Hate epidemic brings swastika spree

A fresh wave of hate crimes has hit the city — including swastikas and anti-Muslim mail — amid a rash of bigoted threats and vandalism around the country, police sources told The Post Wednesday.

Anti-Semitic hate crimes are up 94 percent in the Big Apple this year — with 35 reported as of Sunday versus 18 in the same period in 2016.

Overall, hate crimes are up 55 percent in the city — with 68 reported through Sunday compared with 44 during the same stretch last year.

Mayor de Blasio called it a nationwide epidemic.

“These threats are very troubling and unsettling to members of the Jewish community,” Hizzoner said. “This is becoming more widespread. An atmosphere of hate has been fostered in recent months in America and we have to stop it.”

There were at least four hate crimes in New York City alone on Tuesday.

A Nazi symbol was found carved on a wall inside a Brooklyn courtroom, and vandals left similar offensive scrawls on a Queens sidewalk, a Penn Station wall and in an Upper West Side church, police sources said.

The news comes after someone threatened to blow up every Jewish community center in Staten Island Monday, along with others in Long Island and Westchester County.

Gov. Cuomo is traveling to Israel this weekend and says he will bring a “message of solidarity” in response to the spate of anti-Semitic attacks.

“I want to say to the people of Israel, and I want to say to the Jewish community: In New York, you are not alone, and every person in the state of New York with any decency and understanding of what it means to be a New Yorker stands with you at this moment,”

he said on Wednesday.