WhatsappThe Jewish community in the USA is under attack, with the Orthodox community in the New York area taking a major hit. Synagogues are being shot at, Rabbis injured and innocent Jewish pedestrians physically assaulted on the streets. Today, a black man walked into a Chanukah holiday celebration in the community of Monsey, NY with a machete and starting stabbing multiple people.
Yossi Gestetner, co-founder of the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council in the Hudson Valley, said 15 people were hurt; two who remain in critical condition were still in the hospital as of late Sunday afternoon.
The anti-Semitic attack in Monsey, New York, on the 7th night of Hanukkah last night is horrific. We must all come together to fight, confront, and eradicate the evil scourge of anti-Semitism. Melania and I wish the victims a quick and full recovery.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2019
37-year-old Thomas Grafton has been identified as the man arrested for the alleged stabbing attack at a rabbi’s home next to a synagogue last night in Monsey, New York. He fled the scene and was found by police in Harlem.
Multiple tweets from @AOC that @realDonaldTrump is an antisemitie!
— Adam Milstein (@AdamMilstein) December 29, 2019
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about the kosher deli shooting in Jersey City
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about the daily attacks on Orthodox Jews in NYC this week
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about the mass stabbing in a Monsey shul pic.twitter.com/sgLgzpCZUm
As long as some progressives insist that Antisemitism is only a problem of right-wing / white extremism & excuse others, then they too are part of problem that enables this Jew-hatred, like in Monsey tonight!
🛑 First footage published of #Monsey attack suspect, who was just apprehended in Harlem.
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) December 29, 2019
He doesn’t quite seem like a ‘white extremist’ to me … pic.twitter.com/C0935aUQMd
There have been NINE anti-Semitic attacks in NYC in the past week.
— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) December 29, 2019
And now this horror tonight just outside the city, in Monsey.
This is a full blown crisis. None of what we are doing is good enough.https://t.co/VXFnUSW694
I am scared of the Democratic Party!
I have never lived in a time where it has been more terrifying to be a Jewish person in America.
How many more Jews have to be attacked before the Democratic party & their media stop supporting antisemites like Tlaib, Omar & CAIR? #Monsey— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) December 29, 2019
