5 stabbed in the 8th NYC area anti-semitic attack/assault this week

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/29/us/new-york-stabbing-rabbi-home/index.html

https://www.pix11.com/news/local-news/there-were-alleged-attacks-on-jewish-new-yorkers-almost-every-day-last-week

Edited December 29, 2019 by clapclapclap

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Damn 

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A lot of anti-Semitic attacks in New York

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Not saying they weren’t but due to the crap ass reporting, a chunk of those listed on The pix11 list could just as easily be attacks on people who just happened to be Jewish. Doesn’t make it better by any means but also not necessarily anti Semitic either.

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Not saying they weren’t but due to the crap ass reporting, a chunk of those listed on The pix11 list could just as easily be attacks on people who just happened to be Jewish. Doesn’t make it better by any means but also not necessarily anti Semitic either.

It’s the same thing when a white guy commits a crime against a minority, specifically a black guy. It’s automatically a hate crime. It’s lazy.

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Some of the incidences may not have been hate crimes but most were.

 

On Saturday night, more than 100 people were gathered in the home when a man walked in and pulled out a knife that one witness said looked "almost like a broomstick."

Monday

A 65-year-old man said he was punched and kicked near Manhattan by another man who was yelling "F*** you, Jew," the New York Police Department said. Steven Jorge, 28, was arrested. It was not clear if he had an attorney.

Tuesday

A 25-year-old man in Brooklyn told police a group of people began yelling anti-Semitic slurs at him as he walked. One of them also threw their drink at him.

Wednesday

On Christmas Day, a 40-year-old man dressed in "traditional religious clothing" walking home was approached by an individual who blocked his path. That individual allegedly punched the victim in the face when the man tried to let him pass.

Friday

Tiffany Harris, 30, was arrested and charged with harassment as a hate crime after she allegedly slapped three women in the head and face, police told CNN.

Also on Friday, a black man walked into the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters and allegedly threatened to shoot and kill people in the center.

 

 

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NYT article

N.Y.P.D. Steps Up Patrols After Reports of 8 Anti-Semitic Incidents

Police presence will increase in three Brooklyn neighborhoods in response to a surge of reported hate crimes.

One of the reported incidents occurred at Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.Credit...Yuki Iwamura for The New York Times

By Andrea Salcedo and Sean Piccoli

• Dec. 27, 2019

 

The New York Police Department is stepping up patrols in three Brooklyn neighborhoods after a surge of anti-Semitic crimes reported to the police in the last two weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday.

Police officers are scheduled to patrol the streets of Borough Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg, neighborhoods with a large numbers of Jewish residents, where they also plan to visit houses of worship and other “critical areas in the community,” Mr. de Blasio added on Twitter.

“Anti-Semitism is an attack on the values of our city — and we will confront it head-on,” Mr. de Blasio said on Twitter.

The announcement of the increased foot and car patrols comes as the Police Department’s Hates Crimes Task Force investigates eight “alarming” anti-Semitic incidents since Dec. 13, the police said.

The latest two incidents reported to the authorities happened on Friday — both in Crown Heights, the police said. Shortly before 7 a.m., an unidentified man walked into the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters, approached a member of the Hasidic community and threatened to shoot someone, the police said.

The police were still looking for the man who made the threats, who ran east on Eastern Parkway, toward the Crown Heights-Utica Avenue subway station.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio said increased patrols began on Friday in Brooklyn’s Borough Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg neighborhoods.Credit...Yuki Iwamura for The New York Times

Earlier in Crown Heights, a little after midnight, a woman identified as Tiffany Harris, 30, slapped three women in the face, the police said.

At a news conference on Friday afternoon, Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said Ms. Harris admitted to slapping the women because she believed they were Jewish. Ms. Harris has been charged with first-degree harassment.

Despite the reports, Crown Heights was humming with pedestrian traffic on Friday afternoon, with Hanukkah underway. Cars and vans playing songs in Yiddish rolled up Kingston Avenue, where families ran errands before sundown.

David Lahainy, a Torah student at the Chabad Lubavitch headquarters, said he had noticed more police officers in the neighborhood.

“We need more,” said Mr. Lahainy, who carried two bouquets of roses from a flower stand that is near a mural of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who died in 1994 and led the Lubavitch Hasidic community based in Crown Heights.

Mr. Lahainy, 26, paraphrased the rabbi’s saying that although Jews should take care of themselves, they cannot live with fear and should trust God.

Anti-Semitic hate crime complaints have increased by 18 percent this year, according to data provided by the Police Department. The department received 214 anti-Semitic hate crime complaints as of Sunday — 32 more than in the same period last year.

“We take every one seriously, whether it’s one or eight,” the police commissioner, Dermot F. Shea, said a news conference on Friday. “I would argue that one is too much.”

Moishe Mindick, a music and Judaism teacher who lives in Crown Heights, said he and his neighbors were taking action. Mr. Mindick, 31, belongs to a WhatsApp group of more than 90 people called Make Crown Heights Safe Again, which he said was organizing patrols in response to the incidents.

“I think people are realizing that that might be part of the problem, that we’re easy targets and people think we don’t stand up for ourselves,” he said.

“You fight darkness with light,” Mr. Mindick added. “But we also live in the real world.”

Others took issue with any suggestion that Crown Heights was under siege. “I am not looking over my shoulder,” Malka Stern, a resident, said.

Evan Bernstein, the Anti-Defamation League’s regional director for New York and New Jersey, said that Mr. De Blasio’s action was a good step, but that more needed to be done to combat anti-Semitism in New York City.

“Policing is important, but it can’t be the only solution,” Mr. Bernstein said. “There needs to be a real plan at the micro and macro level with elected officials, to get to as many young people as possible. No one is born hating. Hating someone is a learned behavior.”