Anti-Semitic Attacks Fuel Continuing Rise in Hate Crimes in New York

[oldsoftie]

Source: NYT

One video showed a 51-year-old Jewish man being beaten to the ground by three young men, who seemed to select him at random. Another showed an Orthodox Jewish man being chased across the street by a man wielding a tree branch. A third showed an Orthodox Jewish man hanging on to a fence as an assailant jumped and choked him.

The three incidents, all of which took place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in the past year, have raised alarms in the neighborhood and in the city’s large Orthodox Jewish community as a whole. Hate crimes are up citywide, but in Crown Heights, they have taken a particularly violent turn.

There were 55 hate crimes reported in New York City this year as of Feb. 17, an increase of 72 percent over the same period last year, the police said. Anti-Semitic crimes made up almost two-thirds of that, for a total of 36 crimes reported so far this year, compared with 21 last year.

The steep rise comes after a year when hate crimes were already increasing. Anti-Semitic crimes in 2018 were up 22 percent compared with 2017.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/nyregion/anti-semitism-brooklyn-new-york.html

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I will never understand this fear of Jews, who do nothing to anyone. They dont demand laws be changed for them. They'll even volunteer to work for people on Christian holidays. Ridiculous. Worse in Europe by far, but this is still ridiculous.
Ignorant assed people.

[Perseus]

1. The criminal mind works different than the normal mind

If its not Jews they will find other people to hate, and they actually do, they hate anyone who doesn't talk, act, looks like them, there is a need for them to hate and it is normal for them to hate.

We will never understand why people hate, there is never any reason to hate, you may dislike someone but that should never translate to hate. At home we have banned the word "hate", even in simple matters like, "oh, I hate broccoli", we immediately correct them and make them say "I dislike broccoli" then we explain (which we have done many times) that "hate" is too strong of a word, a very ugly word because it depicts sentiment, a very negative sentiment.

[leftynyc]

2. Bigots aren't always criminals

They're imbeciles but that's not against the law. Any theories as to why they're bigots?

[JudyM]

4. Right. The criminality is only the most pronounced tip of the bigotry.

[theboss]

5. Why do these arguments only exist for anti-Semitic attacks?

When people thought the Jussie Smollett attacks were real, no one was saying, "Oh...if it's not blacks or gays, it will be someone else."

[jcmaine72]

3. Trump's America

It's starting to bear a remarkable resemblance to a place a failed artist once ruled.

[B Stieg]

6. Crown Heights has been a problem for a long, long time. nt

[Behind the Aegis]

7. I am waiting for it to spread to other cities.

Crown Heights has been a bed for anti-Semitism for a long time, but there are other large Jewish areas which will likely start to see incidents like this in the near future.