Has there been a rise in anti-Semitism in NYC recently

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18 Dec 2019, 3:56 pm

An Israeli college student says she was subjected to a “disturbing,” foul-mouthed anti-Semitic tirade and was physically attacked on a New York City subway last week by a passenger who got annoyed after she was asked to move her bags. Lihi Aharon, who immigrated to the United States from a village outside of Tel Aviv in 2013.

She added: “It’s disturbing and it’s scary to think that our world is going in that direction. We must stop this.”

The New York City Police Department said the incident happened on the southbound 2 train near Wall Street in New York City on Thursday night around 11:15.

Aharon said she encountered the woman, who police identified as Zarinah Ali, 38, as she got on the subway on her way home to Brooklyn after an induction ceremony at her school, The Borough of Manhattan Community College.

She had asked Ali to move her stuff because she was occupying three seats on a “full” train, but she refused. Aharon said a seat became available across from Ali, so she sat down.

“I happened to sit next to a visibly Orthodox Jewish man,” Aharon told Fox News. “He had a beard and a yarmulke and he turned out also to be an Israeli.”

“She was yelling at him, shouting at him, ‘Allahu Akbar’ [God is most great] and ‘Allah will kill you,’ ‘nasty Jews,’ she was citing clauses from the Koran and ‘when you see a Jew you got to kill him’ and she used a lot of profanity.”

She added, “I was talking Hebrew so she knew I was Jewish.”

Aharon said she immediately took out her phone and some of the comments were captured on video.

In the video, Ali can be heard spouting phrases including, “You f---in nasty a-- Jews” and “You stinking a— Jew.”

“After a few minutes she stood up and smacked my phone, she came over and smacked my phone down, and I told my friend, ‘Record this,’ I’m telling her in Hebrew ,‘Record this’ and my friend started recording and then she smacked my friend’s phone out of her hands twice,” Aharon told Fox News.

“Then she came to me, she ran to me and pointed on my face and then she was grabbing my face, like she was trying to pull my face off and she scratched me so hard and my face started bleeding.”

Aharon said she hit the emergency button on the subway and asked people to call 911.

Aharon said after Ali, who police said is from South Orange, N.J., was arrested, the Jewish man who had been sitting next to her told her that she was yelling at him before Aharon got on the train, saying negative comments about Jewish people and the shooting that unfolded at a kosher market in Jersey City, N.J., last week.

“I feel like lately anti-Semitism is raising its ugly head all over the world, not just New York.
Me, as a student, I see it on college campuses all the time.”

Ali has been charged with assault, according to the NYPD. Ali, who has been arrested in New York City six times before, mostly for assault, was intoxicated when she was arrested on Thursday night.

Source: Israeli student subjected to foul-mouthed anti-Semitic tirade on New York subway


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18 Dec 2019, 4:03 pm

It's nothing new, but it has sharply increased in both frequency and severity since January 20, 2017.


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18 Dec 2019, 4:41 pm

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It's nothing new, but it has sharply increased in both frequency and severity since January 20, 2017.


Sounds like you are implying that it is due to the inauguration of the 58th president of the U.S. It seems more likely it has to do with someone screaming "Allahu Akbar", at least in this particular case.


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18 Dec 2019, 4:59 pm

"Allahu Akbar" is Arabic for "God is Great" -- a Muslim term.

"Shalom Aleichem" is Hebrew for "Peace of G-D" -- a Jewish term.

Anti-Semitism is hatred directed toward Jews and Jewish people.

And while correlation does not imply causation, there is a very strong case for abductive reasoning here.


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18 Dec 2019, 6:14 pm

White nationalism does not explain this. The assailants have been pretty much people of color.
What is causing the spike in anti-Semitic attacks in Brooklyn?

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Days after a series of attacks against Jews across Brooklyn, the Anti-Defamation League announced that it would double funding for a school program combating hate.

But city officials say more than education is needed to stop the rash of attacks, which have spiked across this city in 2019. That’s because the problem is hard to diagnose.

