New York Officials React To Anti-Semitic Stabbing Attack

ADDS BOTH OFFICERS KILLED - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, pauses at the podium during a news conference at Woodhull Medical Center, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014, in New York. An armed man walked up to two New York ... ADDS BOTH OFFICERS KILLED - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, pauses at the podium during a news conference at Woodhull Medical Center, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014, in New York. An armed man walked up to two New York Police Department officers sitting inside a patrol car and opened fire Saturday afternoon, killing both officers before running into a nearby subway station and committing suicide, police said. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) MORE LESS
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) denounced a stabbing attack at the house of a rabbi in Monsey on Saturday, the latest in a string of anti-Semitic incidents in the area.

According to the BBC, de Blasio called the situation a “crisis” and announced that he’d step up the police presence in neighborhoods with large Jewish populations.

He also said that schools in Brooklyn would have special anti-hate lessons added to the curriculum.

Cuomo added that the suspect, 37-year-old Grafton Thomas, should be prosecuted as a domestic terrorist.

Trump, who has been accused of anti-Semitism himself because of repeated attacks on Holocaust survivor George Soros, tweeted out his response on Sunday.

Per the BBC, New York Police Department commissioner Dermot Shea said that hate crimes are up 22% in the city this year. The city police hate crimes unit is investigating eight anti-Semitic incident reports since just December 13.

Earlier this month, two gunman killed six people at a Jewish market in nearby Jersey City, New Jersey. The shooters expressed interest in the Hebrew Israelites movement, some of whom have a searing animosity towards Jewish and white people, according to NBC New York.

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  1. Well, we know one thing – Trump did not actually write that tweet:

    1. It’s not unhinged enough to be his work, and it doesn’t contain gratuitous references to Pelosi;
    2. He was too busy to write: he was receiving his end of year performance review from Putin, who threw him the bone of saying Trump was instrumental in thwarting a terrorist attack on St. Petersburg. Nicely calculated to divert us from the fact that Trump is the single biggest factor in the rise of stochastic terrorism in the US.
  2. As Twitter and other social media platforms are too easy to use, why would Trump want to, maybe, go on the TV and address the American public on the elevation in hate crimes since he became president? Too much trouble? Doesn’t want to upset his white nationalist supporters?

  3. “Melania and I wish the victims a quick and full recovery.”

    That’s a far cry from “I really don’t care. Do u?”

    1. “Scourge” is not a word he would ever think of, much less spell correctly.
      3a. Same for “Melania”.
  4. Disturbing, along with all of the anti-immigrant and anti-Muslin rhetoric, but not surprising. The day after the election in 2016, I signed up for monthly contributions to the Southern Poverty Law Center. (And OT but also Planned Parenthood)

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