The Anti-Defamation League recorded 3,697 antisemitic incidents throughout the U.S. in 2022, the highest number since it started tracking such cases in 1979 and a 36% increase from the previous year.
throughout the U.S. in 2022, the highest number since it started tracking such cases in 1979 and a 36% increase from the previous year. Of the 111 physical assaults recorded last year, more than half occurred in New York City — and almost all of those were in Brooklyn.
“This is targeted, hateful violence, attacking the most visible, making them the most vulnerable segment of our community,” he said. Anti-Jewish incidents accounted for the largest share of confirmed hate crimes reported to the NYPD last year, according to its. Of the 607 confirmed incidents, 262 were anti-Jewish — or about 43%. Anti-Asian hate crimes were the second-most common, with 83 confirmed incidents, followed by 73 hate crimes against gay men and 53 against Black people.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said such cases are difficult to argue in court, because prosecutors have to show that someone had hateful intent.
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