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27 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This is unbelievable ... the NYT says that until recently anti-Semitic incidents in the US were tied to Trump. This is simply wrong. Just two years ago in NYC, Orthodox Jews were regularly being attacked in Brooklyn ... the perpetrators were usually Black men
The Monsey Hanukkah stabbing & the Jersey City massacre at a Kosher deli - also perpetrated by Black men. Yet the Times once again perpetuates the false narrative that anti-Semitic violence in America is a right-wing phenomenon
This from the same newspaper in 2018 that today is saying anti-Semitic violence is a right-wing phenomenon
This is from the NYY in 2020 ... completely contradicting what it says in the paper today

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