A new report from The New York Times states 15 violently anti-Semitic hate crimes have occurred in the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn since October.
According to the Times, each of these incidents have targeted “ultra-Orthodox Jews.”
“In January alone, several Orthodox Jews were punched, seemingly unprovoked, in broad daylight on Kingston Avenue, the main Jewish thoroughfare in Crown Heights,” the report states. “In late January, a 22-year-old Yeshiva student was beaten on the street while calling his parents on the phone in Australia. A few hours later, a 51-year-old man was beaten so badly by the same assailants that he was hospitalized.”
More recently, two men reportedly threw an unidentified object into the window of a Brooklyn synagogue, the Chabad of Bushwick, on Feb. 16. No one was injured.
Overall, anti-Semitic hate crimes have increased by 22 percent from 2018 to 2017 in New York City.
According to an Oct. 31 Times report, the rising anti-Semitism in New York City has received little attention nationally in part “because it refuses to conform to an easy narrative with a single ideological enemy.”
“During the past 22 months, not one person caught or identified as the aggressor in an anti-Semitic hate crime has been associated with a far right-wing group,” the report states, adding that “it is the varied backgrounds of people who commit hate crimes in the city that make combating and talking about anti-Semitism in New York much harder.”
