Jews targeted in 70% of all NYC hate crimes last month, NYPD data shows

Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent.

NEW YORK — Jews were targeted in 70% of all hate crimes in New York City in July, according to NYPD data released on Monday, as the number of hate crimes against Jews and other groups continued to increase since New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office at the start of the year.

Since January 1, 2026, overall hate crimes were up 9.4% compared to the same period last year — from 329 last year to 360 this year.

Confirmed anti-Jewish hate crimes have increased 8.5% in 2026, with 205 so far this year compared to 189 during the same period last year.

The figure for this year amounts, on average, to an antisemitic hate crime in the city every 25 hours. Jewish security officials and hate crimes experts say that many or most hate crimes are not reported to police.

Jews have been targeted in 57% of all hate crimes in the city so far this year, according to the NYPD. Jews make up around 10% of the city’s population.

The figure is similar to the proportion last year, before Mamdani took office.

Hate crimes against Asians, Black people, and White people were down this year, while incidents targeting Hispanic people and Muslims, as well as crimes motivated by sexual orientation and gender, have increased.

Last month, Jews were targeted in 23 confirmed hate crimes, or 70% of the 33 total incidents in the city, a higher proportion than usual. The number of anti-Jewish crimes was 53% higher than the 15 recorded in July 2025.

Also last month, there were five Islamophobic incidents, one each against Asian, White and Black people, one based on sexual orientation, and one against an unspecified religious group.

Jews have been targeted more than all other groups combined every month for the past several years.

In some of the antisemitic incidents last month, a Jewish man was stabbed with a screwdriver on the Upper West Side in an attack in which an Asian man who is not Jewish was also injured; an assailant shoved a 64-year-old Jewish man to the ground while shouting antisemitic slurs in Brooklyn; and a suspect hurled bags of motor oil and feces at two synagogues in Queens.

“The work to uproot antisemitism out of this city is one that will continue until we see hate crimes come to an end in the city,” Mamdani said at a Monday press conference.

“I remain deeply concerned and very troubled by the unacceptable spike in all hate crimes, particularly driven by those targeting Jewish New Yorkers,” City Council Speaker Julie Menin said in a statement.

Menin is Jewish and has led efforts to combat antisemitism in city government.

Shootings, murders and other major crimes such as robberies and assaults are generally down in the city.

The increase in hate crimes is a challenge for Mamdani, who took office on January 1 pledging to combat hatred in the city, and has increased funding for hate crimes prevention.

Jewish leaders have repeatedly said that Mamdani’s anti-Israel rhetoric could stoke anti-Jewish animus in New York, which has the largest Jewish population of any city in the world. A number of prominent Jewish leaders and groups spoke out last month when Mamdani released a video calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal” while acknowledging that as mayor, he lacked the power to arrest the premier when he comes to New York.

The prevalence of hate crimes is affected by a range of factors, many of which are outside of the city government’s control, such as broad social trends, national and international news, and the weather.

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