'Enough Is Enough': N.Y.C. Sees Three anti-Semitic Attacks in 24 Hours

By artappraiser on Wed, 12/25/2019 - 10:43pm |

When the story catches Ha'aretz's attention, it's not local anymore--

'Enough is enough': N.Y.C. sees three anti-Semitic attacks in 24 hours.

“The Jewish community is particularly on edge as it’s reeling from the deadly attack in Jersey City on December 10th.” https://t.co/Bg30AKtAza
— Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) December 26, 2019

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https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-enough-is-enough-n-y-c-sees-three-anti-semitic-attacks-in-24-hours-1.8318814

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(NY) City and state cops investigate four antisemitic attacks in NYC in 24 hours

Associated Press via amny.com, 18 hrs. ago.

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/27/2019 - 5:12am

Inspired by the Jersey City rampage, man enters Chabad world headquarters in Crown Heights and threatens to shoot it up. https://t.co/xxZldPyccu
— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) December 27, 2019

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/27/2019 - 6:33pm

Hi @ADL @JGreenblattADL: Is this a previously unreported incident? I'd be grateful for a round-up of the reported six incidents over Hanukkah. If it's hard for me to keep up I can't imagine the average New Yorker trying to follow this: https://t.co/zafdUnDHFn
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 27, 2019

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/27/2019 - 7:26pm

NYPD Investigating 9th Anti-Semitic Attack Reported This Week

@ newyork.cbslocal.com December 28, 2019 at 5:00 pm

by artappraiser on Sat, 12/28/2019 - 6:23pm

First images of some of the suspects who were arrested in New York in relation to the violent hate crimes against Jewish people. They’ve been quickly released and did not have to pay bail under a new criminal justice reform law. https://t.co/Oz0vtTKBON pic.twitter.com/8K9agXSC8Z
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 29, 2019

Breaking: Several injured in stabbing attack at a synagogue in upstate New York. The suspect is described as a black male who arrived with a machete and then fled in a silver car after the attack. https://t.co/6vDJSVB1my
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 29, 2019

Security footage shows the suspect driving off after the stabbing attack at the Monsey, New York synagogue. He was later arrested in Harlem. pic.twitter.com/XLkFkTqxLC
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 29, 2019

by artappraiser on Sun, 12/29/2019 - 4:22am

The Guardian currently has the Monsey, NY attack as the headline story on its UK version homepage!

Hanukah stabbings: five hurt in Monsey, New York state

Attack takes place during festivities at rabbi’s home, say authorities, with suspect and getaway car later found

Dec. 29

An attacker has stabbed five people during Hanukah festivities at a rabbi’s home in New York state.

The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council said an attacker wearing a scarf fled after stabbing the victims at a house in Monsey, Rockland county, about 30 miles north of New York City, on Saturday night.

All five victims were taken to hospital, the council said, and two were in critical condition with one of them stabbed at least six times. The local police chief, Brad Weidel, said New York City police officers later located a suspect and possible getaway vehicle connected with the stabbing.

Aron Kohn, 65, told the New York Times that he was inside the house when the stabbings occurred. “I was praying for my life,” said Kohn, 65. “He started attacking people right away as soon as he came in the door. We didn’t have time to react at all.” [....]

by artappraiser on Sun, 12/29/2019 - 4:47am

"The Guardian Angels" organization will begin patrolling #Brooklyn after increase in #Antisemitic attacks.https://t.co/ehN2ShQe8A
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) December 30, 2019

by artappraiser on Sun, 12/29/2019 - 10:46pm

Maggie Haberman retweeted:

Twitter isn’t a place I often seek reassurance, but I found real solace this weekend in the outpouring of support for Jewish people amid the recent rash of attacks.

May we all figure out how to be better to one another. pic.twitter.com/xaVQjHYVU4
— Faye Penn (@fayepenn) December 30, 2019

by artappraiser on Sun, 12/29/2019 - 11:22pm

In Opinion,

Nita Lowey and David Harris write, "We cannot allow this situation to become the “new normal,” as if attacks on Americans because of their religious or ethnic identities are now an expected part of our everyday lives."https://t.co/JV3aEXcZVv
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 31, 2019

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/30/2019 - 11:52pm

Video from Yaacov Behrman of @ChabadLubavitch shows Crown Heights teens hitting Jew with folding chair in yet one more Hanukkah assault pic.twitter.com/lhZe7U3SXU
— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) December 31, 2019

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/31/2019 - 12:01am

Jersey City-resident Darryl Jacobs has been arrested and charged for threatening to “bomb all the Jews” in Jersey City. https://t.co/mnyOupKGq8 pic.twitter.com/ew3lSj6LJu
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 30, 2019

