Tel-Chai Nation

In what shouldn't be considered a shock anymore, in a state/city where violent crime's become coddled with leniency since the time Bill de Blasio was mayor, at least 6 Democratic council members voted against a resolution condemning antisemitism:

The New York City Council on Thursday passed a resolution declaring April 29 as “End Jew Hatred Day,” but the decision of six council members, one of whom represents a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, to oppose or abstain from voting on the measure has drawn a chorus of outrage from federal legislators, city lawmakers, and local Jewish community leaders.

Brooklyn council members Shahana Hanif (D), who represents Borough Park and Park Slope, and Sandra Nurse (D), who represents Bushwick, each voted “no,” while Charles Barron (D), democratic socialist Alexa Viles (D), Rita Joseph (D), and Jennifer Gutiérrez (D) all abstained from Thursday’s vote.

Shahana Hanif, who is the first the first Muslim woman elected to the council, denied on the floor of the body that voting against the measure makes her antisemitic, calling the accusation “extremely disrespectful” while insisting, “I continue to show up for our Jewish colleagues and communities.”

Hanif’s office did not immediately respond to The Algemeiner’s request for comment.

Barron, who has asserted that “the Semites are black” and has compared Israel’s military actions to the Holocaust, describing Gaza as a “death camp,” has been accused for years of being antisemitic by organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Last June, he disrupted a city council hearing on antisemitism, shouting that Israel is a “terrorist state.”

Barron, Joseph, and Gutiérrez did not immediately respond to The Algemeiner’s request for comment.

Another of the abstainers, Jennifer Gutiérrez, in a 2021 questionnaire by New York Jewish Agenda, which is part of the left-wing Progressive Israel Network, did not answer a question about her position on the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

One of the activists running the End Jew Hatred campaign said this was shocking they'd refuse to uphold a vote against antisemitism, but anybody who's a realist would recognize this isn't the case nowadays. Yet if the corruption rampant in NYC is any suggestion, there's little chance of ever wresting the Big Apple free of the Democrats' rule anymore. The whole burg is collapsing, as some have noted before, and may never recover.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, dhimmitude, islam, Israel, Moonbattery, New York, political corruption, United States