Siyum Hashas ‘Waldo’ is Latest Victim of Anti-Semetic Verbal Assault on the Subway

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Yonatan Gray stands at the Siyum Hashas in his Waldo costume Jan 1st, 2020

NEW YORK (VINnews) — At the Siyum Hashas, Yonatan Gray stood out like a striped thumb.

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As he entered the Subway, he also stood out to the anti-Semitic train rider that sat across from him.

In this episode, he was not sporting his Waldo costume nor anything else that would standout from the others riding the train. The only thing different was that he was wearing a Yarmulke, which is the catalyst that set off the lady sitting across from him on the train.

He wrote on his twitter feed following the verbal assault:

This is real.Just happened to me. Walked onto the NYC subway wearing my yarmulke. (Costume off) and this lady started yelling and cursing at me. Including F&@k all you Jews.Tried to film quickly. And she threatened to beat me up. Having the station attendant call the police now.

He followed up that he filed a police report and that it had been filed as a hate crime.

For weeks, anti-Semitic attacks have been surging in and around New York City — from assaults in Brooklyn to the shooting in Jersey City to the recent stabbing in Monsey on Hanukkah.

Eric Ward, an anti-racist activist who is African-American and frequently speaks about the danger of anti-Semitism, says Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn live in many of the same neighborhoods as black people and are sometimes turned into scapegoats for racism and other societal challenges.

“Black people aren’t in poverty and racial segregation because of the ultra-Orthodox community,” he said. “They are facing those things because of longstanding white supremacy in New York, in terms of policies and in terms of values. The problem is that there is a segment of black population who believes that Jews can be targeted out of those frustrations, and when bad interactions happen between the ultra-Orthodox and the black community it reinforces to that smaller part of the black population that their anti-Semitic beliefs are justified.”

Earlier this year, the ADL found that 2018 saw the third-highest number of anti-Semitic incidents since 1979.

What’s still unclear is why the spike is happening now — and whether the attacks are connected.

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Lou
Lou
4 years ago

I think there’s something going on in social media among the blacks.

Triumphinwhitehouse
Triumphinwhitehouse
4 years ago

As usual nypd useless

Chinky
Chinky
4 years ago

The problem is with these phone videos is by the time the victim starts shooting, with the perp is already sayinging they will take away the phone or to put away the phone…you don’t see the actual verbal abuse going on before the phone is turned on…

Perhaps Jews should start wearing body cams…I’m just halfway jocking…

anonymous
anonymous
4 years ago

We marched, we condemned, the pols made statements_ enough. Time to get vigilante. We need a Meir Kahane.

Curious
Curious
4 years ago

I’ma put this out here…

Who’s offering these folks money to harass visibly religious Jews?

Texas Joe
Texas Joe
4 years ago

Her momma should have stuck a bar of soap in her mouth when she was a little girl.

Normal
Normal
4 years ago

Really not complicated. Google black Hebrew Israelites.

Dlewny
Dlewny
4 years ago

This comment is for the Jewish Anti-Trumpers that usually frequent here. Where is Schumer, Nadler, etc now? Awfully quiet as usual. Only President Trump called it by its name (Anti-Semitism).
The others have their heads in the sand so they don’t insult their voter base. Time for you liberals to wake up already. What will it take?

Old city jew
Old city jew
4 years ago

Maybe god is telling him something ?

annanymous
annanymous
4 years ago

JDL – JDL – JDL- JDL watch how fast things will stop

Itchke
Itchke
4 years ago

Maybe this new bail reform is a good thing. Knock one of these chatzilim’s teeth out and be home before supper mitn kinder

perspective
perspective
4 years ago

Waldo at the Siyum Hashas! Disrespectful. Weird. Off.

Triumphinwhitehouse
Triumphinwhitehouse
4 years ago

Nypd patrols only dunkin donuts and 711

Was a demorat until I saw the light
Was a demorat until I saw the light
4 years ago

Persp no not at all he’s celebrating. Completing 7.5 years of daf. My 4 th completion. Congratulations yo all see you in 7.5 years But this utter hate Coming from the left yes chucked party is more then troubling. Time to start arming and training our selves

Voice of Reason
Voice of Reason
4 years ago

There is a narrative that the liberals would be moseir nefesh to hide. We once believed that racism was only whites toward blacks. Today, it is blacks toward whites. And the usual choice of victims is Jews. The completely ridiculous concept of white privilege is part of this contemporary delusion. But it is the narrative that is part of the liberal Democrat DNA, and it will only go away when the culture changes. The way to change that culture is to put these fools into retirement. Vote Republican.

triumphinwhitehouse
triumphinwhitehouse
4 years ago

all this black hatred stems from their Soros funded “religious” leaders like Sharpton, wright, Jackson, Farrakhan but was taken to a new level by the Kenyan BORN Muslim squatter in the white house who started a race war.

The_Truth
The_Truth
4 years ago

The whole Black mentality that the Jews are taking over is itself false. Most of the black ghetto neighborhoods were White & often vibrant Jewish neighborhoods before the blacks moved in.

Mindy
Mindy
4 years ago

People need to start wearing small bodycams/spypen cameras that you can turn on with the touch of a button instead of using the phone, they get mad when you take out your phone to film. I own such a little camera, it’s not expensive, I wear it on my coat when i visit my child at his special residence so I can film his delight when i walk in and i dont have to use 2 hands to hold a phone.