Jon Voight blames liberal non-thinkers for inciting the spate of anti-Semitic incidents across the country in recent days as Jews have been targeted by supporters of Palestine.
Second Suspect Arrested in Attack on NYC Jewish Man
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25 May 2021
A second individual suspected in the attack on a Jewish man in New York’s Times Square recently was arrested on Monday, law enforcement said.
NBC News reported Tuesday 25-year-old Faisal Elezzi of Staten Island has been charged with assault as a hate crime, menacing as a hate crime, and aggravated harassment as a hate crime, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) announced.
The outlet continued:
Elezzi is one of five men suspected of assaulting Joseph Borgen, 29, while making antisemitic statements during rival pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian protests in Midtown on Thursday, according to the NYPD. Borgen, who was wearing a yarmulke, was knocked to the ground, punched, kicked, pepper-sprayed and hit with crutches during the assault, which was caught on bystander video.
America s anti-Semitism crisis worsens: Teen is put in a chokehold, feces is left outside a synagogue, man is arrested for torching a community center and temple-goers get armed escorts in LA amid spike in hate crimes as pro-Palestinian factions target Jews
NYPD has identified a 77% increase in hate crimes this year compared to the last
Anti-Jewish attacks spiked due to Israel conflict, Anti-Defamation League said
In Los Angeles, armed escorts are accompanying Jews on their way to services
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I m not sure why anyone is surprised. There is an intense and growing hostility to Israel on the hard Left, and there s quite a bit of overlap between anti-Zionists and anti-Semites. In many cases, the former phenomenon is the modern, politically acceptable manifestation of the latter. When Rep. Ilhan Omar spewed some flagrantly anti-Semitic rhetoric a few years back, Democrats left-wing base rallied to her cause and successfully pressured Nancy Pelosi to rewrite a condemnatory resolution to de-emphasize Omar s anti-Semitism by expanding it into a watery denunciation of many forms of bigotry. It was deliberately transformed from a specific rebuke of anti-Semitism to a meaningless all hate matters document. All lives matter is an offensive reply to Black lives matter, they say – and I ve come to better understand why many people believe that. Yet it would appear that the progressive Left s go-to reaction to rank anti-Semitism, incl
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The Brooklyn man accused of beating a Jewish man in a hate attack in Midtown proclaimed from his jail cell that he would do it again, prosecutors said on Saturday.
Waseem Awawdeh, 23, was held on $10,000 bail in the Thursday attack, in which he is accused of beating Joseph Borgen, 29, with crutches and punching, kicking and pepper-spraying him. If I could do it again, I would do it again, he told one of his jailers, according to a prosecutor at Awawdeh’s Saturday arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court. I have no problem doing it again.