Is it the local effect of a national rise in anti-Semitism? The resurfacing of old resentments? Are Jews being scapegoated for the impact of gentrification? Is the persistent influence of anti-Semitic leaders to blame? Or is it just kids acting out?

“We need a much more aggressive approach,” said Devorah Halberstam, whose son was killed in a terrorist attack on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994 and now serves as director of external relations at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

At a news conference Tuesday in Brooklyn to announce the new ADL initiative, New York City officials were candid about the urgency of the problem.

On Friday night, surveillance video captured a man throwing a brick through the window of a Hasidic girls’ school in Crown Heights. On the same night in the Borough Park neighborhood, at least three identifiably Orthodox men were punched by assailants. Also in Borough Park, multiple Orthodox Jews in Borough Park had eggs thrown at them over the weekend.

On Friday, a 16-year-old boy turned himself in to police and was arrested in connection with at least three attacks on Jews. He was charged with two counts of aggravated harassment.

Anti-Semitic incidents in the city have increased significantly this year, according to data from the New York Police Department. Through September, there have been 163 reported incidents, up from 108 over the same period last year — an increase of 50 percent. Anti-Semitic incidents make up a majority of reported hate crimes in New York City.

In September, the Mayor’s Office announced that it had hired Deborah Lauter, a former ADL executive, to head its new Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes.

At the news conference, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said the recent attacks were mostly committed by teenagers who may not understand the gravity of, for example, egging a Hasidic family or drawing a swastika on a building.

Evan Bernstein, the ADL’s New York regional director, says kids in the city are learning to hate from a mix of influences, including parents who might have lived through the 1991 Crown Heights riots, which began after a black boy was killed accidentally by a car escorting Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late head of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, which is headquartered in the neighborhood. The death touched off three days of rioting in which black youths attacked religious Jews, killing one.

“You have Louis Farrakhan, you have anti-Semitic rhetoric on the internet,” Bernstein told JTA. “They’re getting this information from somewhere. They’re getting this information from their parents, or they’re getting it from social media and from other platforms.”

But Rabbi Eli Cohen, executive director of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, told JTA that he believes the influence of anti-Semitic leaders is a lot weaker now than it was in the 1990s. Leaders of the African-American community in Crown Heights are partners in stopping anti-Semitism, said Cohen, who attributes the rise in attacks to a general anti-police sentiment.

“What’s going on right now is that authority is breaking down a little, and people are feeling emboldened to defy authority,” said Cohen, who also has run educational programs about the Jewish community in local schools. “Kids that want to act out feel there’s nothing holding them back anymore.”

Pastor Gil Monrose, who leads a church in Crown Heights and serves as the borough president’s director of faith-based and clergy initiatives, pointed to gentrification as a driver of increased attacks on Jews. As rising housing prices draw in newcomers and push out some longtime residents, locals may become frustrated and seek a scapegoat. Monrose also noted that overall crime levels are high in Crown Heights.

Bernstein noted that some landlords in the borough are Orthodox, including some on lists of the worst landlords in New York City, which can breed anti-Semitic stereotypes.

Several officials said that Orthodox Jews are bearing the brunt of a rising climate of anti-Semitism because they appear visibly Jewish and become obvious targets for those who want to hurt Jews.

Said Adams, “People with hate in their heart are specifically targeting this population because they know that here is a person of Jewish faith.”


Black Jewish relations in New York especially Brooklyn have been fraught long before the 1991 Crown Heights riot,
New York City teachers' strike of 1968
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The New York City teachers' strike of 1968 was a months-long confrontation between the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean Hill–Brownsville neighborhoods of Brooklyn, and New York City’s United Federation of Teachers. It began with a one day walkout in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district. It escalated to a citywide strike in September of that year, shutting down the public schools for a total of 36 days and increasing racial tensions between Blacks and Jews.

