Williamsburg, NY – he NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating allegations that three teenagers perpetrated a possible bias incident against a 6-year-old Jewish boy in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the New York Post reported.
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The child was getting into the elevator of his apartment building at Clymer Street and Bedford Avenue at 4 p.m. Wednesday when the three teens harassed him, the police report said.
One snatched the yarmulke off his head and threw it out into the lobby, before all three got off the elevator and fled, according to the police.
Both the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force and Williamsburg’s Shomrim declined to comment further in the on-going investigation.
Thank G-D that’s all they did to him. We live in such terrible times.
Growing up in Brooklyn, this was the sort of thing that happened all the time. I don’t know anyone who wasn’t either called a “dirty jew,” had pennies dropped on the floor in front of them, called christ-killer, or some other christian-derived, “beaten up,” or forced to fight by local “shkutzim,” who were usually (take your pick) irish, italian, black, or puerto rican. Thankfully there weren’t too many arabs back then. Can’t say it was fun, but it never wound up on the news.
Horrible, where is the Shomrim, why so quiet? Was this child alone?
i hope the elevator had a video camera and the teens are caught
When I was growing up in Boro Park in the 70s that would be considered a good day. We were attacked by shkutzim almost every day. Back then there was a few streets between 18th avenue and McDonald in the 50s that you took your life in your hands. If all they did was take your kapel and throw it in the street you were just happy you didn’t get beaten up. Nobody ever called the police.
As someone who was called derogatory names associated with being an Orthodox Jew, I know that it has helped me become a stronger yid and individual. I have had to stand up for what I believe in, for who I am, and what my nation stands for.
Yes, people will always hate us for who we are. But why can’t we all take that and use it to strengthen our Emunah and our selves? Even though they hate us- we are the ones that are still around today. Where are the Babylonians?
This just exemplifies the psychosis of ingratitude and ignorance in a world of true study and trust.
The anti-Semitic incidents growing up in Flatbush during the 60’s and 70’s would shock the yungerleit of today. Everything from having blacks sing at me on the subway, ‘Hey Jew take your Jew cap off…’ To having a 250 pound Irish from Broad Channel working FOR a yeshiva, scream at the top of his lungs ‘Hey Jewboy!’ And then proceed to physically attack me, is not far from what is going on in Europe today. Sad to see from this story that these type of incidents are still taking place in Brooklyn.
thats why we had some chaptzems in those days…
was he alone? not that a 8 yr old would help much, but at least a parent
I grew up in Willy and encountered numerous attacks.
One Irish teenager smashed a tomato in my face while walking peacefully to Yeshiva.
Another incident happened on Rodney Street (Bedford and Lee) where a group of shvartze teens coming from Easter District HS cut off the payes of the Spinka Rebbe’s son (from Crown Heights), my classmate. He had long craazelte beautiful payes.
We just accepted that this was our plight in life. It was much better than what our parents, grand-parents and extended families encountered/endured in Europe, during the war.
On Driggs Ave. we had to cross the street if we saw some potential thugs coming toward us. Sometimes they followed us and taunted us.
None of my experiences makes the attack on this 6 YO fellow any less of a problem.
Rather shocking to hear about these horrible anti-semitic incidents in Brooklyn. I had no idea it was so bad there in the not so distant past. The things I put up with growing up in Wisconsin (made up of almost exclusively people of German or Polish background) of all places seem to pale in comparison. Horrible stories. I would like to think that things have changed for the better. Being in the severe minority here in Wisconsin, I just naturally thought that in a place like New York, with so many Yidden, these things would not occur with such frequency or would be taken care of by a show of force. Obviously incorrect. I do think things have changed a lot, both with law enforcement and Jews hopefully defending themselves more vigorously, but I may be totally wrong. Anyway, very disturbing to hear about, both back then and now.