“Shouldn’t there be a plan for how we’re going to deal with it? What’s the answer? Education? We’ve been educating everybody forever for God’s sake, and things are just getting worse.”
Mr Hikind also claimed that if another minority group was experiencing this level of violence committed against it, there would be more concern.
The NYPD reported in December that the number of antisemitic hate crimes in the city during the month of November had increased by 125 per cent from the previous year, with Jewish New Yorkers accounting for 60 per cent of all hate crimes that occurred.
Antisemitic hate crimes this year included the sending of racist notes to several restaurants in the Bronx and the uncovering of a plot to attack synagogues in Manhattan.
The study, based on data provided by the NYPD, also found that 97 per cent of the assaults carried out on Jews were done by members of other minority groups, with over two-thirds, 69 per cent, being African American.
In the UK, crime statistics released by the Home Office showed that despite making up less than one per cent of the UK's population, Jews were the victims of nearly a quarter of all religious hate crimes.
In London, according to the Metropolitan Police, there were 534 antisemitic hate crimes committed between January and November of 2022, with 45 reported in November alone.
In December, a man in Stamford Hill stalked and assaulted an Orthodox Jewish woman, yelling “dirty Jew” before snatching her shopping bag. In August, a woman in North London hit a Jewish woman over the head with a wooden stick, saying “I am doing it because you are a Jew”, while in that same week three people accosted a Jewish teenager by knocking off his hat and saying “f---- Jew”.
