During the 2013 knockout game spate of violent assaults, all reported "knockout" assaults in New York City targeted Jews.[6]ABC Nightline reported that New York City police believed that antisemitism was likely to be a motive in the attacks, as all eight victims were identified as Jewish.[7]
Brooklyn assaults
2019 saw a spate of attacks in which pedestrians wearing identifiably Jewish clothing were assaulted, beaten and often knocked to the ground by an assailant or group of assailants, many of whom shouted antisemitic slurs.[8][9] The assailants were black and Hispanic.[10]
One assailant, Tiffany Harris, who was released without bail after attacking a Jewish woman, attacked three other Jewish women the very next day; all of the victims were dressed in distinctively Jewish clothing.[11]
Although the Williamsburg and Crown Heights neighborhoods of Brooklyn where most of the assaults have taken place are experiencing gentrification, no similar assaults have been reported on the gentrifiers, although their clothing makes them easy to identify.[10]
A 2019 study found that 28% of African Americans believed that they were seeing more Black people that they personally knew express antisemitism than in the past.[13] In the same study, 19% of African Americans believed that Jewish people were impeding Black progress in America.[13] Four percent (4%) of African Americans self-identified as being Black Hebrew Israelites in 2019.[13]
Maugham Elementary School Adolf Hitler assignment controversy
In Early April 2021,[14] a fifth-grade teacher at Maugham Elementary School, a publicgrammar school in Tenafly, New Jersey, instructed a 5th grade student to dress up as Adolf Hitler and write a first-person essay from the perspective of the Nazileader touting his "accomplishments" as a part of a class assignment.[15][16][17][18][19] The student wrote a biography of Hitler that glorified the Nazi leader, stated that Hitler's "greatest accomplishment was uniting a great mass of German and Austrian people" in his support, framed the Holocaust in a positive light, and added that Hitler was "pretty great".[16][20][21] The student's essay was displayed publicly within the school's hallway during the month of April.[14][16][22][23][24] In May 2021, the details of the school assignment became known to the public, leading to outrage in the community, which has a substantial Jewish population.[14][16][22][25] After initially defending the teacher and the school's actions and asserting that "it is unfair to judge any student or teacher in this matter",[26][27][28] the board of Tenafly Public Schools suspended the teacher and the principal of the school with pay in June 2021 and opened an investigation into the incident.[29][20]
2019 Monsey Hanukkah stabbing at Forshay Road in Monsey, New York by Black Hebrew Israelites member Grafton E. Thomas. 5 injured. Three months after the attack, 72-year-old victim Josef Neumann died from his wounds.[30]