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MORE JEWISH BLOOD SPILLED IN #CROWNHEIGHTS

A 63-year-old Jewish man was smashed in the face with a paving stone, knocking out his front teeth and breaking his nose tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an…

The attack on Gopin was especially violent—the brick left a gash large enough to require staples in his forehead.

There have been dozens of violent incidents targeting Jews in NY over the past couple of years, but few have produced images of blood-soaked religious objects, an especially visceral reminder of how any outward expression of identity can endanger Jews.

And yet the daily experience of anti-Semitism in the city is often more routine. Later on the morning of Gopin’s attack, an East Flatbush resident named Yossi Blachman tweeted, “My 12 year old was just at that park 2 hours ago."

"As soon as he gets there he sees an Anti Semite talk to his friend pointing at my son saying those F***ing Jews…. he was frightened and immediately left the park.”

Blachman explained that the people who had pointed and cursed at his son were in their teens or early 20s. “It happened to my kid today, but it happens so often,” Blachman added, explaining he’d had almost identical language directed at him near his home one year earlier.

“It’s not like a one in a million thing. It’s something that’s happening to people daily.” Still, it was the first time his son had experienced anti-Semitic harassment of this kind, in a place not far from where a man in his mid-60s had been bludgeoned just a few hours earlier.

Yesterday’s incidents offer a snapshot of the city’s ongoing anti-Semitism outbreak. Jews of all ages are subjected to violent attacks, along with daily cases of more mundane forms of harassment. The incidents aren’t exactly a secret.

It didn’t take long for Mayor @BilldeBlasio to tweet about the attack on Gopin, announcing that the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force was on the case.

Of course, this is about the bare minimum one could reasonably expect in reaction to an incident in which the attacker allegedly called his victim a “dirty Jew” before smashing him in the face with a large stone.

Everyone knows that violence against Jews in the city has climbed sharply over the past couple of years, and yet City Hall and @BilldeBlasio have offered little in the way of a specific or organized response to the problem.

Violent Assaults & Other Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes: Brooklyn, 2015-2019 - google.com/maps/d/viewer?…

On the national level, discussions of anti-Semitism rage without apparent reference to the violence in Brooklyn.

The violence , which defies any easy categorization, has little apparent relationship with national politics or political figures, and involves members of racial minority groups rather than white nationalists or other more expedient villains.

Each successive outrage invariably gives way to a passive, citywide acceptance of Jews being routinely targeted in 21st-century New York for no reason other than their religious and ethnic identity, along with a general shrug at whatever factors are driving the outbreak.

Looking at the blood of Abraham Gopin, it is disturbing to consider what it might take for this dynamic to finally change.