Thread by @JewhadiTM

Sitting Ducks

New criminal-justice reforms combined with restrictive gun laws are making it impossible for Jews to be safe in New York tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an…

How to stop local pogromists from smashing, beating, stabbing & shooting Jews—like yesterday in Monsey, or last week’s murderous assault in Jersey City, NJ—is not a question most American Jews imagined we’d ever have to seriously entertain. But it is now a matter of life or death

One thing that is clear is that the familiar avenues that our community has relied upon, namely the city’s Democratic political establishment, law enforcement, and the courts, are no longer working to protect us.

Instead, they are encouraging more attacks, and escalating the violence against our community.

Consider the case of Tiffany Harris. Last Friday, she walked up to 3 Orthodox Jewish women on a Brooklyn street and began punching them as she shouted anti-Semitic slurs.

When the cops picked her up, Harris didn’t bother denying the accusations. “Yes, I slapped them,” she said. “I cursed them out. I said, ‘F-U, Jews.’”

Harris was brought before a judge, and not for the first time. According to the New York Post, she has an open harassment and assault case against her from last November, and just last month failed to make an appearance in court for another felony criminal mischief charge.

But the prosecutors in Harris was brought before a judge, and not for the first time.

Per the @nypost, she has an open harassment and assault case against her from last November, and last month failed to make an appearance in court for another felony criminal mischief charge.

But the prosecutors in her case this time around didn’t even bother asking for bail: On Jan. 1 a new law will take effect that will prohibit judges from setting bail for defendants accused of certain, mostly nonviolent, crimes.

The law’s defenders are hailing de Blasio’s new sentencing guidelines as a shining example of criminal-justice reform.

In reality, it’s a noxious example of a misguided policy that allows progressive politicians to signal their virtue while leaving minorities—Jews first and foremost—exposed to assaults without consequence, which encourage more assaults against defenseless targets.

In the past two weeks, New York, which boasts the largest Jewish population of any city in the world, has witnessed 10 violent attacks against Jews, yet the perpetrators, like Harris, were all let go, grinning and unrepentant.

Letting violent, hate-filled bigots walk free to commit more violent hate crimes as a matter of public policy is the definition of insanity. It’s evil.

In practice, it seems, “criminal justice reform” and condemning “police occupation” are euphemisms for sacrificing the safety of real, live Jews on the altar of progressive claptrap.

Anyone wishing to keep Jews safe and fight anti-Semitism must first make sure that anti-Semitic attackers pay full price for violent bigotry.

Yet NY’s ‘progressive’ politicians, and a host of left-leaning Jewish organizations, have spent the past 24 hours releasing blustery general statements condemning the Monsey attack while continuing to blame “white nationalism” for the plague of anti-Semitic violence killing Jews

Nothing could be more toxic and counterproductive than this kind of politically motivated redescription of the wave of hate-fueled violence that is turning New York into Kishinev.

If you can’t clearly and forthrightly call for the perpetrators of violent anti-Semitic hate crimes to be punished to the full extent of the law and for Jews to be protected by the force of law, then you are aiding and abetting violent hate crimes.

And so, if the local Democratic Party and the criminal justice system are no longer interested in protecting Jews, might we at least be permitted to defend ourselves? In New York City, sadly, the answer to this question is no.

Buying an illegal firearm in New York City is no more difficult than procuring MDMA, say, or any other illegal substance.

But those of us who wish to be legally armed—to protect ourselves against violent anti-Semites like Harris, who is currently free to roam the streets and assault Jews, or the Black Hebrews, whose ranting against “fake Jews” resulted in 6 deaths in Jersey City—are out of luck.

New York’s progressive politicians, alongside a host of left-leaning Jewish organizations like the ADL, have spent the last 24 hours releasing statements condemning the attack in Monsey. These statements are utterly meaningless unless followed by concrete action.

Anyone wishing to keep Jews safe must first make sure that anti-Semitic attackers are held responsible for their violent acts of hatred, and then help amend the laws and allow Jews the right of self-protection.

(via @liel)

cc @BilldeBlasio
@NYGovCuomo
@TishJames