New York is No. 1 . . . in anti-Semitic hate crimesBy NY Post Editorial Board
April 27, 2022
New York has hit another ugly milestone: The Anti-Defamation League reports that the state led the nation in anti-Semitic incidents in 2021, with a 24% jump over 2020.
And like clockwork, just ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, our legislative masterminds have derailed a bill to require a look at how New York public schools are teaching Holocaust history.
Those hate-crime numbers are even uglier up close: 183 incidents of harassment, nearly as many cases of vandalism — and a terrifying 51 assaults, up an eye-popping 325% over 2020 and the highest ever recorded since the ADL started keeping track in 1979. Attacks on Jewish institutions, like synagogues and schools, jumped 41%.
Some 60% of the incidents hit in New York City, and 94% of the assaults — two-thirds of them in Brooklyn, targeting mainly Orthodox and Hasidic Jews.
The ‘burbs also saw bad news, with incident numbers leaping 28% in Westchester and 100% in Rockland County.
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https://nypost.com/2022/04/27/new-york-is-1-in-anti-jewish-hate-crimes/