Thousands of New York City teachers went on strike in 1968 when the school board of the neighborhood, which is now two separate neighborhoods, transferred a set of teachers and administrators, a normal practice at the time. The newly created school district, in a mostly black neighborhood, was an experiment in community control over schools—the dismissed workers were almost all white and Jewish.

The United Federation of Teachers (UFT), led by Albert Shanker, demanded the teachers' reinstatement and accused the community-controlled school board of anti-semitism. At the start of the school year in 1968, the UFT held a strike that shut down New York City's public schools for nearly two months.

The strike pitted community against union, highlighting a conflict between local rights to self-determination and teachers' universal rights as workers.


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26 Dec 2019, 9:51 am

NYPD Investigating String of Anti-Semitic Attacks in City Over Three-Day Span

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The NYPD said they are looking into at least three incidents of possible hate-based attacks against Jewish people over the past three days — and all happening during Hanukkah and on Christmas.

The most recent confirmed attack happened in the early morning hours on Tuesday on Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights, when a 25-year-old Jewish man was walking on the sidewalk when he saw a large group of people walking toward him, police said.

That man told police that members of the group yelled “f—k you Jew” before hurling a Slurpie at him. The group can be heard laughing and one appears to be filming the incident as they quickly flee shortly after.

About 15 hours later, a man in his 50s was standing in front of a building on Union Avenue in the same neighborhood when he said he saw as many as six people approach him after 5 p.m. on December 24, according to police.

One of the people who came up to the man punched him in the back of the head, and the group took off.

Police said there was an additional assault in Borough Park around 1 a.m. Christmas morning. A 40-year-old man was on 13th Avenue when he was punched in the face by a suspect who immediately fled in the direction of 43rd Street.

Cops in that case however said the incident is not yet being investigated as a biased attack.

The first attack occurred in the morning of December 23 on the Upper East Side, according to the NYPD. A 65-year-old man was hit in the face with a closed fist after the suspect made an anti-Semitic remark, then was kicked while on the ground. The victim suffered cuts to his face and hand, police said.

Steven Jorge, of Miami, Florida, was later arrested and charged in the beating. The 28-year-old was charged with assault as a hate crime. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney.

Former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind said the victim had been wearing a black yarmulke and checking his cellphone when the attack happened.

"The attacks against Jews are out of control, and we must have a concrete strategy to address the rise of these attacks," said Hikind, founder of Americans Against Antisemitism. "What is happening in New York City with attacks against Jews has created a deep and growing concern in our community."

The attacks come less than two weeks after a deadly shooting rampage at a New Jersey kosher market that Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said was driven by hatred of Jews and law enforcement.

The spate of attacks captured the attention of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, with both condemning the actions.

"This horrific and cowardly act of antisemitism is repugnant to our values, and it's even more despicable that it occurred over the holidays," Cuomo said in a statement. "We have absolutely zero tolerance for bigotry and hate, and we will continue to call it out whenever and wherever it rears its ugly head."

The mayor echoed those sentiments, saying that it is “not enough to condemn anti-Semitism — we have to confront it,” in a tweet Christmas night.

“The despicable crimes committed against our Jewish community over the last 24 hours are an attack on ALL New Yorkers,” de Blasio added.

Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League on Wednesday offered a $10,000 reward for information regarding the attacks.

"We are appalled at the sheer frequency and aggressive nature of these incidents," Evan Bernstein, the group's regional director in New York and New Jersey, said in a news release. "They're made particularly heinous by the fact they are occurring during a time when society is supposed to come together in peace for the holidays, and as the Jewish community is particularly on edge as it's reeling from the deadly attack in Jersey City on Dec. 10."


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26 Dec 2019, 10:52 am

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Ali has been charged with assault, according to the NYPD. Ali, who has been arrested in New York City six times before, mostly for assault, was intoxicated when she was arrested on Thursday night.

It would seem to me this had a lot to do with being sh!t-faced and angry, in addition to Anti-Semitism.

