WORST TAKE: NBC New York Says That The Rise In Anti-Semitic Attacks Can Be Blamed On The Jewish Community

If the Media(D) wants to stop being called the “enemy of the people” they’re going to have to stop actually being the enemy of the people.
In one of the most atrocious examples of “blaming the victim” that we’ve seen since the Covington kids incident, NBC New York has decided to put the onus on the Hasidic community for daring to move outside of their designated ghetto and expanding to other areas in the New York area. Because it’s obvious that the residents of those areas would be hostile to them.
Oh, my gosh! That is an absolutely HORRIBLE take!
https://twitter.com/NBCNewYork/status/1212724001648320518?s=20
Just reading that tweet makes me shudder.
If you think that the tweet was bad, the article manages to be even worse.
For years, ultra-Orthodox Jewish families pushed out of increasingly expensive Brooklyn neighborhoods have been turning to the suburbs, where they have taken advantage of open space and cheaper housing to establish modern-day versions of the European shtetls where their ancestors lived for centuries before the Holocaust.
The expansion of Hasidic communities in New York’s Hudson Valley, the Catskills and northern New Jersey has led to predictable sparring over new housing development and local political control. It has also led to flare-ups of rhetoric seen by some as anti-Semitic.
Now, a pair of violent attacks on such communities, just weeks apart, worry many that intolerance is boiling over.
(Emphasis added)
“Flare-ups of rhetoric seen by some as anti-Semitic” — that’s quite the take right there.
Also, there are unprovoked beatings in the streets, shootings, and stabbings are also things that are happening, NBC.
But wait! There’s more…
The author then goes on to show the bigotry of “small town” residents who don’t like those “outsiders.”
Honestly, this is truly awful and horribly bigoted in a multiplicity of ways.
In small towns everywhere, resentment against newcomers and “outsiders” isn’t uncommon. Proposals for multi-family housing complexes in sleepy communities of single-family homes often trigger fervent opposition complete with lawn signs and rowdy town board meeting crowds.
Yet the tone of the debates over growth in some areas where Hasidic families have been moving has been more intense.
Could it be… the rabid anti-Semitism that seems to be embraced by some in the black community? Anti-Semites like Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan are revered in some leftist circles and they are seen as “black leaders.” Perhaps promoting an anti-Semitic organization like the Nation of Islam is a bad thing?
Adding the suggestion that people who live in less urbanized communities are somehow backward and bigoted to the “she wore a short skirt so deserved it” attitude of Jews moving into predominantly black neighborhoods shows the bias of the “journalist” that wrote this garbage.
In the small town of Chester, 60 miles north of New York City in Orange County, New York Attorney General Letitia James recently announced action to fight housing rules that she said were being used to improperly prevent an influx of Hasidic Jews. Local officials have denied anti-Semitism was behind opposition to plans to build over 400 homes in the town of 12,000 residents.
Rockland County Executive Ed Day said the arguments over housing density involve legitimate policy issues and are the biggest challenge when it comes to accommodating the growing Orthodox Jewish community.
The Orthodox community has special needs, he said, like housing for large families and residences within walking distance to a synagogue. That creates “demands that are counter to many of the communities they’re residing in,” Day said.
Questionable zoning decisions, he said, lead to resentment.
Source: NBC New York
Questionable zoning decisions like forbidding new houses of worship to be built is one way to keep Orthodox Jews who keep the Sabbath from moving to the neighborhood.
That tweet was quickly called out as the trash that it is on Twitter.
So if only those jews stayed where they belonged there wouldn't be any antisemitism. Congratulations on the first worst take of the decade.
— angstlos 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@angstlos8) January 2, 2020
So Jews living outside of strictly defined areas (ghettos) are responsible for "civic sparring" and "recent violence." That violence and sparring always goes in one direction and is always blamed on the Jews. NBC will next call for Jews to be expelled.
