SICKENING! Bigot at a public hearing in Haverstraw (Rockland County), NY says regarding Jews “there is a certain sect of people that tend to walk in the street and nobody is wearing any reflective gear. So if I run one of them over and of course I will back over them again.”
Rockland County Executive @ElectEdDay and @GovKathyHochul speak out against the hateful comments said yesterday at a public meeting in Haverstraw.
BREAKING! Town of Haverstraw, NY Supervisor says that “the Chief of Police will be meeting with the DA tomorrow to review the video and see if the gentleman broke any laws.”
State Senator @Elijah4Senate who represents Rockland County, calls the remarks in Haverstraw “murderous anti-Semitism” and criticizes many in the audience for their response.
ALL NEW! @RocklandDA releases a statement regarding the Haverstraw comments.
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STATEMENT BY OJPAC! It doesn’t happen in a vacuum that a person is shameless enough to go on a 3 minute inflammatory public rant about Jews and for most people in attendance to take his side too. It’s a result of a toxic environment where agitators spent years weaponizing debates
about municipal policy with an outsized focus on Orthodox Jews and the commentary being loaded with one-sided reporting and flat out lies. Often, the conversation is framed that every local problem is the fault of Orthodox Jews and everything about Orthodox Jews is faulty.
This narrative has been pushed by political candidates; elected officials; Facebook group administrators and by some players in media. Just today, transcripts from the investigation into @andrewcuomo revealed that the COVID-19 “cluster zones” from last fall were with a bias.
Dr. Fauci says that herd immunity for measles is 90% - 95% and then he incorrectly blames Hasidim of NY for the 2018-2019 outbreak despite the fact that it started in other states. He seems unaware that only 80% Hasidim in NY are age eligible for full vaccination against measles
which means that during an outbreak it can more easily attack Hasidim due to age; not vaccine hesitancy. Finally, 60% Hasidim are under the age of 18 while only 22% of the US is this young. This matters because measles mostly infects younger people. @GayleKing@AnthonyMasonCBS
Disturbing incident the last hour on a @FlyFrontier flight as staff told a Hasidic couple to get off because their 18 month old had no mask. Applause is heard as the couple started leaving. Travels say on camera that the applause came from staff who also cheered that “we did it.”
An Orthodox Jewish person spoke up in defense of the Hasidic couple. Then the whole family siblings and in-laws started leaving the plane at which point the @FlyFrontier ordered everyone off of the airplane.
EYEWITNESS VIDEO! Multiple people say on the record in this video that as the Hasidic couple started leaving the airplane, @FlyFrontier staff applauded, exchanged high fives and one allegedly said “a job well done to those Jews.” Att @PeteButtigieg@FAANews@SenatorCantwell
Rockland. - South Nyack residents voted yesterday to dissolve their 142-year old village in Orangetown in response to a Hasidic Yeshiva buying the Nyack College property. The village has 1,982 registered voters per @LoHudLegal and 800 voted in a split of 508 vs. 292.
Many villages in Rockland - such as Airmont - were created decades ago to keep Orthodox Jews out. This village is being dissolved due to a Hasidic Yeshiva buying a property and potentially having enough votes among staff and students to swing village elections.
When Orthodox Jews in suburban NY and NJ “overdevelop” in areas largelgy populated by Orthodox Jews, some oppose it. But when Orthodox Jews want to move into new neighborhoods - rather than overdevelop in existing ones - it is opposed by many of the same people.
.@LKendallDye For a more recent op ed in the NYT that is nasty to Jews, see @rosnersdomain’s latest. Your headline slams “NYC Jews” (all 1.2 million+) for a localized issue. Clean up your own bigotry before lecturing others on this topic.
.@LKendallDye We can perhaps sponsor for you to live one month in one of the hotels now occupied by homeless people where you can blog daily about the great experiences there. It will be a real Tikun Olam as the public will understand the plight of the homeless population.
.@LKendallDye If the cost is reasonable, we can also sponser the cost of the NYDN editor that approved your op-ed. Imagine the unique perspective that you will both bring to the public. @NYCMayor Please arrange separate rooms for the two and rooms where one bed is already in use.
@rosnersdomain The second paragraph contradicts your generalized paragraph before that. BTW, there is no data that lack of rule following is an Orthodox Jewish problem or that OJs have worse infection rates. If Richard Spencer made such claims on all Jews, you would pounce.
More garbage, @rosnersdomain. You claim “Ultra-Orthodox Jews tend to be poor by design. They prioritize study over work.” Employment rates among men (in Hasidic-populated Kiryas Joel) is quite close to that of NY overall as seen from the chart which is based on Census surveys.
@rosnersdomain Per Pew, a larger portion of Haredi households in the US earn above $100K a year than the genera population, so (Orthodox) Jews can’t win. If they earn well, antisemites pounce that “Jews have money.” If Orthodox earn less, bigots pounce.