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| DATE | 2020-10-08 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] NY Times slant
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On 10/8/20 8:40 AM, einker wrote:
> The issue here is multi-dimensional and this Boro Park Mob mentality is
> what we are dealing with now. It's never ok to beat down
> other jews who disagree with you or ANYONE for that matter. Don't give
> credibility to the Orthodox or Ultra Orthodox communities
> just because you agree that mask wearing is not working or infringes on
> your non-existant religious rights. Plenty of jewish communities outside
> of Brooklyn, Queens, and Lakewood are celebrating Sukkos but responsibly so
> WEAR THE DAMN MASK. Daven in open air courtyards or spaces but keep
> socially distant.
>
> I don't want to become ill or die for anyone and I don't want to be that
> person like Trump who becomes a super-spreader.
>
And BTW - where the FUCK were these assholes when we have 70%+ possitive
rates in NYC, and the Bronx and in Flatbush...
they were letting the BLM riots go on and on and on.
>
>
>
> Orthodox Borough Park Residents Burn Masks, Beat Dissenters Over COVID
> Lockdown
> BY JAKE OFFENHARTZ
> OCT. 7, 2020 9:35 A.M.
> • 390 COMMENTS
>
> [image: An Orthodox man tossing a mask into a street fire in Borough Park
> earlier Wednesday morning]
> An Orthodox man tossing a mask into a street fire in Borough Park earlier
> Wednesday morning PROVIDED TO GOTHAMIST
>
> Hundreds of members of Brooklyn's Orthodox community stormed the streets
> and synagogues of Borough Park on Tuesday night to protest new coronavirus
> restrictions
>
> imposed
> by Governor Andrew Cuomo.
>
> Pledging "war" on officials and public health guidance, demonstrators clad
> in black religious garb set fires along 13th Avenue and tossed masks into
> the flames. They chased away NYC Sheriff's Deputies while shouting "Jewish
> Lives Matter," video shows, and attacked a photojournalist
>
> attempting
> to capture the scene.
>
> Another Orthodox man, who'd opposed the anti-mask crowd, was deemed a
> "snitch" and reportedly hospitalized after a mob of protesters beat him
> with rocks. His brother, Mordy Getz, told Gothamist that he was "severely"
> injured and knocked unconscious, but was doing better as of Wednesday
> morning.
>
> This is a Hasidic counter-protestor who called out people in his community
> today for protesting wearing masks.
>
> He was beaten with rocks and is now in critical condition.
>
> The group was led and instigated by -at-JustEnoughHeshy
> (who called them
> his "soldiers") and -at-KalmanYeger
> .
> pic.twitter.com/3Men26htez
> — Elad Nehorai (-at-PopChassid) October 7, 2020
>
>
> Boro Park uprising against -at-andrewcuomo
> -at-nycmayor
> has begun. People
> starting fires in the street. So not normal. pic.twitter.com/AB5BpfeyvF
>
> — NYCPHOTOG (-at-nycphotog) October 7, 2020
>
>
> There is a mask burning going on in Boro Park, Brooklyn.
> pic.twitter.com/HKebbFp3pr
> — Yaakov Pollak (-at-Yanky_Pollak) October 7, 2020
>
>
> Here is the horrific moment a reporter got assaulted by a crowd in Borough
> Park tonight pic.twitter.com/r0kpnJm3uc
> — Martin Samoylov (-at-martin_samoylov) October 7, 2020
>
>
> Police said there were no arrests or summonses issued to the demonstrators.
>
> The violent scene played out hours after Cuomo announced a tiered system of
> lockdowns
>
> in
> neighborhoods with spiking infection rates. Across swaths of Central
> Brooklyn and Queens, schools and non-essential businesses will be forced to
> close, and houses of worship must limit capacity to ten people at a time.
>
> Officials in Borough Park vowed to defy the restrictions on religious
> observance.
>
> "I don't care who in government thinks they can stop us," City Councilman
> Kalman Yeger, who represents the neighborhood, told protesters on Tuesday.
> "They're wrong, let them try."
>
> Councilman -at-KalmanYeger
> joins the protest on
> #13thAve
> pic.twitter.com/9G2RzkL9oG
> — Boro Park News (-at-BoroPark24) October 7, 2020
>
>
> Community resident Heshy Tischler tells protesters in the presence of an
> NYPD inspector: “You are my soldiers. We are at war.”
> pic.twitter.com/9sneRVxrf3
> — Jacob Kornbluh (-at-jacobkornbluh) October 7, 2020
>
>
> Residents in Borough Park have largely flouted public health rules on masks
> and gatherings
> ,
> even as the positivity rate in the area has surpassed 8 percent, the
> highest in the five boroughs.
>
> "Nobody here has the virus," said a woman walking in Borough Park with her
> children on Tuesday, adding that lockdowns were politically motivated by
> Democrats. "The president got the virus, he recovered. There are medicines
> now."
>
> The overnight protest was organized by Heshy Tischler, an anti-mask
> activist and radio host who last month interrupted a public health briefing
> .
> He told the crowd on Tuesday that such demonstrations would take place
> nightly until the ban on gatherings was lifted. "You are my soldiers," he
> said. "We are at war." As he spoke, other demonstrators could be heard
> chanting "Donald Trump."
