By COLlive reporter
A Jewish resident of Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood was punished by Facebook for openly expressing her concern over the repeated attacks against Jews in the area.
The woman, who asked not to be named out of fear of retaliation by neighbors, told COLlive.com that the social media giant blocked her from entering the website for 30 days.
Her original comment, posted on a Facebook group about Lubavitch and local issues on Tuesday, read:
“When are local politicians going to address the problem of black on Jewish crime here in Crown Heights? You never hear of Jews beating up or attacking blacks. But every few months there is another string of black on Jewish crimes.
“Since I have lived in Crown Heights, I have heard of blacks assaulting, pulling knives on and robbing Jewish people in the neighborhood. In latest incident, a Jewish man had his nose broken by a group of blacks kids during Shabbos. When will this end? And when can we start walking the streets at night again without fear?”
Not long after writing it, Facebook notified her: “We removed one of your posts because it doesn’t follow the Facebook Community Standards. We created our standards to help make Facebook a safe place for people to connect with the world around them.”
Facebook also offered her, “If you think your posts shouldn’t have been removed, you can reply to this message with more information and we’ll review the post again.”
The Jewish woman wrote back: “I was just stating facts. It is a fact that we have black on Jewish crime here in Crown Heights. It is something that needs to be addressed. I am not racist. I am just stating facts. The Jewish community lives in fear after several attacks including one where a Jewish man’s nose was broken on Friday.”
She has yet to receive a reply.
In a conversation with COLlive.com, she said that she was troubled by the incident.
“I feel the ban is unfair. People don’t get banned for threats, anti-Semitism or harassment. But they get banned for the truth about crime here in Crown Heights and pro-Israel posts. Seems ridiculous to me.”
Poverty or low socio-economic status does not cause crime. Most people, regardless of ethnicity are just doing the best they can with (limited) resources. Why not try being pragmatic instead of seeking victimhood?
When you say blacks are committing the crimes, it may sound like a stigma that ALL or only blacks are criminals or, at best, suspect. Understandably, they – anyone – would fear the effect and fallout of this. Therefore, in order to be more “sensitive,” better to say something like this: CRIMINALS are committing these crimes, without pointing out their ethnicity or religion.
Someone needs to put tefillin on Mark Zuckerberg.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jewish-men-beaten-belt-berlin-155942597.html
If Yahoo is printing Muslim on Jew violence in Berlin, why shouldn’t facebook print black on Jew violence in Brooklyn. The motivating factor for the attack is religion. Since the motivated action by the assailant is a recurring act from individuals within a group, then there is a problem within that group (black community), which individuals should be aware of. How many random attacks, (by a stranger, not stealing) on African-American men happen by other African-American men ? Then we can call what happened black on Jew crime. The politicians should recognize it, Facebook should print it.
NY Magazine “The Internet Apologizes” 4/13/2018…
The man who oversaw the creation of the original iPhone believes the device he helped build is too addictive…. Even Sean Parker, Facebook’s first president, has blasted social media as a dangerous form of psychological manipulation. “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains,” he lamented recently. Wake up!!
You say it’s a “class issue” but if that were the only explanation, the many super-poor Jewish families would have a lot of criminals among their ranks. To my knowledge that is not the case. It is a situation where the poor NON-JEWS are the criminals. That’s not a “class” issue, since many of our frum families are “lower class” in economic status. It is not “Politically Correct” to say this, but the problem is also cultural. As others have already said, most of our Black fellow Crown Heightsers are upstanding, good, G-d-fearing people who’d never hurt a fellow Crown… Read more »
There are other social media options.
To blame everything on economics and other social science textbook boilerplate is to deny the humanity and spirituality of whole swathed of people. I have met plenty of people in all these groups who have succeeded in rising above “what everyone else is doing”. Moshiach Now.
When a black man was shot, people criticised Collive for not mentioning he was Black, but now that a black man beats a jewish guy, we should just ignore his race.
We all know that if it was the other way around, the media would cry racism, but when the attack is
Committed by a black man, not a voice is heard.
If the blacks were upper middle class, educated and hard working we’d have no issue. If the white hipsters were impoverished, bored and desperate, we’d have them attacking us. Skin color has nothing to do with this. It’s a class issue.
Once, during an argument with my hyper-liberal father about the problems in the African-American communities, I said, “I don’t think you can blame everything on racism.”
He paused, then somberly said, “You’re starting to sound like a Republican.”
