The NYPD Hate Crime Unit is investigating swastikas discovered scrawled inside an elevator in a Williamsburg apartment building. CBS reports that the swastikas were found inside an elevator at 70 Ross Street in Williamsburg. According to the Post, the same building was targeted earlier this month, when a swastika was etched into the button control panel of an elevator.
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NYPD Hate Crime Unit Investigating Brooklyn Elevator Swastikas
Man Stabbed On Subway In Park Slope Fought Over Anti-Semitic Slurs
More details have emerged about the man who was stabbed on a Park Slope subway yesterday—while initial reports said that the incident occurred on the G train, the Daily News says it was an F train, and the spat began over some anti-Semitic comments.
Synagogue Terror Suspect's Mom: "This Was A Set Up"
Yesterday, one of the two men accused of planning an anti-Semitic terror attack against a Manhattan synagogue claimed that he had nothing to do with the plot. In a tearful Riker's Island interview, Mohammad Mamdouh said it was all Ahmed Ferhani's fault, and he was the one who "spoke about guns and blowing things up." But someone's mother begs to differ: Ferhani's mother told the News that Mamdouh's accusation was a lie, and said her son was the victim of entrapment. "This was a set up. They targeted my son because he is a minority," she said.
Synagogue Terror Suspect: Blame The Other Guy, It Wasn't Me!
This week, authorities announced they had arrested two men in connection with an anti-Semitic terrorist plot; Moroccan Mohammad Mamdouh and Algerian Ahmed Serhani, who both lived in Queens, allegedly planned to sell drugs in order to make money to buy grenades and explosives, dress up as Hasidic Jews, and plant a bomb at a Manhattan synagogue. But in a Rikers Island interview with the News, Mamdouh got choked up, and denied he had anything to do with the plot: "[Ferhani] was the one who was talking about all the weapons and everything else. I never spoke about guns and blowing things up, either. That was him. It was all his idea. I had nothing to do with any of it."
Man Who Says Galliano Was Anti-Semitic Doesn't Think Galliano Is Anti-Semitic
So, John Galliano, the flamboyant bad boy designer, was fired from his position at Christian Dior over alleged anti-Semitic remarks (and a video of him saying, "I love Hitler"), is currently in rehab and faces prosecution for the remarks, which supposedly include calling a woman a "dirty Jew face." But now his accuser says, "I don't believe he's racist or anti-Semitic ... I think above all that he's very ill and that for him it was about provocation."
Anti-Semitic Driver Drops "KILL JEWS" Notes Around NY
Once a Jew-hating note scribbler, always a Jew-hating note scribbler it seems: Demetrios Apolonides was arrested by police yesterday on a hate crime charge of aggravated harassment for writing threatening, anti-Jewish notes on torn up vouchers and dropping them around Long Island. This isn't the first time Apolonides has done this dance though: it took the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force 16 months to catch him earlier this year for a similar crime.
Anti-Semitic "Joke" Costs Ronan Tynan His Yankees Gig
Ronan Tynan is a celebrated Irish tenor who sings "God Bless America," at Yankee Stadium during the formerly forced seventh inning patriotism stretch. He was supposed to perform at tonight's American League championship opening game between the Yankees and the Angels, but the Yankees have thrown him under the bus following some awkward, anti-Semitic comments Tynan made in his East Side apartment building.
Windsor Terrace Hate Crime Alleged At Pro Diver's House
Around 2 a.m. on Tuesday, Lenny Speregen awoke to the sound of rocks and eggs being thrown at his house in Windsor Terrace; witnesses say the thugs, who escaped, where shouting anti-Semitic slurs. Speregen is a professional diver who recently shared stories about all the weird stuff he's seen in the city's rivers. He tells the Daily News, "This came out of left field. I feel 40% anger and 60% fear. My family lives here." Seriously, WTF, Brooklyn?
Q Train Beating Twist: Muslim Helped Jewish Victims Fight Off Attackers!
The story around the possible hate crime attack on a Q train the other night seems to be made for the season. Not only does it come while subway violence is a big topic, it also involves a group of Jewish subway riders being called "dirty Jews" and "Jew bitches" and attacked by people who cried, "Happy Hanukkah, that's when the Jews killed Jesus." And here's the kicker: The only person who stepped in...
Possible Hanukkah Bias Incident on Q Train
Police are investigating an attack on a Brooklyn-bound Q train as a possible hate crime. A group of people (WNBC says they were on their way home from Hanukkah celebrations) were called anti-Semitic phrases and then beaten up by another group of ten people at Canal Street. The Post has some more details: Apparently one of the attackers "made anti-Semitic remarks about Jews killing Jesus, saying, 'This is a Christian country.'" But the father of...
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