Marchers Promote Tolerance and Protest Torched Cars and Anti-Semitic Vandalism in Brooklyn
- Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:45pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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(The Blaze/AP) — Peaceful marchers sent a clear message Sunday to vandals who torched cars and scrawled Nazi swastikas in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn: Don’t repeat the kind of attacks that once led to the Holocaust.
About 100 Midwood residents joined elected officials for the walk past four public benches from which 16 swastikas had been removed after the pre-dawn attack Friday.
“It was horrible,” said Ascher Scheiner, 17, a student at a local yeshiva – a Jewish religious high school. “My friend woke me up and said he heard a loud explosion.”
On Ocean Parkway, three parked cars – a BMW, a Lexus and a Jaguar – had been set ablaze. In addition, the letters “KKK” were spray-painted on a van and anti-Semitic messages were scrawled on a sidewalk. NBC New York notes that protesters were aware that the attack occurred one day after the 73rd anniversary of Kristallnacht, a series of attacks on Jews in Nazi Germany on Nov. 9-10, 1938:
State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Democrat who represents the area, said authorities told him they believe rags were soaked in gasoline, placed under the cars and lit.
“I’ve never seen this level of violence here, in my 29 years representing this area,” Hikind told The Associated Press. “This goes beyond the pale – blowing up cars in the middle of the Jewish community.”
Hikind, who lives in the neighborhood, then rushed off Sunday to see his 90-year-old mother, an Auschwitz survivor. He said he walks past the benches with her on their way to Sabbath services.
“All I could think about was my mother sitting on a bench with a swastika,” he said.
Police made no arrests as of Sunday afternoon. The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating. Residents of the neighborhood told NBC that they were stunned and disgusted following the attack:
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said dozens of empty beer bottles were found at the scene. ABC News 7 notes that the bottles will be tested for fingerprints and DNA samples:
Police in the 66th Precinct bolstered patrols in the neighborhood – especially the scene of the attack.
The marchers carried an Israeli flag and were led by Hikind, state Sen. Eric Adams, Rabbi Chaim Gruber, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel and other community leaders.
“There was a time when vandals used magic markers to express hate; now they’re using gasoline,” Adams said.
“I am the child of a Holocaust survivor, and this makes me uncomfortable,” said Judy Pfeffer, 62, a retired city education department employee who lives blocks away. “Even then, it was just vandalism. But it led to the Holocaust.”
Sunday’s march included about 25 people from the Occupy Wall Street movement in Manhattan, which put out a statement condemning the vandalism.
The mix of people who showed up for the march “shows that we stand together against hatred. And it makes residents here feel better,” Hikind said.
Midwood – a quiet, middle-class neighborhood about 45 minutes by subway from Manhattan – was predominantly Jewish until new immigrants began arriving in the 1980s from the Caribbean, South America, Eastern Europe and Asia. Woody Allen, the famed filmmaker, grew up in Midwood, as did U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer condemned the vandalism during an unrelated event on Sunday.
“It’s disgraceful and they should throw the book at the people who did it,” Schumer said. “Sometimes (vandals) think they’re pranks, sometimes they’re more malicious than that. Either way they cause great harm.”
NY1 notes that the Anti-Defamation League is offering a $4,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, and City Councilman David Greenfield and State Senator Martin Golden are each offering $1,000.
A 40-year-old man was arrested Friday in connection to a separate incident in nearby Queens, where anti-Semitic graffiti was found spray-painted on two libraries and the door of a synagogue.
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Comments (63)
lvjohn
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:41pmThank you President Obama without your help none of this would have happened.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:23pmThey’re like a loose herd of cattle with no ramrod.
Report Post »One shot will stampede them in the direction of least resistance.
Shots fired from Washington.
Servant Of YHVH
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:37pmI agree, what I don’t get though is this:
“State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Democrat who represents the area,”
“Hikind, who lives in the neighborhood, then rushed off Sunday to see his 90-year-old mother, an Auschwitz survivor.”
