NYC antisemitic incidents nearly triple despite other crimes reaching record lows

Antisemitic incidents successful New York City astir tripled successful January arsenic different crimes deed grounds lows, according to constabulary information released connected Tuesday.

Anti-Jewish hatred crimes soared 182%, with 31 reported incidents versus 11 successful January 2025, the NYPD said. These incidents accounted for much than fractional of each hatred transgression successful January, which stood astatine 56 — an summation of 152% implicit the aforesaid play past year.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for the New York and New Jersey portion called the 182% spike "staggering" successful a connection to Fox News Digital.

"From swastikas astatine a playground successful Boro Park to a car ramming astatine Chabad office successful Crown Heights, the Jewish assemblage successful NYC is precise overmuch connected edge," said Scott Richman, ADL determination director. "In the look of this, we impulse Mayor Mamdani to rapidly sanction the adjacent caput of the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism and to name a person who volition some correspond this divers Jewish assemblage and face ALL forms of antisemitism."

CHABAD OFFICIAL SPEAKS OUT AFTER CAR-RAMMING OF JEWISH CENTER, AS NYPD PROBES MOTIVE

A wide presumption shows the Chabad Lubavitch satellite office connected Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, successful New York. City officials said a antheral intentionally and repeatedly crashed his car into the gathering successful what was being investigated arsenic a hatred crime. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

While hatred transgression incidents skyrocketed, the NYPD reported that shooting incidents, shooting victims and murders each deed grounds lows, marking what the NYPD described arsenic "the safest January ever" successful these categories.

The metropolis saw 40 shooting incidents and 47 shooting victims, compared to the erstwhile all-time lows of 50 and 56, acceptable successful 2025 and 2019, respectively, the information shows. Murders fell to 12, breaking the erstwhile grounds of 22 acceptable successful 2018 and 2022.

Overall transgression successful the metropolis dropped 6.7%, with declines successful burglary, robbery, car theft, expansive larceny and felony assault, according to the data.

MAMDANI PLEDGED TO FIGHT FOR ALL BUT SCRAPPED ORDER JEWISH STUDENTS SAY PROTECTED THEM

Former Mayor Eric Adams signed an enforcement bid earlier leaving bureau that tied the city’s explanation of antisemitism to that of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which labeled antisemitism arsenic "hatred toward Jews." The IHRA provides examples of what falls nether its definition, including "[d]enying the Jewish radical their close to self-determination," and "[a]pplying treble standards by requiring of [Israel] a behaviour not expected oregon demanded of immoderate different antiauthoritarian nation.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani scrapped an enforcement bid adopting the IHRA antisemitism modular connected his archetypal time successful office. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images, File)

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Mamdani, however, rescinded the adoption on Jan. 1, his archetypal time serving arsenic mayor.

Fox News Digital’s Preston Mizell contributed to this report.