Gov. Kathy Hochul used her Christmas address on Monday to condemn the spike in antisemitic hate crimes New York has seen in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack against Israel and the subsequent war in the Middle East.

“In an ordinary year, my holiday message would be a simple expression of peace and good will,” Hochul said, “But this year is different, this year we must transcend wishes and platitudes. Instead of yearning for peace, let’s actually live it.”

The governor decried the recent wave of incidents targeting Jewish and Muslim New Yorkers, including one earlier this month in which a 28-year-old Iraq native allegedly fired a shotgun outside an Albany synagogue and then yelled, “Free Palestine!”

Reports of anti-Jewish hate crimes in the five boroughs more than tripled after the outbreak of violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip, NYPD stats showed in November, with 69 antisemitic attacks reported compared to just 22 a year ago.

There have also been a series of high-profile attacks against Muslim New Yorkers, including a former White House staffer berating a street vendor on a Manhattan block and an assault in Bay Ridge where two brothers who allegedly shouted ‘f— Islam’ as they pummeled three victims.

“While this war rages on more than 5,000 miles away, the challenges we face have tested the very fabric of unity here at home,” Hochul said.

“Some universities and college campuses around our state have been engulfed in a blizzard of hatred, antisemitism and Islamophobia; gun shots ring out in front of synagogues, street vendors are being harassed because of their religion,” she continued. “Attacks on our friends, on our families, all creating real fear.”

The governor — whose native Buffalo has helped reverse decades of population loss and economic decline by accepting waves of immigrants and refugees from abroad — said the state’s own past struggles with discrimination against new arrivals shows a way forward.

“Our melting-pot of a state has boiled over before: The first immigrants to come to Ellis Island — whether Italian, Russian, Irish, Greek, Polish, German — they all experienced discrimination and targeted hate,” she said.

“Every time the rising tides of hate have threatened to divide us, we’ve charted a course towards unity,” she added. “Acceptance has always been the heartbeat of our collective spirit.”