Friday, 19 Apr 2024

Thousands join NYC Jewish solidarity march amid spate of anti-Semitic attacks

Thousands streamed across the Brooklyn Bridge Sunday in a march to show solidarity with New York’s Jewish community amid a surge of anti-Semitic attacks in and around the city.

Officials said more than 10,000 people joined the rally against recent violent acts, which have included the machete slashing at a rabbi’s house in Monsey and kosher grocery store shooting in Jersey City.

“People in the city [have] taken very seriously what’s happened,” demonstrator Steve Cohen, 56, told The Post. “We can’t tolerate these attacks in our community and attack against our community. When one minority is persecuted every minority is persecuted.”

Marchers gathered at Foley Square in lower Manhattan with signs reading “No Hate, No Fear” and “Unfriend Intolerance” then crossed the bridge to Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza, shutting down some lower Manhattan streets in the process.

Miriam Friend, 72, said she was there to call on city officials to provide more security at Jewish cultural and religious centers.

“The city has to do more for the Jewish community,” Friend said. “In the synagogues and community centers, we just don’t feel safe. I don’t feel safe. Anybody can just come by and kick down the doors.”

The recent rash of anti-Semitic crimes reported in the city include teens attacking two young Jewish boys in Williamsburg on Dec. 23, as well as a group punching a 56-year-old man in Crown Heights the following day.

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