And this guy belongs to the party that is primarily causing this. He must hate his own Jewish heritage and probably his own mother, the Holocaust Survivor. I would like to ask him how he can justify being a democrat.
Report Post »mils
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:37pmwe need to find a way to steer them towards the real criminals…elected officials in Washington.
How?..
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 2:21amI can assure you that Dov Hikind is anything but a self-hater. One has to understand that in NYC and many other places (this is my old neighborhood), one has to register Democrat or one is disenfranchised. One can work fro mthe insude, also. (Remember how Blacks were refused office by all-white Democratic primaries in the South?)
From what I can tell, the local press has been trying to get him also. I have no doubt but that he will support the Republican candidate in 2012, as long as he is a Conservative.
Report Post »jimay
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:08pmO-ba-ma-ville shows their hand a little early.
Report Post »chicago76
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:57pmMarxist=socialist.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:03pmSo I wonder WHO THEY THINK are the real haters that did this or are these the same people who support the Tea Party? Not on your life! You don’t have to look further than your own on this one, now you need a counter protest to cover the sins of those who march with you during the light of day then burn cars and leave racist markings behind. Looks like they opened pandoras box to me.
Report Post »bobbie22
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:51pmI agree they will vote democrats like Chuck U Shumer. But ray of hope the Orthodox Jews (very religious) will not vote for those phonies They see threw the self hating ones like shumer, Jerrold Nadler, and former Wiener
Report Post »chicago76
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:59pmAnyone who hates himself will hate others just as much. Anyone who is suicidal is also homicidal.
Report Post »chicago76
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:51pmMarx and Engels and all the atheist utopia seekers of the nineteenth century hated the Jews because their faith in God made them capitalists, people who seek freedom want a free market. They also hated Americas Christians, but they believed that once the Jews were eliminated the American Christians would turn soporific like the European Christians. However, if American Christians did not turn, they would be the next target of the Marxists for elimination. That is why Marxists hate, virulently, people like the Baptists and other free thinking Christian denominations. That is why they hate America so much and it is why they are trying to destroy the moral foundations of Christianity. Unless the Jews and unwilling Christians, those who want freedom also, are eliminated the great utopian atheist world government cannot happen. Islamists do not want freedom so they get along very well with Marxists.
Report Post »Most if not all of the socialist movements in the last 160 years have used Marx and Engels as the foundation of thought behind their movement. From Trotsky to Stalin to Hitler to Mao to Obama the common thread of Marxists has always been, 1hate of the Jews and 2 hate of Christians but especially American Christians. The Islamists fit right into that nitch don’t you think.
thomas242007
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:46pmFunny how the ows and the democrat/ progressive party keep calling the tea party racist nazis, but time and time again theres more and more anti semitism coming from the ows people, yeah i can really see the resemblance between the tea party and OWS (sarcasm)
Report Post »PKama
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 3:41amSunday’s march included about 25 people from the Occupy Wall Street movement in Manhattan, which put out a statement condemning the vandalism.
Very very funny OWS !!! Trying to cover for your own people who are responsible for this mayhem. It’s kinda like Judas kissing Jesus on the cheek before they let him away to be crucified. These OWS people are just so shameless. I guess they are just like their leader who is occupying the White House.
Report Post »olddog
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:38pmSome of you are so Funny. I love the one that wrote that these people would vote democrat again, just who do you think the protesters, rioters, burners are??? They are democrats,progressives,leftists,communists, they are the violence and unrest of America and always have been..
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:17pmobama and the democrats own OWS. All the rapes, murders, fire bombing is in obama’s corner. He will pay for it! No sympathy for the devil!
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:30pmAnd yet the people in the area will vote democrat over and over.
Report Post »Tony
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:12pmOWS inspired no doubt….OWS sponsors and backers include radical Islamists and groups who espouse hatred of Jews as evidenced by wide spread incidents of hate speech against Israel and Jews in general.
