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The Epidemic Of Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes In Brooklyn Is No Hoax thefederalist.com/2019/02/21/the…
As much of the country was transfixed by a hoaxed hate crime in Chicago over the past month, a very real wave of hate crimes in Brooklyn has been taking place.
In New York City overall there have been 36 hate crimes against Jews so far this year, compared to only 21 last year. In the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn alone, ultra-orthodox Jews have been violently attacked at least 15 times since October of last year.
In most of these cases there is no apparent motive beyond anti-Semitism. No robbery occurs, and often the attackers — generally black men — and their victims are complete strangers.
State and local government, as well as the New York City Police Department, have stepped up measures to protect the community, but the incidents have continued apace.
The question of why this onslaught of anti Jewish violence is happening so quietly is not as important as stopping the violence, but it’s still important.
Any fair-minded observer would agree that if 15 black people had been victims of racially motivated beatings in relatively white Bensonhurst since October, it would be a big national story.
In fact, just one such alleged incident in Chicago got more coverage on its own than the attacks in Brooklyn have.
Shining a spotlight on white racists, such as the abhorrent participants in Charlottesville, is easy. It comports with a comfortable narrative about how vestiges of white supremacy still exist and must be confronted.
Talking about black men committing violent hate crimes against Jews is far more complicated and difficult, yet it has to happen.
