Young Jewish man stabbed in NYC by attacker yelling ‘Free Palestine’
Young Jewish man stabbed in NYC by attacker yelling ‘Free Palestine’
A young Jewish man was stabbed early Saturday morning near the Chabad movement’s headquarters in New York City by a man yelling “Free Palestine,” according to a local rabbi who said he knows the victim, as well as CCTV footage of the incident published online.
Yaacov Behrman tweeted that during Shabbat, the young male attacker asked the man: “Do you want to die?” He then stabbed him.
The victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, Behrman said.
Israel's blatant disregard for life is inflaming antisemitism and making life actively more dangerous for Jews abroad that have nothing to do with Israel's genocide.
For Israel this is a benefit: more colonists to load into illegal settlements filled with dead palestinians
For fucks sake!
Israel is not at all the same as the Jewish Religion no matter what the ethno-Fascists Zionists and the child-mass-murder-loving politicians in the Anglo-Saxon World and Germany say.
Bloody useful idiots.
More Jews live outside of Israel than live Inside. And while Jews do have the right to claim Israeli citizenship if they can prove their heritage, it's become very uncommon as even the children of Holocaust survivors are dying out. Their kids don't feel unsafe in other countries like the previous generations were given reason to.
[They] don't feel unsafe in other countries like the previous generations were given reason to.
While that may be true in some places, it's not true everywhere:
In Wake Of Increasing Anti-Semitic Attacks, More Jews Flee France (2016, and it has only increased since)
2,600 people have moved to Israel since Hamas invaded. New arrivals cite incidents of being spat on, bullied, and general rise in antisemitism
Shit man, there are even Jews who are against the very existence of Israel for religious reasons.
I mean, only a fucking ignorant racist idiot would believe the bollocks about Israel and the Jewish Religion being the same thing and I apply that to both the the morons passing laws that make demonstrating against the Israeli Genocide be treated as anti-semitism and to the morons attacking Jews because of the actions of Israel.
Mind you, in many places Neoliberalism so normalized "benevolent" racism (the kind that says "people from this ethnic group are good" or that "this nation represents this ethnicity") that it made it easy for many to flip from that into "malevolent" racism (i.e. "people of this ethnicity are bad") when the "representatives" of the ethnicity do evil shit.
This is not to justify the racism morons: I'm just pointing out that when you constantly plow and fertilize the moral ideas field with Prejudice ("people should be judged by their ethnicity"), don't be surprised when it's just as fertile to grow "people of this ethnicity are good and deserve special treatment" ideas as "people of this ethnicity are evil and deserve 'special' treatment" ones.
(Sorry for the blow up: I really detest the slimy manipulative racism of Neoliberalist Modern Politics that adjusted the tribalism, prejudice and racism of the old days into a "fashionable" format to keep using it to manipulate the masses, rather than genuinelly be "liberal" - i.e. all people are the same and should be judged by their own beliefs and actions - in the moral sense)
The stabber is a loser and his actions should be denounced by the Muslim community. That guy who got stabbed isn’t responsible for the actions of politicians in a different country.
Every culture has bad actors and good actors. People should remember what it’s like to be held responsible or accountable for the actions of someone else. All cultures have done this to each other at some point.
Blaming random civilians for the big things which someone thinks are wrong in the world is an inherently wrong and dangerous thing to do. The police should also investigate if this stabber might not have other motives, like did someone incite this person to start a conflict in this community?
his actions should be denounced by the Muslim community.
It is not the job of any minority community to denounce members of that community when they do heinous things. If a black man stabs a white man because he hates white people, no one would be calling on the black community specifically to denounce him (except maybe Republicans).
He committed murder. There's no need to make some public denouncement. He's on video attempting to commit the murder. He's been arrested for attempted murder. He's clearly a guy who planned to commit a murder. He can say it was for Palestine, but that doesn't make Palestinians responsible and it certainly wouldn't make, for example, a Muslim from Indonesia responsible.
Sorry I meant the local Muslim community, not anyone at large. Muslims are not a monolith.
