Quote (thesnipa @ Dec 30 2019 01:55pm)
Working on that what's your theory on why jews specifically?
jewish landlords? accumulated propaganda in their community? jewish socialites in NY specifically?
I mean yeah its a long running thing
Orthodox jews are willing to buy property in black neighborhoods unlike whites who flee to the suburbs or ivory tower penthouses. They have insular communities with their own yeshivas, ambulances, community patrols, etc. With the disproportionate representation among landlords and the natural bias of muslims that were in the black panthers / NOI, they didn't need much reason to become anti-semitic- all the way back in the 1970s/80s/90s. The crown height riots were nearly 30 years ago, the people committing these crimes weren't even alive back then. That was when Rebbe Schneerson (hard to understate how important he was to orthodox jews, there was a large messianic movement around him) was traveling through a black neighborhood in a motorcade and another vehicle tried to catch up to the convoy and hit two young black kids, killing one. The jewish community ambulance services showed up first and helped out the jews before regular ambulances came for the black kids. Led to weeks of rioting, lots of anti-semitic violence and the lynching murder of a guy the black mob mistook for a jewish person. But in recent years its got a few particularly confounding factors. There's obviously the whole virulent political culture with rising left-wing violence in general, and when the blacks in NYC are nearly uniformly anti-Trump and the
orthodox jews (not NYC jews in general) are nearly uniformly pro-Trump, that's one factor. And with NYC local politics moving dramatically further left, its empowered local democrats who were elected to office despite overtly anti-semitic attitudes, like the guy who unironically claimed Jews control the weather (!). But then you've got the rise of the militant Black Lives Matter movement and anti-cop/white/jewish attitudes associated with it, and that already escalated to terrorist ambush murders of police. But the more major flashpoints have been over money- school district tax referendums and rising rent costs from gentrification. The orthodox jews send their kids to private Yeshivas instead of public schools, but then get taxed to fund the public school system, paying a very disproportionate amount of the cost despite not having their kids in the schools, because they're very disproportionately wealthy compared to blacks. And this comes up when the referendums, public subsidization of Yeshivas and public oversight of their curriculum are put to votes. When black people steeped in a history of ethnic hatred and Farrakhan-esque conspiracies see Orthodox Jews living one street over and doing well for themselves while voting against their social agenda in schools, it didn't take much for violence to start.
Besides the Crown Heights Riots, the East Ramapo School Board is a good topic to read up on to understand it
This post was edited by Goomshill on Dec 30 2019 02:17pm