Point Breeze meeting ends after 'anti-Semitic' comments

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THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP!

A community meeting in Point Breeze turned ugly Monday evening when attendees began hurling what some witnesses perceived to be racist or anti-Semitic epithets to oppose Jewish developers.

Four witnesses attributed the comments to members of Concerned Citizens of Point Breeze, a vocal anti-gentrification group that has fought several development projects in South Philadelphia.


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Feibush, who is Jewish, did not present any projects at the meeting. He was attending as a neighbor.

One comment he said he heard was, "Why don't you go back to Israel?"

"It was hostile," said Kathy Knese, a South Philadelphia resident who heard some of the remarks.

One attendee, who asked not to be identified, said he heard someone shout, "Go back to Lakewood," a town in New Jersey with a large concentration of Orthodox Jews.

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