Anti-Semitism is an infuriatingly complicated subject. I would first like to say that I don't think Anti-Semitism is ingrained in American culture in the same way as in European, or even Canadian culture. This is a hard point to make because, as this news report makes clear, Anti-Semitism exists in the US and always has (consider Henry Ford as a well-known example). Nevertheless, I will maintain that Anti-Semites have always been much farther from the mainstream of American thought than elsewhere in the Western World.

But there have most definitely been inroads. Certainly fading memory of the Holocaust is one factor, however there is a fundamental mechanism whereby Anti-Semitism has gained respectability in recent decades. This process has its origins in Post-War Europe but has influenced North America. So what happened (sorry I can't document much of this) is that many Europeans, for whom Anti-Semitism was always a fundamental part of their world-view, despite being happy that Germany had been defeated, were nevertheless enraged that Jews had not been wiped out due to Nazism. In particular, the rise of the State of Israel, armed and willing to militarily confront existential threats, was a catastrophe that threatened their core beliefs. Eventually they discovered the best way to act on this was to take up the Palestinian Cause. Now I don't want to suggest there is anything intrinsically wrong with supporting Palestinian refugees or residents of Gaza and the "West Bank", in fact if you or much of your family is Palestinian, then I would expect you to hold such views.

However, considering all the examples of injustice and abuse of human rights around the world, whenever I see a person (particularly a white person) in a country like England take up Anti-Zionism as their cause célèbre, I clearly see a dog whistle for old-fashioned, traditional European Anti-Semitism. This is the origin, but it basically legitimizes (indirectly) Anti-Semitism as a humanitarian point of view, giving it respectability that has led to its being increasingly tolerated, if not accepted, in universities (including in the US) and other public venues. In the US, it has been promoted as a legitimate prejudice for angry members of minority groups who have been given a vague impression that Palestinians are victims of a racist ideology and so deserve their sympathy, whether or not these people are well-informed about the history of the Middle East.

Ironically, I don't have the impression that most actual Muslims in the US are particularly Anti-Semitic, even though they (obviously) don't support Zionism. Source: I work in IT and have contact with Muslims almost every day.

Regarding my initial remark: I think we have to acknowledge that there has been a huge rise in anger in the US since the beginning of the current century. I could contrast that to the 1990s, a time when the economy was also thought to be in good shape, but there was substantially less anger as I can recall. It would be good for all of us if we could set aside partisan politics and take a realistic look at what is causing so much anger.


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26 Dec 2019, 11:00 am

I think the US is still light-years away from this state of affairs:


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26 Dec 2019, 4:17 pm

Drugs and alcohol have a lot to do with turning feelings into action.

No socio/political motivations seem apparent in creating the situation where now it is dangerous to walk openly Jewish in certain New York City neighborhoods. It seems to be just hate, combined with sadism, combined with little fear of consequences.

Yes America was and is by far the safest place for Jews, nothing resembling Europe. The difference is now for the first time in my lifetime America becoming like these other places while still probably unlikely does not seem implausible. Unfortunately destroying is easier the building.


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26 Dec 2019, 4:56 pm

Places like Crown Heights in Brooklyn, where there's a conflict between blacks and Hasidic Jews over how Hasidic Jews buy up places that blacks used to own, then exclude non-Hasidim from renting in what they have bought, has caused conflict between blacks and Jews for years.

There was a big riot almost 30 years ago, in 1991, in Crown Heights.

Anti-Semitism certainly plays a role in bias and violence against Jews in NYC. But there's an economic element to it, too.



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28 Dec 2019, 7:31 pm

NYPD Investigating 9th Anti-Semitic Attack Reported This Week

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New information was released Saturday morning about another anti-Semitic incident in Brooklyn.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said that acts of hate shouldn’t be belittled or explained away when he toured the Chabad World Headquarters in Brooklyn on Friday.

“We see exactly what’s happening, and we will not accept it,” he said.

He toured the location on the same day a man reportedly walked in and threatened to shoot the place up. No one has been arrested.

“It’s something that’s very alarming. We treat them very seriously, and we make sure that our investigators do their best to do what we can to bring these individuals to justice that commit these crimes,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said.

