Rockland County, NY – A YouTube video comparing what the creators’ call anti-Semitism against Orthodox Jews in Rockland County to Nazi Germany is being condemned county officials.
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The video, called “The Jew in Rockland,” is focused on a Facebook page advocating against the power of the Orthodox bloc vote on Rockland County politics.
The video begins with narration about Jews in France leaving the country to avoid anti-Semitism, then focuses on New York.
“In New York, just moments from New York City … the Orthodox Jewish community lives in constant fear facing harassment and intimidation, fearing for their own safety and for the safety of their loved ones,” the narrator says.
The video compares images from the Facebook page on “Block The Block Vote” to ones used in Nazi Germany. It also shows what the producers call “hateful” comments on the page.
According to its page, the “Block The Block Vote” Facebook page is “an effort to end the current financial abuse of the Rockland county Community at large by the Orthodox and Hasidic Communities. Fairness is not anti Semitic.”
James Foley, who started the “Block The Block Vote” page, told , lohud (http://lohud.us/1NgbGEK) that he agrees that some of the comments on the page are offensive, but says he can’t monitor all of the comments made on the page.
Wilbur Aldridge, Mid-Hudson/Westchester regional director for the NAACP, said the message of video – urging the community and political leaders to show support for the Orthodox community – has the opposite effect.
The video was produced by Colossal PR on behalf of the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council (OJPAC).
Co-founder of OJPAC Yossi Gestetner said the video was created to bring to light the rising hate against the Orthodox and Hasidic communities in Rockland County.
“There are 8,500 people who shamelessly “Like” a Facebook Page whose name says it is about Orthodox Jews; whose short bio openly targets Orthodox Jews of Rockland County, and whose Description claims that the ‘County’s financial catastrophe is… Entirely causes by the Orthodox and Hasidic finical reliance on’ taxpayers. This is unprecedented and unabashed hate that has been ignored for too long and I am glad the video is bringing attention to it.” Gestetner told VIN news.
Information taken from lohud
Extremely stupid and ir-responsible to publish such a video
This video is despicable.
It is so wrong in so many ways, too many to list.
This is beyond despicable and should be condemned by all yids. How dare that Gestetner do this!! A pox on him for dragging us through the mud.
I live in Monsey for 45 years and never ever felt unsafe/ I’m ashamed of this video. It was produced by ignorant guys with no sense of history, can’t blame them they are the product of our mosdos and im ashamed at the some of the monsey people on the way they build with no regard to the neighbors (big shules with no parking, party halls with 4 parking spots etc.). but most monsey people are good people.
and i just want to add.. monsey was better off in the old days before the BLOC statred to control the elections, so you couldn’t over built that much.. so what, look at monsey now….
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t, on the one hand, vote in a large bloc in order to control politicians who look the other way while you take every advantage, sign up for every single welfare system available, change the zoning, and tell other people to move away if they don’t like it, and then complain when your neighbors get upset. Your neighbors are not Nazis. Calling them Nazis demonstrates your ignorance of what the Nazis were and also is a dishonor to the victims of the real Nazis, the victims who had their children taken from them and thrown into fire, who died in gas chambers and rotted away in camps under every conceivable agony. Your life in Rockland is not like the life of the Nazi victims. You have political power. The Nazi victims had none. You have homes, and outrageous amounts of government assistance while the victims of the real Nazis had everything taken from them. You are soft and petty and selfish. On the other side of things, your neighbors sometimes do go overboard in their criticism of your ways, but they are not Nazis, and let’s face it, you provoke them by your actions. You can’t throw your weight around and not expect some push back.
#11 , the cut and pasted head was a dumb and offensive thing to do.
But that is a far cry from the holocaust. There is this victim mentality in Monsey, and the Charedim world in general, about Goyim killing Yiddin. It gets played out over and over again and it absolves the Yiddin from feeling a need to behave in any normal way. So they create the “illegal” shuls, and over develop for the “desperately needed housing” for their children and children’s children. But they also do more nefarious things, like build illegal fire traps with too many families and the massive developments with no respect for the neighbors.
Then they cry anti-Semite when Goyim, and Jews object. Like #3, I have traveled extensively and places like Monsey and Boro Park are right at the top when it comes to a lack of decency in Bain Adam l’Chaveiro.
I saw this video, and I thought that it was excellent. Unfortunately, hate mongers/fear mongers, and plain old anti-semites will never admit to being hateful. How many times have we heard the ridiculous expression “Some of my best friends are Jews; my accountant is Jewish (a la Pat Buchanan). I remember when I was eating at a deli on 13th Avenue in Borough Park in 1968, that an anti-Semitic janitor who was working there, kept muttering “filthy people, filthy people”. One doesn’t have to go to Rockland County to see anti-Semitic behavior. We remember what happened on Chol Hamoed Pesach, in 2006, in Borough Park. Then, “NY’s Finest” unleashed their goons against innocent civilians of Borough Park, including tearing beards out of the faces of frum Jews, and shoving Jewish women. They wouldn’t have acted in such a hateful manner in Bay Ridge, or in Bed-Stuy, or Harlem. Jews must constantly be aware of any forms of anti-Semitism, and protest it loudly!!!
Whatever IronMaiden said, plus: I moved to Monsey 40 years ago. Money was beautiful back then. We did not complain at all about having to pay tuition for yeshivas on top of school taxes. After all, we recognized that this is the way it is in the United States of America, it could not be otherwise. Our children played on quiet streets. No traffic. No sidewalks. Three year olds rode tricycles and the occasional car knew to look out for them. We had trees, flowers, and no garbage and litter from neighbors decorating our property to pick up every day. We had darkness at night permitting sleep — no bright streetlights, no security lights blasting into our bedroom windows. Etc. But, to those who only experience happiness and joy with every new yeshiva, shul, and apartment building, who are totally incapable of understanding the pain they cause others who do not share their fervor, these things are nothing — the lifestyle and happiness of those who were here before — unimportant. Anti Semitism has always existed. It will never go away. But it can be stoked up to a fever pitch, which is exactly what the Ultra Orthodox have been doing. The new “holocaust” however, may affect all of us.