But that’s my point though, I don’t think it’s a good idea for a random Muslim to blame a random Jewish person for what politicians are doing. If anything, our shared and collective helplessness against larger and out of control forces should unite us.
The stabber is a loser and his actions should be denounced by the Muslim community. That guy who got stabbed isn’t responsible for the actions of politicians in a different country.
Aren't these 2 sentences mutually contradictory? If your argument is that people aren't responsible for the actions of others of the same ethnicity, then logically the Muslim community has no obligation to say anything as they're not responsible.
I should have clarified, I didn’t mean Muslims at large. The ordinary Muslim shouldn’t be expected to respond to such events. People who call themselves religious community leaders, however, can make such general statements, as they have done so in the past. In common parlance, it’s assumed that that’s what meant by “Muslim community”, ie someone who is a leader of a mosque or community group, but I agree I assumed too much about the common understanding of such a term
Antisemitism isn't equal to antizionism..
Stabbing a random Jew in NYC is antisemitism, even if you claim you did it because of Israel
For those of y'all who say that we don't have an antisemitism problem on the left - this seems to be another example showing that we do, and we need to deal with it. Similarly to how movements in the past have been sabotaged by excluding groups (like white-only unions excluding nonwhite people), this could similarly fracture us along identity lines.
When a Muslim is stabbed, no one seems to rant about Iran, Iraq and other Muslim countries making life for their people less unsafe.
On the other hand, the fact someone stabs a Jew, it’s clearly Israel’s fault.
This approach is incorrect no matter what.
Someone wasn't around right after 9/11
Yeah, I was about to say. This person is either in their 20's, or they live somewhere other than the USA.
I don't mean to disparage the real risk of antisemitism, but this might be making a mountain out of a molehill, and "thetimesofisrael" isn't my favourite source in these times.
My point is rather that stabbings are pretty common in NYC. This guy have probably did have antisemitic motivations, I believe that, but in a city so large and so prone to violence, that's sort of bound to happen at some point. It doesn't justify it, but I think one shouldn't be drawing conclusions of "growing antisemitism" because of one crazy in New York.
I don't mean to disparage the real risk of antisemitism
But you're going to do it anyway? Interesting strategy.
in a city so large and so prone to violence, that's sort of bound to happen at some point.
This is a really stupid take. The violence did happen, and the motive appears to be ethnic hatred. Curious that you want the media to stay silent about it.
I think one shouldn't be drawing conclusions of "growing antisemitism" because of one crazy in New York
So you're just going to pretend that this is the first ever antisemitic incident that has ever occurred in NYC or elsewhere in recent history? The article doesn't even cite rising antisemitism in NYC, but rather globally, which is objectively true. Antisemitic hate crimes (like this one) are on the rise worldwide.
Ngl, you sound like you have a pretty specific agenda with this response...
But you're going to do it anyway?
I am? When? You can read my future? What are the winning lottery numbers for this week's draw?
appears to be
The word "appears" doing a lot of heavy lifting there. When researching sources, the stories have lines such as "allegedly", kind of a lot in them. And still, I'm not questioning the veracity of it, am I?
Have you heard of "media criticism"? Or if you practice media criticism at all, it makes you an antisemite?
So you're just going to pretend that this is the first ever antisemitic incident that has ever occurred in NYC or elsewhere in recent history?
Where on Earth did you pull this shit from?
The point is exactly that in a city the size of New York — unfortunate and unwanted as it is — hate crimes of all types, including antisemitism, are something that has always, (but hopefully will not always) happen.
With how explosive the rhetoric and protesting around this topic is, I fail to the importance of this story in the bigger picture.
I'm not gonna start whatabouting by linking several instances of some other group getting attacked, because this isn't a competition on who is getting hatecrimed the most.
The point I am making is that unfortunate as this is, it's implying something that it doesn't back up.
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according to a local rabbi who said he knows the victim,
I trust this bro.
Because Likud in Israel is shitty, now Rabbis can't be trusted to tell what was said when one of their patrons was stabbed near the headquarters of Chabad? Your opinions are something else.
Yeah. On the Jews and their Lies, am I right?