The NYPD has dispatched officers to patrol yeshivas, synagogues, and different Jewish websites all through the 5 boroughs following Israel’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear services within the Center East, the division mentioned Friday.
“The NYPD is tracking the situation in the Middle East,” the NYPD mentioned on X. “Out of an abundance of caution, we’re deploying additional resources to Jewish, Israeli & other sites throughout NYC. We’re coordinating with our federal partners & we’ll continue to monitor for any potential impact to NYC.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu introduced late Thursday that he has ordered his army to launch an assault on Iran’s nuclear and missile websites to go off an imminent menace that Iran would construct nuclear bombs, although it stays unclear how shut the nation is to reaching that or whether or not Iran had really been planning a strike.
Iran maintains that its nuclear program is for civilian functions solely.
First-responders collect outdoors a constructing that was hit by an Israeli strike in Tehran on June 13, 2025. (Picture by MEGHDAD MADADI/TASNIM NEWS/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
“It could be a year. It could be within a few months,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed as he vowed to pursue the assault for so long as essential to “remove this threat.”
The Israeli assault killed Iran’s high army officers and ramped up the potential for an all-out warfare within the Center East. Iran shortly retaliated to the Israeli offensive, sending a swarm of drones at Israel as Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned of “severe punishment.”
President Trump urged Iran to achieve a cope with Washington on its nuclear program, warning on his Fact Social platform that Israel’s assaults “will only get worse.”
Individuals and first-responders collect outdoors a constructing that was hit by an Israeli strike in Tehran on June 13, 2025. (Picture by MEGHDAD MADADI/TASNIM NEWS/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
The NYPD had already ordered extra patrols at Jewish websites all through town following violent antisemitic assaults at a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. that left two Jewish embassy staff lifeless and a flamethrower assault on Jewish marchers in Boulder, Colo.
The division’s determination to focus totally on Jewish locales within the metropolis because the battle within the Center East escalates drew criticism on social media.
“Who is NYPD to take sides in a foreign conflict?” the X put up requested. “And to guard the aggressors who attacked unprovoked?
FILE – Members of the Orthodox Jewish group stroll outdoors of Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters as NYPD officers stand guard on June 2, 2025 in Borough Park, Brooklyn. (Picture by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photos)
The NYPD has seen an uptick in antisemitic crimes within the metropolis for the reason that starting of the Israel-Hamas warfare on Oct. 7, 2023.
Mayor Adams final month mentioned that shows of antisemitism in New York Metropolis since then have been “constant.”
Whereas the NYPD noticed a 54% drop in anti-Jewish hate crimes in Could in comparison with the identical month final 12 months, from 52 to 24, the variety of antisemitic incidents amounted to just about 60% of all hate crimes investigated that month, officers mentioned.
