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Related: About this forum(Jewish Group) Crown Heights Jews Feel 'Invisible' As Anti-Semitic Attacks Persist
(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)Just before 1 a.m. on a Wednesday morning, a 22-year-old man was sucker-punched while speaking on the phone in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. A few minutes later, a 51-year-old man nearby was knocked down and beaten in front of his home. Neither had anything stolen from them.
Both were Jewish.
The twin attacks, from the same group of three assailants, make at least five attacks on ultra-Orthodox Jews in Crown Heights in 2019 that have shaken the community and heightened fears of deteriorating relations between Jewish and black residents.
The attacks are the latest in a string of muggings, punchings, shovings and threats against ultra-Orthodox Jews in the neighborhood that have occurred over the [past year.] (https://forward.com/news/national/415385/is-a-string-of-attacks-against-brooklyn-jews-really-about-anti-semitism/) Jewish Crown Heights residents say that the attacks, despite being frequently treated as bias crimes by police, are not covered by the media as much as more overtly white supremacist anti-Semitic incidents, leaving them feeling invisible, as one resident said.
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EllieBC
(3,052 posts)because it doesnt fit what we want to believe. That is, antismeitism only exists on the far right, Jews are privileged and therefore cannot be oppressed, and that these acts are largely one offs.
None of those are true of course.
And as an aside, the Lubavitchers will never leave CH. they are a rudderless ship without the rebbe and he had no heir or heir apparent to take over their chassidus. The ohel is there. They cant and wont move that.
Behind the Aegis
(54,053 posts)After all, it is "just Jews" being attacked. Until another Pittsburgh happens, anti-Semitism is uninteresting to the public.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)And my kids showed up and moved me away -- for this reason.
No, it's not "gentrification". We had our house there since the 1970s. People forget the Crown Height Pogrom already?
(And, by the way, the man who was stabbed to death in the pogrom was not Jewish -- he was a random American of Italian origin who "looked Jewish" to his attackers -- the article gets this fact wrong.)
The perps are almost always black, sometimes Muslim, but more commonly the Black Hebrew Israelite (a hate group) or no particular religion.
It's invisible, yes, because it doesn't fit the media's preferred narrative -- which is a mistake for many reasons.
People wonder why so many Orthodox Jewish people are becoming Republicans? This. Failure to acknowledge a problem in our own house.
11cents
(1,777 posts)The victim's was an Australian Orthodox Jew named Yankel Rosenbaum.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)Later it was Anthony Graziosi, who had a black suit and a beard. But was Italian.
11cents
(1,777 posts)He seems to have been forgotten.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)Ive ever been to.
An entire contingent from 770 went.