Crime & Safety
2 Cases Of Hate, Anti-Semitism Recorded In Teaneck Last Year
There were 216 incidents of hate, extremism and anti-Semitism in New Jersey last year, according to a new report
TEANECK, NJ — There were 216 incidents of hate, extremism and anti-Semitism in New Jersey last year, according to a new report. Two occurred in Teaneck.
The state figure for 2019 decreased from the 452 incidents reported in New Jersey during 2018. But the incidents were no less concerning, the report says.
In Teaneck, the reported incidents were:
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- August: Jewish individual received anti-Semitic comments on his YouTube video.
- July 19: A group of people in a car shot water guns at Jews exiting a synagogue while shouting "F***ing Jews" They drove back again and repeated the same thing.
Read more: Hate, Extremism, Anti-Semitism In 112 NJ Towns In 2019: Report
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The report follows a December attack by a Jersey City kosher grocery store in which six people were killed. Gov. Phil Murphy called the incident a hate crime and an act of domestic terrorism.
The occurrences in New Jersey identified in the ADL report were among the 4,015 examples of extremist and anti-Semitic incidents that happened nationwide in 2019. The figure reported for 2019 is up almost 32 percent from the 3,052 incidents reported in 2018, according to the ADL.
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