NJ Cop Given Antisemitic Santa Doll At Work, He Claims: Report

TRENTON, NJ — A Trenton police officer plans to sue the city after he claims he was gifted a Santa Claus doll with a handwritten note stating "F--- Jews," according to an NJ.com report.

In the tort claim obtained by the publication, lawyers for the unidentified officer said he was given the doll shortly before Christmas 2022. According to the report, he claimed the note also contained the Star of David, which had been crossed out.

When contacted by NJ.com, the officer's attorney confirmed the officer is Jewish and was subjected to "continued and persistent harassment, a hostile work environment, discrimination in the workplace."

In 2022, nearly 3,700 antisemitic incidents were reported throughout the United States in 2022, a 36 percent rise from the year before, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

A majority of the incidents were characterized as harassment but also included more than 100 assaults and 1,200 cases of vandalism, the report stated.

An audit by the ADL found that, on average, 10 antisemitic incidents occurred each day in 2022 – the highest level of antisemitic activity since the organization started keeping records in 1979.

Jewish Americans continue to fear for their safety after a large-scale assault carried out by Hamas killed more than 1,200 people in Israel and wounded thousands. Israel responded with military airstrikes that have killed at least 1,500 Palestinians in Gaza, according to CNN, including 500 children.

Oren Segal, vice president for the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism, called it a "very painful time" for Jewish people in the United States, according to CNN.

"The level of hatred that we already were dealing with on the ground, combined with what people are seeing online, just kind of all came together at the worst moment — perhaps, one of the worst moments in Israeli history," Segal told the network.