Report Post »DADA
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:11pmLook no further that individuals who are staying at the OWS encampment. They have been spewing anti Semitic language that the MSM has been ignoring.
Report Post »flatdaddio
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:02pmthis type of behavior becomes more prevalent when the leadership of this country sides with the same people who promote this behavior…..lets start with the president and how he call for Israel to return to the 67 boarders and how he supports Hamas….How about people who call for the destruction of Israel are allowed to speak at our universities……..total disgrace…
Report Post »garyM
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:57pmI‘ve been knowing the democrat’s true colors for a long time but after watching what I have seen for the last two years. I wouldn’t vote for anyone who even indicated they thought the democrats were good people much less had a D beside their name! I got a feeling their are some more people out there who are right there with me!
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:17pmI’m with you Gary. After thinking about it for a few minutes, I got nothin’. I can not think of a single democrat that I could ever vote for.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:53pmYou remember how the crazt guy Charles Mansion communicated with the women killers without saying a word, just vibs, well that is how these OWS people are getting their marching orders. All they have to do is watch the news! I’m not sure they have to do that, they already have a general idea!
Report Post »Evil, pure evil!
marine249
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:41pmon the 2nd try got both up
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:38pm.
Report Post »This is why you need a gun & alot of bullets………………
SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:36pm.
Report Post »They don’t know why they hate the Jews…………
Impenitent
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:24pmSchumer wants to throw a book at the “vandals?”
that will fix everything.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:49pmIf Shummer throws a vandal book, be better duck because it would hit him right between the eyes!
Report Post »Findalis
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:21pmHas anyone noticed that Mayor Bloomberg wasn’t anywhere there. That President Obama is silent on this. That the Congressman from the district is silent. Now if this had been in a Muslim or Black neighborhood, it would have been the headline on every channel, round the clock coverage and everyone from the President, Mayor to Al Sharpton screaming for blood.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 3:26amSad but true. This hatred for the Jewish community is connected to Israel. Israel, jewish people, and Christians have to be eliminated. The Jewish folks here that back the dems are betraying their faith and hoping they will be spared if they choose the progressives over their own people. The destruction of Israel is a necessary evil for the progressives to repay the Muslims in the Mideast. Kind of a trade to succeed in the developement of global law and currencey. I hope this wakes up the Jewish communities that have given the dems support in the past. But then again the power of the almighty dollar has caused many to give into temptation. The jewish people are no exception , greed and corruption has been visible in every race and religion. They are being used by the progressives who know that the OWS hate successful people with money. This is the scenario they have created.This steers them away from the White House and to those who are rich. Obama calls for it on a regular basis. The progressives believe and feel they deserve to be a higher power than GOD. Like Beck has told us all of these groups though enemies have joined together for the same purpose. After they reach their goal that is when the real power struggle will begin. None will settle for anything less than being the top power. They have to first eliminate all that stand in their way. They have to work together to achieve this at any cost.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:07pmOff topic. Did anyone see 60 minutes tonight. I want a Congressman OR woman (Pelosi) to be my stock picker . What i saw made me wanna puke
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:13pmWhat they do may be “legal” but it sure as hell isn’t right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:58pmDid you see her eyes bugout when they ask her about her stock buying. That was great..
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:47pmRemember Hillary and her Cattle Futures? She was luckier than the guy who hit “00” 27 times in a row at the Roulette table!
Report Post »Black Midge
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:59pmAll they have done is awaken a sleeping giant, and fill us with a terrible resolve.
Report Post »(with far reaching consequences) !!
garyM
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:58pmThat’s one way tolerance huh! They believe in tolerance just not for anyone but them and the left!
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:57pmIt’s about time for some good news. Let’s keep it up.
Report Post »nohussein
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:53pmNever tolerate a commie.
Report Post »nohussein
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:47pmTrue Americans are taking a stand, watch out progs.
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