Borough Park agitator arrested
BY ROSE ADAMS
Police arrested radio personality
and anti-masker
Heshy Tischler outside his
Borough Park home on Sunday
for allegedly instigating
an attack on an Orthodox
journalist.
Citing his role in egging
on a group of ultra-Orthodox
Jews in an attack of a Hasidic
journalist on Oct. 7, cops
charged Tischler with inciting
a riot and unlawful imprisonment,
according to police.
The 56-year-old vocal coronavirus
denier organized
two demonstrations in Borough
Park on Oct. 6 and Oct.
7 against Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s
new COVID-19 regulations.
The new rules, which
went into effect last week,
closed schools and limited religious
gatherings to 10 people
in New York City coronavirus
hotspots.
The protests drew massive
crowds to 13th Avenue,
where mostly unmasked ultra
Orthodox men danced in
the street and waved fl ags in
support of President Donald
Trump. On Oct. 6, attendees
attacked a photographer and
a Hasidic dissenter who was
fi lming the proceedings —
critically injuring the Hasidic
dissenter.
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The next night, a large
crowd egged on by Tischler
chased down and attacked
well-known Orthodox journalist
Jacob Kornbluh, a veteran
reporter for Jewish Insider
who has written about
attempts to fl out social distancing
guidelines in Borough
Park.
“I was just brutally assaulted,
hit in the head, and
kicked at by an angry crowd of
hundreds of community members
of the Boro Park protest
— while yelling at me ‘Nazi’
and ‘Hitler’ — after Heshy
Tischler recognized me and
ordered the crowd to chase me
down the street,” Kornbluh
wrote on Twitter.
Tischler and the crowd
also called Kornbluh a “moser”
— a derogatory term for a
Jewish informant who turns
in a fellow Jew to a non-rabbinical
authority.
There were no arrests on
the scene of the attack, police
said.
Following the two nights
of protests, a group of civil
rights activists called on local
offi cials to arrest Tischler
and charge him with inciting
the violence.
“He should be arrested and
held accountable,” Rev. Kevin
McCall of the Crisis Action
Center said on Oct. 8.
Tischler, who has heckled
Health Department offi cials
about mask mandates, announced
on Sunday that police
told him that offi cers from
the 66th Precinct, along with
some of the civil rights leaders,
would arrest him on Monday
morning.
An NYPD spokesman said
that Tischler was instead arrested
by police at his home
on Sunday night. The representative
did not elaborate on
why the plans had changed.
Dozens of demonstrators
protested the arrest outside
Kornbluh’s house on Sunday
night until early Monday
morning.
Tischler was held at Brooklyn
Central Booking and was
arraigned on Oct. 12, police
and district attorney representatives
said. Tischler was
released on bail, since he
wasn’t charged with any bailable
offenses.
Talk show personality Heshy Tishler, who is running for City Council, organized
a demonstration against the new COVID-19 restrictions limiting
religious gatherings in COVID-19 hotspots. Photo by Todd Maisel
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