Los Angeles County in California has experienced an all-time high number of hate crimes targeting the Jewish community, according to figures compiled by a local government agency and released last week.

Issued by the LA County Commission on Human Relations (LACCHR), the data for 2023 showed a 45 percent increase in overall reported hate crimes to a total of 1,350, the largest number in the history of the commission’s annual analysis, with violence against nearly all groups spiking last year.

The numbers showed an unprecedented increase specifically in antisemitic hate crimes, which rose 91 percent last year from 127 to 242 in what the commission described as “the largest number of anti-Jewish crimes ever recorded.”

“Although the numbers reported today are unprecedented for multiple communities throughout LA County, they signal that more people are coming forward to report hate crimes and are refusing to accept the normalization of hate,” LACCHR president Helen Chin said in a statement. “The anti-hate programs led by our commission provide LA County residents with a system where people can report hate and receive help. By standing together, we can extinguish hate and discrimination in every community and reinforce that hate and discrimination have no place here.”