Also on Friday, the same day as the Chabad incident, police arrested a 30-year-old woman for slapping three young Jewish women in Crown Heights while she yelled anti-Semitic slurs.

On Thursday, police arrested a 42-year-old homeless woman in Gravesend. She was accused of hitting a mother who was walking her 3-year-old child, also while yelling anti-Semitic slurs. Witnesses were able to follow the suspect until police made the arrest.

“Once I seen the kid go to the ground, I ran over and had to make sure that I stopped it,” witness Sean Lennon said.

Police released details Saturday about an incident that happened early Wednesday morning. They say a 40-year-old man dressed in traditional Jewish clothing was walking home in Borough Park when an unknown individual approached him and blocked his path. When the victim tried to walk around the man, the man allegedly punched the victim in the face then ran off.


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29 Dec 2019, 11:15 am

Apparently there was another attack this weekend. Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg in the town of Monsey on Saturday night celebrating Hanukkah with his family was attacked by a machete-wielding man.

No one was reported killed after the Rockland County attack, but several were injured - including the rabbi's son - in what was the latest of nearly a dozen incidents of violence against Jews in the area in recent weeks, including eight in Brooklyn and a deadly shooting in Jersey City.

Source: Cuomo calls machete attack during Hanukkah celebration an 'act of terrorism' as other politicians react


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Apparently there was another attack this weekend. Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg in the town of Monsey on Saturday night celebrating Hanukkah with his family was attacked by a machete-wielding man.

No one was reported killed after the Rockland County attack, but several were injured - including the rabbi's son - in what was the latest of nearly a dozen incidents of violence against Jews in the area in recent weeks, including eight in Brooklyn and a deadly shooting in Jersey City.

Source: Cuomo calls machete attack during Hanukkah celebration an 'act of terrorism' as other politicians react

May be relevant (Monsey is in the East Ramapo Central School District),


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29 Dec 2019, 3:15 pm

Thread about Monsey, NY mass stabbing
I considered posting about the attack here but since the attack occurred outside of New York City proper and it is an ongoing event I decided to start a separate thread. Since as it turned out the suspect is from outside of NYC it seems the correct call.

Either way for those of us who are Jewish and live in the greater NYC area these are anxious times. While the attacks here so far have been against the ultra orthodox who are conspicuous it seems just a matter of time before conservative and reform congregations are hit.


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Police said Grafton Thomas alleged entered the home of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg in Monsey, a suburb north of New York City, during a Hanukkah celebration - the latest in a string of anti-Semitic incidents in recent weeks that including beatings of Jewish people in the streets of New York City and a massacre at a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, N.J.

Thomas fled the scene of the stabbing but was later captured in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. He had blood all over this clothing and smelled of bleach, according to prosecutors.

Police said the stabbings happened at around 10 p.m. A witness saw the suspect fleeing in car and alerted police to license plate number, Weidel, the police chief in Ramapo, which covers Monsey, said. That allowed police to find his vehicle as he entered New York City, where police apprehended.

Suspect in Hanukkah stabbing at NY rabbi's home pleads not guilty on attempted murder charges

In all three cases that I mentioned, the victims were Jewish and the perpetrators were black.


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It looks like another incident has occurred.

Two female attackers yelled “F— you Jew” and “I will kill you Jews” at a Brooklyn man before shoving him to the ground when he tried to film their anti-Semitic screed, law enforcement sources and witnesses said Wednesday.

The two African American women approached the 22-year-old Hasidic victim in Broadway Triangle where they began taunting him with anti-Semitic slurs, the law enforcement source said.

The first woman began yelling at the victim before the second woman grabbed his cell phone, broke it in half and threw it to the ground, the source said.

One witness too afraid to be named told The Post the women shoved the victim to the ground when he tried filming them and threw the phone in his face after breaking it, they said.

Source: Jewish man attacked in NYC by 2 women after trying to record anti-Semitic tirade, report says


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