How much more are Jews in New York City expected to take? Earlier this week, a protest in front of the Nova Music Festival Exhibition on Wall Street, which commemorates those slaughtered at a music festival in Israel during the October 7 attacks, waved Hezbollah and Hamas flags and a “Long live October 7th” banner , lit flares and chanted “long live the intifada.” On Tuesday, a mob took over a New York City subway car and chanted, in a call and repeat fashion, “Raise your hands if you’re a Zionist. This is your chance to get out.
” Two nights ago, the homes of Brooklyn Museum’s director Anne Pasternak and several of the museum’s Jewish board members, were defaced with fake blood and a sign that accused Pasternak of being a “White-Supremacist Zionist.” I’ve been writing in these pages about the growing antisemitism in New York for years . But this is the worst it has ever been.
It’s no longer random attacks, that could be blamed on the mentally unwell. There is now a coordinated threat to Jewish presence in this city. “Hate doesn’t have a home in our city,” former mayor Bill de Blasio said in 2019 after eight attacks on Jews within one week happened in New York.
De Blasio had famously blamed Trump-supporters for these increased attacks saying “I want to be very, very clear, the violent threat, the threat that is ideological, is very much from the right .” He never explained how the shadowy MAGA fans existed in such large numbers in his deep b.