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oldsoftie

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Fri Jan 3, 2020, 09:16 AM Jan 2020

Lawmakers, Community Step Up Response Amid New Reports Of Anti-Semitic Attacks

Source: CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Jewish people say they are living in fear after a spike in anti-Semitic attacks.

According to the NYPD, there were 229 such crimes in New York City last year alone. That’s more than all other hate crimes combined.
That number was also about 20 percent higher than 2018, when there were 185.


On Thursday, the NYPD charged a 24-year-old woman overnight in an anti-Semitic attack against a young Jewish man in Williamsburg.

Police said the 22-year-old victim was assaulted shortly before 1 p.m. on Wednesday. It was the 13th reported anti-Semitic hate crime across the city since Dec. 23 — the first full day of Chanukah.
“No one should have to put up with walking down the street, being concerned with how I am dressed that I may be a target of an attack,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said.

Read more: https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/01/02/arrest-in-13th-antisemitic-incident/



I hope NYC really cracks down on these scumbags. This shit has got to be stopped. Ridiculous hate crime attacks on the most peaceful people.
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