>
> Shulim Leifer, a Hasidic man and former Borough Park resident, said the
> community was plagued by right-wing misinformation about the virus.
>
> "What we witnessed is a community that is so lacking in responsible
> leadership that thugs and criminals like Heshy Tischler carry the day,"
> Leifer told Gothamist on Wednesday morning. "This isn't who we're supposed
> to be."
>
> *Additional reporting by Gwynne Hogan.*
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 8:09 PM Ruben Safir wrote:
>
>> algemeiner.com
>> New York Times Flunks Again in Coverage of Jews and Coronavirus
>> by Ira Stoll
>> 5-6 minutes
>>
>> A taxi passes by in front of The New York Times head office, Feb. 7,
>> 2013. Photo: Reuters / Carlo Allegri / File.
>>
>> Double standards. Factual errors. Disproportionate coverage and lack of
>> context. Conflicting information.
>>
>> The problems that consistently afflict New York Times coverage of Jews
>> and Judaism, particularly Orthodox Jews and Orthodox Judaism, are
>> flaring again amid the newspaper’s coverage of New York’s latest
>> coronavirus outbreak.
>>
>> A New York Times column this week by Ginia Bellafante faulted the
>> “insular” community for being ill-informed. “The city needs to do a
>> better job at getting information to an insular community that already
>> believes it has herd immunity,” a subheadline over the column said.
>>
>> The column begins:
>>
>> “DO NOT test your child for Covid.”
>>
>> So began a text that recently circulated on the messaging platform
>> WhatsApp, among yeshiva parents in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community.
>>
>> A few paragraphs later, the Times column says, “many large Hasidic
>> families live in small, cramped apartments, typically without internet
>> access and often with just a landline.”
>>
>> The end of the column includes the paragraph, “In a community that
>> prizes seclusion and remains averse to technology, information has a
>> tendency to spread very slowly.”
>>
>> So which is it — landline only and technology averse? Or texting on
>> WhatsApp? The Times columnist can’t seem to make up her mind about which
>> broad-brush stereotype to deploy in describing Orthodox Jews.
>>
>> The same column reports:
>>
>> Governor Cuomo and his health commissioner, Howard A. Zucker, have
>> also been talking to religious leaders …One crucial message that has yet
>> to be received, Dr. Zucker said, is that herd immunity is a myth in
>> these communities. Many in this part of Brooklyn believe that because
>> the Orthodox were hit so hard by the virus this spring, they must have
>> already been sick, and that the crisis has passed. This, according to
>> public health officials, is simply not true.
>>
>> Well, where could this “insular” community have possibly gotten this
>> “myth” of herd immunity from?
>>
>> Quite possibly from The New York Times itself, which in a July 10 news
>> article reported:
>>
>> According to antibody test results from CityMD that were shared with
>> The New York Times, some neighborhoods were so exposed to the virus
>> during the peak of the epidemic in March and April that they might have
>> some protection during a second wave.
>>
>> “Some communities might have herd immunity,” said Dr. Daniel Frogel,
>> a senior vice president for operations at CityMD, which plays a key role
>> in the city’s testing program… While stopping short of predicting that
>> those neighborhoods would be protected against a major new outbreak of
>> the virus — a phenomenon known as herd immunity — several
>> epidemiologists said that the different levels of antibody prevalence
>> across the city are likely to play a role in what happens next, assuming
>> that antibodies do in fact offer significant protection against future
>> infection.
>>
>> “In the future, the infection rate should really be lower in
>> minority communities,” said Kitaw Demissie, an epidemiologist and the
>> dean of the School of Public Health at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in
>> Brooklyn.
>>
>> A Times news article headlined “Backlash Grows in Orthodox Jewish Areas
>> Over Virus Crackdown by Cuomo” carries a correction: “An earlier version
>> of this article misstated the title of Simcha Felder. He is a state
>> senator, not a state assemblyman.”
>>
>> The Times news article describes the protesters against Cuomo and de
>> Blasio as a “angry” and a “mob,” terms the Times has largely avoided
>> using to refer to Black Lives Matter protesters, whom the newspaper has
>> repeatedly described as “mostly peaceful.”
>>
>> Three paragraphs of the Times article report “the anger was not limited
>> to the Orthodox Jewish community. The Roman Catholic Diocese of
>> Brooklyn, which has 1.5 million followers and 210 churches in Brooklyn
>> and Queens, said it was taken by surprise by the governor’s
>> announcement. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn condemned the new
>> rules as ‘outrageous’ in a statement on Tuesday night.”
>>
>> “The religious freedom of our parishioners is being unjustly attacked,”
>> DiMarzio is quoted as saying.
>>
>> One wonders why the Catholics are three paragraphs in the middle of a
>> long story and headline about the Jews, rather than the Jews being three
>> paragraphs in the middle of a long story and headline about the
>> Catholics. Maybe the idea of Catholics as spreaders of disease just
>> doesn’t resonant as much for New York Times editors? As a libel against
>> Jews, though, it has a long, sordid history at the Times, of which this
>> is just the latest sad chapter.
>>
>> Ira Stoll was managing editor of The Forward and North American editor
>> of The Jerusalem Post. His media critique, a regular Algemeiner feature,
>> can be found here.
>>
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