10,000 march across Brooklyn Bridge to protest spike in anti-Semitic attacks

In a gigantic show cowl of unity in opposition to anti-Semitism, larger than 10,000 of us, along sideContemporary York‘s governor, marched all around the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday to utter a newest string of detest attacks within the Contemporary York-Contemporary Jersey space, along side amachete rampageat a rabbi’s home all over aHanukkahearn together.

The demonstrators chanted “No Abominate, No Alarm” as they gathered in Foley Square in lower Manhattan and marched all around the bridge to Cadman Square in Brooklyn, accompanied by a heavy police presence.

Contemporary York Gov. Andrew Cuomo kicked off the march by announcing the screech will utilize an extra $45 million to present protection to faith-based groups from being focused for detest crimes.

“I am heartened to ogle this unbelievable negate of toughen and unity. Literally over 10,000 of us maintain confirmed as much as negate toughen and enjoy for the Jewish community, and that’s the reason Contemporary York at her most productive,” Cuomo said.

The utter came a week after a man armed with a machete stormed a Hanukkah earn together at a rabbi’s home within the Contemporary York City suburb of Monsey, stabbing six contributors of the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish congregation.

Authorities arrested 38-yr-typical Grafton Thomas within the assault and discovered his journals contained anti-Semitic sentiments, along side references to Hitler and “Nazi Culture” “on the same net page as drawings of a Neatly-known person of David and a Swastika,” according to a prison criticism charging him with federal detest crimes. A Rockland County, Contemporary York,mountainous jury also indicted Thomason six counts of 2nd-diploma tried execute, three counts of first-diploma assault, three counts of first-diploma tried assault and two counts of first-diploma burglary,

The Hanukkah rampage followed at the very least 13 anti-Semitic attacks within the Contemporary York-Contemporary Jersey space, along side nine in Contemporary York City.

On Dec. 10, a man and a woman stormed a Jersey City, Contemporary Jersey, kosher supermarket in an apparent act of domestic terrorism and fatally shot three of us sooner than they were both killed by police. The alleged shooters, David Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50, are also suspected of killing Jersey City Det. Joseph Seals that same day in a cemetery about a mile from the kosher market, and were prime suspects within the killing of an Uber driver, whose physique became discovered on Dec. 7 within the trunk of a car in Bayonne, authorities said.

Every Anderson and Graham are believed to maintain expressed interest within the Sad Hebrew Israelites, a crew that espouses hatred in direction of Jews and is known for anti-authorities and anti-police sentiments, sources told ABC News.

“The newest rash of anti-Semitic and other detest-fueled attacks in Contemporary York and all around the nation are understandably inflicting scare, however we may perhaps well well additionally no longer be intimidated,” Cuomo said.

He said the funding to present protection to faith-based groups will near from the screech’s recent Securing Communities In opposition to Abominate Crimes Grant Program and can just serene also dart to day care services and products, community services and products, cultural museums, day camps, and non-public colleges connected to organizations that may perhaps well well be targets of doubtless detest crimes.

“In Contemporary York, we stand as much as these that strive to sow division and scare, and this recent funding will provide non secular and cultural institutions the toughen they need to abet defend themselves and defend of us actual,” Cuomo said. “We is no longer going to let the cancer of detest and intolerance weaken us, we can proceed to face up and denounce it at any time when it rears its gross head.”

The governor became joined at the demonstration by Contemporary York City Mayor Invoice de Blasio, Contemporary York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and other Contemporary York political and non secular leaders of all stripes.

Sunday’s utter became backed by the Jewish Neighborhood Members of the family Council of Contemporary York, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the Contemporary York Board of Rabbis.

“We as a Jewish community are standing along side the head elected officers of this screech and metropolis of Contemporary York and thousands upon thousands of Contemporary Yorkers, Jews who maintain near from all over this country and from all around the enviornment to screech, ‘No detest and no scare,'” said Michael Miller, govt vice president and chief govt officer of the Jewish Neighborhood Members of the family Council.