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/31/2019 - 12:07am

The man who threatened to shoot up the Chabad World Headquarters in Brooklyn this past week has been arrested. https://t.co/vCQnXCPEZ9 pic.twitter.com/DQL7gtyLGc
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 30, 2019

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/31/2019 - 12:09am

Grafton Thomas is facing federal hate crime charges for his alleged role in the machete attack on the Jewish gathering. A search of his home turned up a journal w/anti-Semitic writings & references to “Hebrew Israelites.” He also searched on his phone for local synagogues. pic.twitter.com/sDPo0zHcwb
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 30, 2019

“Authorities are investigating whether Grafton Thomas, the man charged in a machete attack on Hanukkah celebrants in Monsey, is tied to a recent stabbing near a village synagogue, a law-enforcement official told The Post on Sunday.” https://t.co/7pjW8xCiM3
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 30, 2019

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/31/2019 - 12:13am

Suspect in Monsey Stabbings Searched Online for ‘Hitler,’ Charges Say

Officials said the suspect, who is charged with hate crimes, also expressed anti-Semitic views in his journal.

By Michael Gold & Benjamin Weiser, Dec. 30

In his journal, prosecutors said, he referred to Hitler and “Nazi culture.” On his phone, he searched online at least four times for “why did Hitler hate the Jews” and looked for “prominent companies founded by Jews in America.”

Those details emerged as federal prosecutors filed hate crime charges on Monday against the man accused of stabbing five Jewish people at a Hanukkah celebration over the weekend in the New York suburbs.

In recent weeks, the criminal complaint said, the man, Grafton E. Thomas, had also searched for “German Jewish Temples near me,” and “Zionist Temples” in Elizabeth, N.J., and in Staten Island [....]

Read the Complaint: United States v. Grafton E. Thomas (PDF, 6 pages) [....].

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/31/2019 - 12:29am

My latest.

The main thrust: when we turn to racist declarations like "black people have an antisemitism problem" we actually obscure the discussion around antisemitism, thus making it much harder to fight.

Hope this helps a very painful discussion.https://t.co/RKWBtN5GN0
— Elad Nehorai (@PopChassid) December 30, 2019

We will defeat anti-Semitism

We will defeat hatred.

We will defeat intolerance.

TOGETHER. pic.twitter.com/2eL8zPbFqI
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) December 30, 2019

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/31/2019 - 12:19am

It's gone viral:

This is the city we live in, @NYPDHateCrimes data shows jews were attacked a staggering 166 times in first 3 quarters of 2019 pic.twitter.com/C6KDOHZh5D
— WILLIAMSBURG NEWS (@WMSBG) January 1, 2020

even if you account for an ididosyncracy like reporting where there wasn't reporting before, there's no getting around that it's gone viral.

by artappraiser on Wed, 01/01/2020 - 6:12pm

the viralness of it is perhaps the most disturbing thing to me, the young blacks with minor harassment seemingly doing it just for fun. Because humanity always has passionately vicious ideological haters around whether Osama bin Laden or Black Israelite Hebrews. It's that it seemingly seems a popular thing to do among a subset of kids, to make them feel they are above another tribe or something. Bullying the uncool kids in high school is one thing, ramping it up and focusing it on a whole tribe of people is another.

by artappraiser on Wed, 01/01/2020 - 6:21pm

Early data suggests 60% of the attacks are by whites and 33% by blacks.

New York Police Department statistics for the first three quarters of 2019 document 45 arrests for anti-Jewish hate crimes in New York City. One third of those arrested were African-Americans, while 60% were white individuals.This represents a rate similar to that in 2018, when of the 69 arrests made for antisemitic hate crimes in New York, 40 of those arrested, or 57%, were white, and 25 of those arrested, or 36%, were black.

https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Antisemitism/NYPD-33-percent-arrested-for-antisemitic-crimes-in-2019-were-black-60-percent-white-612779

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 01/07/2020 - 6:49pm

PEN America will be at the #NoHateNoFear march this Sunday in New York City to show solidarity in the fight against anti-Semitism. Please join us! More info & details here: https://t.co/lfIvgCZQri. #StandTogether pic.twitter.com/fxazOTpPdS
— PEN America (@PENamerica) January 3, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 01/03/2020 - 4:46pm

Hate crimes were up 20% in New York City in 2019, according to the New York Police Department, with a rise in anti-Semitic incidents making up the bulk of that increase https://t.co/7vJmgiDM4O
— CNN (@CNN) January 7, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 01/07/2020 - 1:42am

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