Prime metropolis cop Jessica Tisch on Tuesday vowed the NYPD would combat antisemitism “irrespective of the place the threats originate” – and slammed lots of the anti-Israel protests at native schools as “particularly despicable.”
The NYPD commissioner delivered her highly effective remarks through the Anti-Defamation League’s “By no means Is Now Summit,” the place she condemned “anti-Jewish hate that was on full show” within the metropolis after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror assault on Israel that led to the Gaza battle.
“As your police commissioner, I promise that the NYPD will proceed to fight antisemitism irrespective of the place the threats originate, and our hate crimes activity pressure will stay on the entrance traces of this combat,” she mentioned.
“We on the NYPD have the backing of on a regular basis New Yorkers who know that essentially the most numerous metropolis on the planet have to be and will likely be a spot the place everybody can reside and work and worship free from concern.”
Tisch, who’s Jewish and began as police commissioner final yr, slammed lots of the metropolis’s anti-Israel protests over the previous 17 months, when antisemitic symbols had been plastered to partitions and hateful slogans had been chanted.
She mentioned the hate “shook the foundations of what we thought being Jewish in New York Metropolis meant.”
Tisch had much more pointed rhetoric for lots of the protesters who demonstrated on school campuses, occasions she described as “particularly despicable.
“Jewish college students had been harassed, intimidated and threatened. Buildings had been ransacked, and campus life was fully upended,” she mentioned, including many protesters directed ire towards Jewish New Yorkers and never Israeli insurance policies.
Large Apple schools resembling Columbia have been an epicenter for hateful anti-Israel demonstrations, together with when protesters occupied a inexperienced house and even a college constructing final yr on the elite college till the NYPD intervened.
Final week, anti-Israel protesters stormed a Barnard Faculty educational constructing in Manhattan and assaulted a university employee.
Tisch made it clear that even when the rhetoric from protesters is “vile,” the NYPD nonetheless has a constitutional obligation to guard free speech throughout rallies.
However anybody who commits a hate crime will face justice, she warned.
Tisch talked about {that a} Canadian ISIS supporter was arrested by a Joint Terrorism Activity Power for allegedly plotting to shoot up a Brooklyn Jewish middle on the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault final yr and a Utah man was arrested final month for allegedly threatened a Large Apple synagogue.
Hate crimes towards New York Jews skyrocketed in 2023 after Oct. 7 and in 2024, Tisch famous.
There have been 47 antisemitic incidents within the metropolis in 2025 via March 2 — or 4 extra in comparison with the identical time span final yr, NYPD information exhibits.
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