Following a recent spate of attacks against Jews in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has pledged to devote serious effort to finding the perpetrators and restoring security. Governor Kathy Hochul has promised to assist in the investigations.

Over the weekend, vandals scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti across a dental lab, while others smashed the windshield of a school-bus with Hebrew lettering on the side. Upon learning about the graffiti, Adams released a statement saying that “this would be disgusting anytime but it’s especially outrageous as we come to the end of Shabbos. We won’t let this vicious hatred go unanswered in our city.” Luke Tress reports:

A slew of anti-Jewish incidents in the New York region in recent weeks has included numerous acts of vandalism such as spray-painting swastikas, verbal abuse, blasting Jews with snow, spitting on children, and physical violence. On Sunday in Crown Heights, an assailant hit a Jewish man in the face while passing him on the street, knocking off his hat. He was detained by a volunteer patrol group and then arrested.

Saturday reports said a police crossing guard in Manhattan’s Upper West Side was fired earlier in the month for making anti-Semitic comments against Jewish parents and children.

“Push your Jewish kids into the street and get hit by a bus,” she told one parent.

“Make no mistake,” said President Biden after the news broke of the murder of six hostages in Gaza, “Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes.” While this sentiment is correct, especially given that an American citizen was among the dead, the White House has thus far shown little inclination to act upon it. The editors of National Review remark:

Hamas’s execution of [Hersh Goldberg-Polin] should not be treated as merely an issue of concern for Israel but as a brazen act against the United States. It would send a terrible signal if the response from the Biden-Harris administration were to move closer to Hamas’s position in cease-fire negotiations. Instead, Biden must follow through on his declaration that Hamas will pay.

Richard Goldberg lays out ten steps the U.S. can take, none of which involve military action. Among them:

The Department of Justice should move forward with indictments of known individuals and groups in the United States providing material support to Hamas and those associated with Hamas, domestically and abroad. The Departments of the Treasury and State should also target Hamas’s support network of terrorist entities in and out of the Gaza Strip. . . . Palestinian organizations that provide material support to Hamas and coordinate attacks with them should be held accountable for their actions. Hamas networks in foreign countries, including South Africa, should be targeted with sanctions as well.

Pressure on Qatar should include threats to remove Qatar’s status as a major non-NATO ally; move Al Udeid air-base assets; impose sanctions on Qatari officials, instrumentalities, and assets; and impose sanctions on Qatar’s Al-Jazeera media network. Qatar should be compelled to close all Hamas offices and operations, freeze and turn over to the United States all Hamas-connected assets, and turn over to the United States or Israel all Hamas officials who remain in the country.