Extra New Yorkers and People who outwardly establish as Jewish are being violently attacked or threatened, in accordance with an unsettling new report launched Wednesday.
The variety of assaults concentrating on Jewish victims in New York jumped practically 10% final yr from 82 to 90 and 4% nationwide, in accordance with the Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit of antisemitic incidents launched Wednesday.
New York — which has the biggest Jewish inhabitants of any state — accounted for 44% of all documented antisemitic assaults nationally.
However there was an general dip in antisemitic incidents, with a 19% decline in New York State in 2025 and a 33% drop nationally — though the totals had been nonetheless double the totals in 2022, earlier than the Hamas terror assaults on Oct. 7, 2023 that sparked an Israel marketing campaign in Gaza.
In distinction with the general discount, Brooklyn noticed a ten% enhance in antisemitic incidents in 2025, totaling 278, in comparison with 253 in 2024.
Bodily assaults rose in Brooklyn from 32 to 50, accounting for one quarter of all documented antisemitic assaults nationwide, the ADL mentioned.
Incidents concentrating on Orthodox Jews recognized by their garb in Brooklyn elevated 39% year-over-year, from 38 to 53.
Jewish-motivated incidents in opposition to Brooklyn companies jumped from 23 in 2024 to 40 in 2025.
“Whereas it’s encouraging that reported antisemitic incidents in New York fell by practically 20% in
2025, the 1,160 instances which we tracked and responded to stays double the quantity earlier than the large spike submit 10/7, and I do know firsthand that too many New Yorkers lived in concern in 2025 of being the sufferer of antisemitism,” mentioned ADL New York / New Jersey Regional Director Scott Richman.
“This decline does mark the primary reversal of an upward pattern that has persevered yearly since 2021, however the numbers clarify that a lot work stays.”
Final yr marked one of the crucial violent and lethal durations for American Jews since ADL started monitoring knowledge in 1979.
Three individuals had been murdered in antisemitic assaults final yr: two Israeli diplomats gunned down within the Might 21, 2025, capturing outdoors the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, and one sufferer who died from accidents sustained within the June 1, 2025, firebombing assault at a “Run for Their Lives” occasion in Boulder, Colorado.
An arsonist additionally torched the residence of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who’s Jewish, in an tried political assassination.
Examples of incidents concentrating on Brooklyn and different metropolis Jewish residents in 2025 embrace:
- In February, a Jewish woman was bodily assaulted in South Williamsburg, dragged to the bottom by her hair, and thrown right into a pile of trash.
- In April, a Brooklyn resident knocked on a Jewish neighbor’s door and mentioned, “We didn’t kill sufficient of you Jews.”
- In Might, a gaggle chased two Jewish individuals with a knife whereas yelling “Heil Hitler” and “Free Palestine.”
- In June, a thug harassed a Jewish man and his kids strolling dwelling from synagogue, then bodily attacked a bystander who intervened.
- Additionally in June, a Jewish household was attacked by a hoodlum who grabbed their stroller holding their child and mentioned, “You guys transfer [out] of the neighborhood.”
- In December, a thug on a Manhattan subway punched a person sporting a hat denouncing antisemitism,
- Additionally in December, an Orthodox Jew was stabbed leaving his synagogue in Crown Heights. The attacker mentioned, “F–ok these Jews. If the Holocaust occurred, it wouldn’t be an issue.”
ADL famous that it’s pushing for added state and federal safety grants to assist defend Jews and publishes an annual report card that charges how faculties and universities deal with antisemitism to assist scale back incidents.
The Jewish civil rights group additionally helps cease potential threats.
In February 2025, because the Jewish sabbath was approaching, a person posted on-line threats to Central Synagogue in Manhattan, stating that he was driving cross-country from Utah to hold out an assault that night.
ADL’s Middle on Extremism and Group Safety Initiative coordinated with the New York Metropolis Police Division, New Jersey State Police, the New Jersey Workplace of Homeland Safety, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
With intelligence supplied by ADL and CSI, the perpetrator was nabbed on the mouth of the Lincoln Tunnel on the New Jersey facet earlier than coming into town, stopping what may have been a lethal assault on worshippers, the report mentioned.
