NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Accused of Fanning Antisemitism in Tweet — PLUS MUCH MORE ANTISEMITISM NEWS

 
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, 69, recently incurred the anger of the Jewish community in the nation’s largest city and elsewhere because of what he tweeted after hundreds of ultra-Orthodox mourners gathered for the funeral of a notable rabbi. (The tweet is contained in the article linked below.) The event reportedly violated COVID-19 assembly guidelines.
 
While no one claimed the gathering was acceptable, many objected to the fact that de Blasio singled out the entire “Jewish community” -– which numbers some 1 million in New York -– rather than focusing on the very small segment he was criticizing. Whether he intended to or not, he was accused of fanning already-existing antisemitism related to the pandemic. De Blasio later apologized, saying, “I used words I wish I hadn’t used.”
 
Quote: “The tweets would have been outrageous coming from any elected official. Certainly, the city has the right to police people breaking its stay-at-home ordinances. Protecting first responders and flattening the curve are absolute values in the public interest. But the mayor painted a whole community with the brush of its offenders — portraying the entire ‘Jewish community’ as diseased malefactors requiring police intervention to stop the spread of the virus.” — from an article in the Forward by opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon
 
Sources: Wikipedia, Forward.com
 
Learn more about Bill de Blasio on Wikipedia. >>
 
Read “De Blasio is stoking anti-Semitism. He’s not alone” by Batya Ungar-Sargon. >>
 
Read “Why some ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities defy social distancing” by Richard Allen Greene. >>
 
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