The New York City Police Department's new statistics show a significant increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes targeting Jewish riders on New York City subways, the Jewish Press website reports today (November 9, 2019).
Since October 20, the NYPD has logged 42 hate-crime complaints involving anti-Semitic acts in the subway -- a 162 percent increase over similar incidents reported through that same date in 2018.
The incidents include a June 13 encounter at a station in Brooklyn in which a 26-year-old man yelled "Heil, Hitler!" and "All Jews must die!" at a 33-year-old man before grabbing the latter's phone and tossing it at a train, according to the Brooklyn district attorney's office.
Anti-Semitic graffiti and assaults on Jewish people also accounted for nearly 60 percent of subway hate crimes in 2019, with the highest number of them occurring in the borough of Brooklyn.
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