Via JTA News: A dramatic rise in attacks on Asian-Americans has led to an overall increase in hate crimes in New York City during 2021, while the number of crimes targeting Jews decreased slightly. Jews in New York were targeted in 54 hate crimes reported between Jan. 1 and May 2, down from 58 such crimes in the same period in 2020, according to New York Police Department figures released Monday. The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force said the city recorded 180 hate crimes through May 2, compared to 104 such crimes during the same period last year, a 73%
Read More +White supremacists encouraging their members to spread coronavirus to cops, Jews, FBI says
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Via ABC News: Racist extremist groups, including neo-Nazis and other white supremacists, are encouraging members who contract novel coronavirus disease to spread the contagion to cops and Jews, according to intelligence gathered by the FBI. The FBI alert, which went out on March 19, 2020, told local police agencies that extremists want their followers to try to use spray bottles to spread bodily fluids to cops on the street. The extremists are also directing followers to spread the disease to Jews by going “any place they may be congregated, to include markets, political offices, businesses and places of worship.”
Read More +Via BBC News: German police have raided premises nationwide linked to an anti-Semitic, far-right movement called Reichsburger (Citizens of the Reich). Neo-Nazi propaganda and firearms were seized in the raids in 10 of Germany’s 16 states. Reichsburger is estimated to have 19,000 members in Germany.
Read More +3 soldiers hurt in suspected car-ramming attack in central West Bank | The Times of Israel
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Three Israeli soldiers were injured when a Palestinian man rammed his car into them along a central West Bank highway in a suspected deliberate attack Monday, officials said. The Palestinian driver was shot dead after hitting servicemen with his vehicle near the Karmei Tzur settlement. The driver was later identified by Palestinian officials as Ramzi Abu Yabes, a male nurse from the nearby Deheishe refugee camp. Source: 3 soldiers hurt in suspected car-ramming attack in central West Bank | The Times of Israel
Read More +Some people in a Hancock Park neighborhood said a driver targeted them because they are Jewish. Now police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime. The suspect in the case, identified as Mohammed Mohammed, was arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon. Source: Hate Crime: Driver Targets Jews In Hancock Park « CBS Los Angeles
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