It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Later in the program, we'll talk about the winner

of this year's Nobel Peace Prize announced this morning and also about details and

implementation so far of the ceasefire and prisoner and hostage exchange that has been agreed to,

at least on paper, between the Israeli government and Hamas. That's coming up with Gideon

Rose from the Council on Foreign Relations,

who, among other things, wrote a book called The End of War, or How War's End, forgive me.

So Gideon Rose on all of that coming up. But we start with today's edition of our 30 issues and

30 Days election series. It's issue 15, protecting New Yorkers

from anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim hate as an issue in the New York City mayoral race.

As we come to the end of this week of the second anniversary of the October 7th attack in Israel

and the beginning of the war in Gaza ever since, and even as a ceasefire and hostage and

prisoner exchange may soon take place, expressions of hate, including hate-related crimes,

hate-related violence as well, are a local issue in New York City as elsewhere in the United

States.

This segment will focus not on the Middle East, but on safety and respect in New York City, per se,

as we compare the candidate's approaches.

Some facts as background, NYPD stats cited in the press, say anti-Jewish hate crimes last year

totaled more than all other hate crimes combined.

345 out of 641 reported hate crimes or 54%.

The stats also count 43 anti-Muslim hate crimes.

Zaramamdani's website also notes that 65% of hate crimes targeted Jewish New Yorkers in 2023,

but adds that there was a 73% increase in anti-Muslim crimes that year as well.

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