Thousands March in NY to Support Jewish Community Following Wave of Anti-Semitic Attacks
Source: Slate
By DANIEL POLITI
Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets of lower Manhattan on Sunday to show their support to New Yorks Jewish community following a wave of anti-Semitic attacks that shocked the region late last year. Ignoring the cold weather, people gathered at Foley Square in Manhattan to then march across the Brooklyn Bridge. NYPD estimated that some 20,000 people participated in the march.
Lawmakers and government officials joined the demonstrators who chanted, No hate, no fear, our Jewish families are welcome here. The spate of recent anti-Semitic violence, which included an attack inside a Hasidic rabbis home in a New York suburb on Dec. 28, put a spotlight on just how much these types of crimes have increased. The NYPD says there was a 24 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in 2019 when compared to 2018. And it isnt just in New York. A report from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, shows that anti-Semitic crimes in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago has reached an 18-year high.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke at Sundays march and said he would propose a new law to label hate crimes as domestic terrorism. These are terrorists and it should be punished as such, Cuomo said. He also vowed that the state would increase funding for security and presence of security forces in vulnerable communities. While were here today in the spirit of solidarity and love, government must do more than just offer thoughts and prayers. Government must act, Cuomo said.
People attend a march in support of the Jewish community in Cadman Plaza on January 5, 2020 in New York City.
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Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)this is what needs to happen to let these domestic terrorists know they are OUTNUMBERED
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Many people march. Some against Trump, some for Trump.
America fought a war against the Nazis and supposedly won.
Yet here they are in Charlottesville marching to "take back America".
KKK Conservative boasting:
We killed six million Jews the last time, he answered. Eleven million is nothing.
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