Jewish leaders urge action after another 'senseless' attack

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By GARY FIELDS, LUIS ANDRES HENAO and KIMBER LEE KRUESI

NEW YORK (AP) — When a suspect walked into the home of a rabbi celebrating Hanukkah and stabbed five celebrants it was the latest in a week of anti-Semitic attacks in the nation’s most demographically diverse area — and an incident that reverberated across the country.

“Again, here we are: mourning another act of senseless anti-Semitic violence committed against our community and praying for those who were the victims of this hate,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement Sunday following the attack a day earlier in Monsey, New York.

“This is at least the 10th anti-Semitic incident to hit the New York/New Jersey area in just the last week. When will enough be enough? These heinous attacks make something abundantly clear: The Jewish community needs greater protection,” Greenblatt said.

Since the Dec. 10 massacre at a kosher grocery store in New Jersey there have been 19 anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S., including 16 in New York and New Jersey, according to the ADL’s Tracker of Anti-Semitic Incidents. The tracker is a compilation of recent cases of anti-Jewish vandalism, harassment and assault reported to or detected by the group.



Neighbors gather to show their support of the community near a rabbi's residence in Monsey, N.Y., Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, following a stabbing Saturday night during a Hanukkah celebration. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)


Read more: https://apnews.com/e296ed1760601af1bdd74ccf5acea177

[H2O Man]

1. This is unaccepyable.

It is very disturbing. Some how, some way, the madness needs to stop.

(Recommended.)

[rollin74]

2. k&r the violence and hatred needs to stop!

[appalachiablue]

3. K/R Madness, tragedy

[RainCaster]

4. This is what comes with DFT in the White House

Every racist nationalist a-hole thinks DFT has declared open season on anyone who doesn't look like "us".

He said he would pay the attorney fees, right?

[EllieBC]

5. Except this latest attack wasn't from a white supremacist

So...can we ever admit that there are scum who hate Jews in all walks of life or are we just going to keep pretending this was always just white right wingers?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/what-monsey-attack-says-about-jewish-community/604228/?utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=2019-12-29T21%3A48%3A31&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&fbclid=IwAR2AlUkfrHHr3yUx3nggC1rBWQ7ACe41GdPGb2K0f82GNv4FS6OWRfUWqYE

[RainCaster]

6. It's a good thing he never listened to this

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/12/donald-trump-anti-semitic-remarks/amp

[ansible]

7. Forget it, there's a taboo here in talking about violence not committed by white men

[LanternWaste]

11. Nice little bumper sticker you've alleged there.

[Turin_C3PO]

13. Poor, poor, white people.

I weep for them.

[IronLionZion]

8. Some anti-semites are non-white. Some are liberal. Acknowledged and understood.

Now, what do you propose we do about it? Plenty of non-whites and liberals would like hate in all forms to stop. No one here is defending the attackers.

Your article cited several examples from Trump and Giuliani promoting anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and stereotypes. So we're not going to see anything constructive from them.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Lawless elements

crawl out of the woodwork once rule of law is teetering. They see room to grow their separate agendas, spread fear and hatred, which further their agenda by paralyzing freedom-loving people.

Politically, groups against the status quo often have overlapping origins or goals.

I'm reminded of a characterization in the bio of author Robert Ludlum: "His depictions of terrorism in books such as The Holcroft Covenant and The Matarese Circle reflected the theory that terrorists, rather than being merely isolated bands of ideologically motivated extremists, are actually pawns of governments or private organizations who are using them to facilitate the establishment of authoritarian rule."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ludlum

[FiveGoodMen]

10. Is the news service disputing that it's senseless?

[christx30]

12. Headline was quoting the ADL president.

If he had said it was horrendous, the headline would have said “horrendous”.