Posted on 12/29/2019 7:48:23 AM PST by Kaslin
In Rockland County last night, during a Chanukah celebration at a synagogue a man stormed in with a machete and stabbed at least five victims, who were taken to the hospital. This is the latest in a string of antisemitic attacks in the New York City area, coming in the wake of the tragic killing of four people during an attack on a Jewish grocery store in Jersey City.
These two acts of violence this month have brought renewed attention to the sharp uptick in anti Jewish violence that has quietly held New York City in its grip over the past few years. Sadly, Mayor Bill de Blasio, who spent much of the year more concerned with his farcical run for president than protecting the citizens of his own city, and the state governments of New York and New Jersey have, been flatfooted in addressing the growing concern.
It has frankly been astounding how little attention attacks on Jews in the New York City area have received. If any other minority group were subject to such abuse, it would be a leading national story. Why have these attacks been swept under the carpet? The clearest answer seems to be that the news media and our political leadership are uncomfortable with the fact that many of these attacks, including last night’s, were perpetrated by black people.
Make no mistake, if white supremacists in MAGA hats were shooting minorities or carving them up with machetes, it wouldn’t just be news, it would be the only news. So satisfying would that narrative be to our politicians and scribes that we would scarcely be able to turn away. But alas, it’s Jews being killed and maimed. And the criminals don’t fit the bill of right-wing, Trump-supporting Nazis, so, you know, it’s complicated.
De Blasio, who has ignored this festering problem for years, had this to tweet last night: “Horrific, So many Jewish families in our city have close ties to Monsey. We cannot overstate the fear people are feeling right now. I’ve spoken to longtime friends who, for the first time in their lives, are fearful to show outward signs of their Jewish faith.”
Seriously, Bill? You are just realizing this now? Attacks on ultra-Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn have become an almost weekly occurrence under de Blasio. Synagogues and schuls are vandalized regularly, and children and old people are attacked. This is a crisis and has all too often happened throughout Jewish history. It has typically been ignored at best. At worst, the victims are blamed for not fitting in.
Nobody wants to talk about it, but something is going on between the black and Jewish communities in the New York City area that needs to be addressed. The Jersey City shooters were Black Hebrew Israelites; the machete-wielding man who attacked last night was also identified as black. It is time we stop simply wishing that this problem did not exist and address it full on.
For progressives like de Blasio, this is hard to do. The notion that hatred is harbored by some in the black community towards Jews does not comport with their hierarchies of oppression. So rather than deal with the problem, they ignore it. This has to stop. And it has to stop now.
It doesn’t matter how uncomfortable the conversation is. The growing tensions between the black and Jewish communities in New York, harkening back to the Crown Heights riots, must be dealt with. This will take real effort, and a commitment from leaders in the black community to educate and eradicate anti-Jewish bias.
Nobody wants to talk about this, but that’s just too bad. It has to be talked about before more Jews are killed. There is no bigger story than this in the five boroughs and its adjacent communities. The war on Jews has to be ended. But before it can end, it must first be acknowledged.
Answer is simple—Jews must stop voting for and supporting Democrats. Democrats who do not support Jews or Israel do not deserve their support. Law and order must be preserved in this time stress and hate.
Thanks.
“Jews are disproportionately represented in positions of wealth and power.”
When we were impoverished and sequestered in ghettos, we we hated as well. And in places where Jews are virtually absent, the obsession doesn’t seem to vanish, even after very extended periods of time. Material envy is not an adequate explanation.
I think it's this:
Today, it's simply an inculcated hatred that evolved over millennia of envy and misunderstanding.
But...
Originally, it was jealousy over the Jews being named as God's chosen people.
-PJ
It's not too general. Are all those YouTube "Knockout Game" videos also "too general"?
And why do you repeat those "Blame the Victim" leftists who suggest that Tessa Majors was "likely buying drugs"?. There is NO SUCH EVIDENCE. Believing that drug dealers would kill their customers is just stupid anyway.
You apparently know nothing about NYC. She was not far from home, unless you think no one should go away to college. She was just a couple of blocks away from her dorm.
ML/NJ
Remember when Jessie Jackson referred to NYC as "Hymie Town"?
They won't face it with Chicago's black-on-black crime, why think New Yorkers will face it with black-on-Jew crime?
-PJ
Al Sharpton is also big-time anti-semitic....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/01/al-sharpton-is-not-lifelong-fighter-justice/
Are you saying that if only the 9-11 attacks had been on a synagogue, the government would have done something effective in response rather than just forming the unionized TSA and sending thousands of American men to die in the Middle East and Afghanistan, burdening them with impossible rules of engagement and praising Muslims?
Yes, New York.
It's not so much the Jewish vote, as Jewish funding.
US Jews contribute half of all donations to the Democratic Party (Jerusalem Post, 2016)
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