— Harry Onickel (@Harry_Onickel) January 2, 2020
This is @NBCNewYork saying “well, the Jews were kinda asking to be attacked.” https://t.co/Ao0ufHBSiX
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) January 2, 2020
Is @NBCNewYork really blaming the Orthodox community for the attacks on the Orthodox community? https://t.co/KiFHb0cgO3
— RJC (@RJC) January 2, 2020
Guess whose fault it is that Jews are being beaten in the streets? The Jews!
Brilliant, @NBCNewYork. Now do the Holocaust. https://t.co/pPZ5D1TJOz
— Jake K. Turx (@JakeTurx) January 2, 2020
Hey @NBCNewYork is the person running this Twitter account honestly trying to defend the #MonseyStabbing?!
This is disgusting victim shaming! Shame on you! @NBCNews @nbc pic.twitter.com/MdMEqFDxVC
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) January 2, 2020
Mainstream outlets blaming antisemitism on gentrification. Alternative take: maybe some people are horrible and have objectively horrible views. Full stop. No justifying or mental gymnastics required. https://t.co/UOYuEb8pqi
— Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) January 2, 2020
If the attackers had been Proud Boys I bet the take here would be completely different.
— The Great Crusader Nero (@Adventure_Nero) January 2, 2020
When the violence is only going in one direction, maybe find better words than "conflict" which implies blame on both sides. A significant uptick in attacks have taken place with the perpetrators being black and the victims being Jewish. Name and Shame.
— Etana Hecht 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 (@EtanaHechtDC) January 2, 2020
Gee. I can't imagine why folks say the MSM is the "enemy of the people."
— Bridget Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) January 2, 2020
Some might read this tweet as a tacit suggestion that these Orthodox communities bear blame for the anti-Semitic violence against them for daring to expand outside NYC. https://t.co/VsrhApMfwN
— Retired Orrin G. Hatch (inactive) (@RetiredOrrin) January 2, 2020
Can you imagine reporters using this framing for any other community? https://t.co/LlLgURfVCp
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) January 2, 2020
It’s so odd how corporate media keep doing this over and over and over again. https://t.co/3PbXFXuwUl
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) January 2, 2020
Isn't it odd how so many in the media start playing the "maybe this whole anti-Semitism thing is half justified" game when anti-Semitism cuts against their political narrative? https://t.co/et3ZQ2lXP4
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 2, 2020
Camps in Germany and Poland were set up in the 1930's to address "civic sparring" https://t.co/qmHHPoJCOw
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) January 2, 2020
Some fear you should delete your account and fire your laptop into the sun https://t.co/xViubrIuug
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) January 2, 2020
What's fascinating is that everyone in mass media seems to agree they ignored the story for too long and did the community and their readers a grave disservice.
And to judge by the reporting, and the stuff in the Atlantic & Daily Beast et al, they are determined to do so again.
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) January 2, 2020
That's a solid ratio pic.twitter.com/kErFuRrwxs
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) January 2, 2020
https://twitter.com/scharb/status/1212752542318374913?s=20
I mean, sure, don't you also feel it's time to pick up a machete every time some people build a development in your neighborhood? Outrageous victim-blaming, @NBCNewYork. https://t.co/PLQ9AUkU02
— Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt (@avitalrachel) January 2, 2020
.@NBCNewYork teams up with local politicians in Rockland County blaming Jews for their own deaths. https://t.co/LZkvthudGC
— Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) January 2, 2020
“Civic sparring” pic.twitter.com/AqpfhuqVPG
— Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) January 2, 2020
Just imagine the outcry if a white supremacist entered a church full of black people and started stabbing people right and left, and a news outlet blamed the black victims for their own deaths.
Because this is exactly what @NBCNewYork is doing here. https://t.co/LZkvthudGC
— Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) January 2, 2020
That's what Goebbels said.
— Ari Sade 🇮🇱 (@arisade94) January 2, 2020
They were sufficiently shamed.
We are deleting an earlier tweet regarding a story on the recent anti-Semitic attacks in the tri-state area. A new tweet follows; we regret the error.
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) January 2, 2020
Here is the new tweet with the same garbage article.
Anti-Semitism grows in Jewish communities in #NYC suburbshttps://t.co/BnVbXBVZQd
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) January 2, 2020
I don’t think they’re going to issue a correction anytime soon, though.