{"id":198967,"date":"2026-04-16T04:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198967\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T04:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:31:10","slug":"ceo-of-anti-defamation-league-speaks-on-antisemitism-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198967\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO of Anti-Defamation League speaks on antisemitism in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">UPPER WEST SIDE (PIX11) \u2014The CEO of the Anti-Defamation League said Wednesday, \u201cWe are facing the greatest surge of antisemitism we\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jonathan Greenblatt made the comment during a Town Hall on Wednesday night at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue on the Upper West Side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Before the event, Greenblatt told PIX11 News, \u201cIn this moment, we need all of our leaders, in particular our mayor, to stand up and speak out with clarity, demonstrate moral leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mayor Mamdani\u2019s Office did not answer our response for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ADL said there were 976 antisemitic incidents in all of New York City in 2024. The NYPD statistics for the first quarter in 2025 and 2026 show Hate Crimes against Jewish New Yorkers were higher than any other group, including Hispanics and Muslims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER WEST SIDE (PIX11) \u2014The CEO of the Anti-Defamation League said Wednesday, \u201cWe are facing the greatest surge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9381,3862,79215,9,56,63,65,64,329,79216],"class_list":{"0":"post-198967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-anti-defamation-league","9":"tag-antisemitism","10":"tag-jonathan-greenblatt","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-pix11","17":"tag-stephen-wise-free-synagogue"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}