“You know why you never see white supremacists marching on the streets of NYC?” a former NYPD Hate Crimes unit boss once asked me. “Because they know they’d get the sh*t kicked out of them.”
Some things New Yorkers won’t tolerate: blatant racism, homophobia, attacks on law enforcement, and stopping at the top of the subway stairs.
Or so we thought. Unfortunately, the last few years have shown us that antisocial, anti-Semitic, and violent behavior aren’t just tolerated in New York City—they’re excused and increasingly encouraged.
What you just read is the beginning of Yael Bar Tur’s latest article at city-journal.com, titled “Park East Synagogue Attacks Mark a New Low for New York City”. And, sad to say, Ms. Tur has this exactly right.
She continues:
I write these words in the aftermath of 150 rioters trying to storm the barricades outside Park East Synagogue on 67th Street in Manhattan, injuring two cops. The hooligans waved flags representing organizations whose members have American blood on their hands. This time, the excuse for flying Hezbollah flags was an informational event for New Yorkers considering leaving the city and moving to Israel (totally coincidental, I presume). The rioters chanted their greatest hits—like “NYPD, IDF, KKK you’re all the same!” and “We don’t want no two states, we want all of it!”—and called for an “Intifada Revolution.”
Though all these events happened this past Tuesday, I could have written this on any number of mornings: last week, after three Hasidic Jews, whose crime is that they are easily identifiable as Jews, were attacked in Brooklyn; or on Monday, after Swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti were discovered yet again in Queens. And that’s just New York. If we include attacks in other places in the United States and in Sydney and London, well, it’s no wonder Jews feel under assault.
There is much more to Ms Tur’s article, and all of it is eminently worthwhile. I strongly urge you to use the link I’ve provided and read every word – especially the part about zohran mamdani, the “man” New Yorkers elected to be their mayor for the next four years.
Then you can wonder, along with me, how many Jews still remain incapable of voting for anyone but Democrats, even as the Democrat Party turns more and more leftward/anti-Israel/anti-Jewish.
In the immortal words of the great folk singer Pete Seeger, “When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?”
