks at two synagogues.

The jump in hate crimes comes on the heels of a slew of antisemitic statements made by rapper Kanye West. West expressed his love for Adolf Hitler on Alex Jones’s podcast last Thursday and vowed to go “death con 3” on the Jews in an early October tweet.

In recent weeks, West has been accompanied by Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist and Holocaust denier. The two visited former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence in a move that drew the ire of many supporters.

“We have normalized hate and I continue to say the biggest spreader of this hate is social media…What social media is doing to normalize hate, to give a platform for hate, to spread hate, it’s just really alarming,” Mayor Eric Adams said during a press conference Monday.

Meanwhile in Brooklyn, NBA star shooting guard Kyrie Irving shared a link at the end of October to an antisemitic documentary on Twitter called Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America.

The film was based on a 2015 book of the same name parroting conspiratorial beliefs championed by the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, arguing that black people are the true descendants of the biblical Israelites. The book extensively cites the antisemitic work The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which claims that Jews control the media and economy.

Nets owner Joe Tsai condemned Irving for promoting the movie as well as his lukewarm denunciation of the views expressed in it.

“I’m disappointed that Kyrie appears to support a film based on a book full of anti-semitic disinformation. I want to sit down and make sure he understands this is hurtful to all of us, and as a man of faith, it is wrong to promote hate based on race, ethnicity or religion,” Tsai stated on Twitter.

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