Mayor de Blasio’s ‘right’ lie on NYC hate crimes
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Last week in Brooklyn,
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced
that hate crimes,
especially against our Jewish
neighbors, are on the rise in
the city and that the political
right is responsible. His blame
game is a lie, and only meant to
further his presidential pipedreams.
The Mayor and NYPD
Commissioner James O’Neill
announced the latest crime
fi gures, which showed most
crimes continuing to decline.
One notable exception was a
64 percent increase in hate
crimes from January through
May, compared to the same
months last year. In 2018 there
were 112, compared to 184 of
these hate crimes this year, 60
percent of which were anti-Semitic.
After batting down any suggestion
of anti-Semitism on
the left, de Blasio proceeded
to say, “The violent threat, the
threat that is ideological, is
very much from the right.” I
guess the mayor conveniently
forgets the words of anti-Semitism
by his progressive allies
like Brooklynite Linda Sarsour
and Minnesota Congresswoman
Ilhan Omar.
Obviously, both the farright
and far-left have, in
words and actions, contributed
to the unfortunate rise of hate.
The mayor saying the far-right
is the cause of the 64 percent
increase in hate crimes here
while exonerating his far-left
buddies is a crass attempt to
help his quixotic presidential
campaign by blaming President
Trump and the right for
everything that is wrong. Of
course he can’t condemn Sarsour
or Omar, lest he risk losing
their support.
Let’s begin with de Blasio’s
Brooklyn neighbor Linda Sarsour,
who has been a left-wing
political activist and was the
executive director of the Arab-
American Association of New
York, based in Bay Ridge. This
is a woman who penned an
op-ed titled “New Progressive
Era Still Politics As Usual Regarding
Israel.” In the op-ed,
she criticized New York City
Democrats for standing “with
a handful of political elites to
show unwavering support for
Israel” against terrorist attacks
from Hamas.
In October 2015, Sarsour
posted on her twitter account
a photo of a Palestinian boy
preparing to throw a rock at Israeli
soldiers and called it “The
defi nition of courage.” How the
mayor does not think promoting
violence by the next generation
does not lead to more
hate is beyond me. Perhaps it
would ruin his chances of getting
Sarsour to endorse him
for president.
Further, after Queens
Councilman Rory Lancman
— who is now running for District
Attorney in his borough
— responded to Sarsour, stating,
“Attacking Jews at their
homes, schools, supermarkets,
cafes, buses, roads, synagogues
and Seder tables is barbarous,
and enlisting children to commit
those acts is even more
so,” she responded with “The
Zionist trolls are out to play.”
But, according to de Blasio, it
is only the right that promotes
violence and anti-Semitism.
To Sarsour, it is not her own
words that harm race relations
and cause bad blood, it is our
NYPD. At an anti-police protest
in December 2015, Sarsour
was arrested. Video shows one
of her fellow protestors yelling
in the face of a police offi -
cer “Nobody looks at you like
a hero, just a racist.” It also
shows Sarsour chanting about
“the violence of racist police.”
No matter how many examples
of Sarsour’s radical actions
and words are provided,
she and the left are innocent of
any anti-Semitism, according
to de Blasio — it is all President
Trump and the right’s fault.
Since de Blasio is running
to be the chief executive of the
country, I am confi dent he has
been following Congress a bit
more. Therefore, he should be
well aware of Congresswoman’s
Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) attempts
to top Sarsour for the
most extreme rhetoric against
Jewish-Americans and Israel.
In February, Omar tweeted
that support for Israel in the
United States is “all about the
Benjamins” and accused Jewish
leaders of having “dual loyalty”
to America and Israel.
Even Chelsea Clinton, who
has a Jewish husband, had to
speak up. She tweeted, “We
should expect all elected offi -
cials, regardless of party, and
all public fi gures to not traffi c
in anti-Semitism.”
Of course, the mayor would
disagree with the former fi rst
daughter because to him, anti
Semitism is only practiced
by one party’s elected offi cials
and public fi gures.
On June 5, a vandal wrote
“Kill All Jews” on a mailbox
outside of Saint Patrick’s in Bay
Ridge. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is
even assigning the New York
State Police Hate Crimes unit
to assist the NYPD in fi nding
the culprit. While borough
Democrats and Republicans
all condemned this incident,
only de Blasio would pin the
blame on the right.
The mayor only has to look
to his left in Brooklyn and Minnesota
to see some who really
spread anti-Semitism.
THE RIGHT
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Bob Capano
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