LEADER JEFFRIES STATEMENT ON ANTISEMITIC PROTESTS IN BOROUGH PARK

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37. The anti-semites who showed up in Borough Park consider ALL OF ISRAEL stolen land,

so no, I do not agree with THEIR protest.

It goes without saying that The Getter Group should not be selling or trying to acquire property appropriated by settlers in the West Bank. It's illegal. That's why Joe Biden imposed sanctions on West Bank settlers and why Israeli banks honored those sanctions.

Did any of the signs, flags, or chants at yesterday's hate-fest mention The Getter Group by name? If it was an anti-Getter Group Real Estate Expo protest, why were the chants about Zionists who live in Brooklyn? Why were Brooklyn Jews called "settlers"? Why was a random Jewish resident told "Zionists disgust me"? Why were Jewish children crossing the street targeted and subjected to vile abuse?

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I stand with Leader Jeffries.

The vile and antisemitic rhetoric directed at Jewish residents in Borough Park is unacceptable and unconscionable. We will not tolerate the egregious behavior on display that was clearly designed to intimidate and harass Jews in the Borough Park neighborhood.

People of goodwill across our City and throughout the nation must continue to do everything possible to protect our Jewish brothers and sisters who are under assault and fight the cancer of antisemitism with the fierce urgency of now.

Sorry but, "Yeah, they were really just protesting a real estate expo" strains credulity and helps to create a permission structure for this type of soft terrorism to continue and escalate.