Almost a fifth of hate crimes so far this year in the US city of Seattle have targeted Jews, despite them making up just one per cent of the population, new official figures have revealed.
Of the 66 hate crimes recorded in the first seven months of this year, 13 (19.7 per cent) have been against Jews.
Likewise, from January to the end of July, 7.2 per cent of all of the 511 crimes with what Seattle calls "bias elements" and non-crimes that involve bias which the city has recorded targeted Jews, according to official city data.
And of the 259 crimes with "bias elements," in which the bias was a secondary motivation, 11 (4.2%) targeted Jews.
It comes after even more stark data emerged from New York City, where the Jewish population is much more substantial.
Almost 70 per cent of the 33 “confirmed hate crimes” in the Big Apple last month targeted Jews, according to NYPD statistics.
This marked a 53.3 per cent increase compared with 15 anti-Jewish hate crimes in the city in the same month last year.
There have been 360 "confirmed" hate crimes so far in 2026, up 9.4 per cent from the 329 in 2025. Of the 360, 205 have targeted Jews (56.9 per cent).
Julie Menin, the first Jewish speaker of the New York City Council, told JNS: “I remain deeply concerned and very troubled by the unacceptable spike in hate crimes, particularly driven by those targeting Jewish New Yorkers."
The data underscores why her "very first initiative was a five-point plan to combat antisemitism," she added.
"I will not waver in the fight to protect our communities from hatred.”
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