The 71st Pct. Council General Meeting for April will be Thursday, April 19, at the school on the corner of Empire Blvd and NY Ave. 7:30PM. The participants can voice their concerns and network with community leaders and politicians.
segregation: Illegal for decades low education: NY spends a tremendous amount on Public Schools; blacks have access to more educational resources now than at any time in the past dysfunction among families: Sure. Why? homelessness: No worse in the black community than among white drug users. drug and other issues: Sure. Why? The crime committed by American blacks is astronomical, exponentially higher than among equally poor whites. I don’t think the situation is hopeless, but pretending that it’s all a function of racism hurts blacks themselves by sidestepping the problem. It’s just like pretending that Islamic terrorism is a socioeconomic… Read more »
There is a massive culture problem in the black community right now as a whole, not just in crown heights. This is evident when you look at the numbers and find that although blacks are only 13% of the population they commit 50% of the murder, the single motherhood rate is 70% right now in the black community compared to 20% during the civil rights movement, and for all the the talk of police brutality, far and away the most likely way a black will be killed will be by another black. There are very serious culture problem in the… Read more »
IT IS A MUST TO HAVE CHASIDIM. BOTH MEN AND WOMEN SPEAK IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN CROWN HEIGHTS AND AROUND THE SURROUNDING AREAS .
WHEN THE KIDS WILL SEE THAT WE ARE HUMAN, NICE AND CARING PEOPLE THEY WOULD REACT DIFFERENTLY.
THESE KIDS COME FROM RACIST BLACK HOMES WHO BLAME JEWS FOR ALL THEIR ILLS. THEY HAVE SHARPTON AND FARAKAN AND THE MEDIA FEEDING THEM ALL THE LIES
1) to #9, I live a block away from Kingston.
2) To #18, thank you. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Sue them for a billion dollars for trauma and violation of rights. Include in the suit that by being silenced you are being reminded of Nazi Germany and since facebook allows BLM AND SJP they are discriminated and tormenting you. Its time they pay for their racism. Every post removed is a form of torment. 1,000,000,000 is the number to sue for. Contact the DOJ.
wake up. there is now many white yuppies in and around crown heights. do you see them attacking white jews? the black community has always been violent and looking for fun . no direction, not educated, lets face facts we live in a jungle
The crime in Crown Heights has nothing to do with the fact that the people committing the crimes are black and we are Jews. It has to do with the fact that the black community is one of a number of communities that have high crime rates due to segregation sometimes, low education, dysfunction among families, homelessness, drug and other issues. Most crime by black people is towards other black people. In other parts of the country the main perpetrators of crimes like these are white people. This is what we call socio-economic issues that cause crime. The reason there… Read more »
OPEN UP A 7 miTZVOS BNEI NOACH CENTER IN CH FOR BLACKS !! And any other nonjews
Do what the Rebbe wants us to do mivtza sheva mitzvos bnei Noach
If so please REPOST THE ORIGINAL POST. Let’s aim for 1,000 posts about the disgusting black againt Jew crime in CH. Maybe FB will block you for a month, but you may get some positive response from others who see your post before it gets taken down
isnt zuckerberg friends with the local shliach? I guess hes not as close to us lubavitch as we think!
“..They aren’t doing this because they are black and we are Jews.” Do you really think: (a) if there was instead a group of Jews out there they would they perpetrate the same viciousness ?? or (b) if the men walking by were black, there would be the same chance they would be attacked by the group that did the attack?? There are serious issues amongst many of the youth, which will lead them to very sad and unfortunate futures! It doesn’t help when their ‘leaders’ scapegoat Jews instead of encouraging emulating that which is admirable/beneficial about them. One of… Read more »
@ #4 ) We should reference the description of the assailant and the victim, to inform the public. Many of the knockout attacks are happening precisely because the victim is Jewish. Although the assailants aren’t doing this because they are black, but the fact is that is that they are coming from the black community. And while the crime rate may be high, the proper question would be how many times does an African-American youth punch out an African-American man in his 40’s who walks out of church, who the perp does not does not know or does not want… Read more »
On the 4 train by a young black teen.
Crime is way up.
Police don’t seem to care. And the black male youth seem to lack direction. This is a real issue.
SO: Is there also a pattern of black on yuppie/hipster crime in Crown Heights? IF it’s about equal to the black on Jewish crime, then I’d agree with #4. BUT THEN AGAIN, even if that’s the case, are there repeated instances of yuppies/hipsters attacking Blacks? I think not, just like what the original FB poster said, that Jews are not out there assaulting Blacks. So this is, unfortunately, likely, not just “a high crime rate.” This is not racist. It is LOGIC based on what is going on out there. There is ALSO (likely even more than Black on Jewish… Read more »
have you heard of white vs jew crime because i haven’t. growing up in crown heights every month or two i would hear of a kid in school who was mugged by a black. i don’t think all blacks are like that however the fact is in crown heights the majority of assaults of jews are by blacks. if you are a local you would know that unless your head is buried in the sand. if you aren’t a local don’t pose as one and spew garbage.
That’s EXACTLY why they are doing it. Get your head out of the sand.
Bottom line is that whites aren’t beating up Jews, blacks are. You never hear of white violent crimes against Jews in Crown Heights. You just hear of blacks assaulting Jews. The politicians should address this. Especially since they are black and it is their community who is doing the violence. If the local leaders worked harder to build bridges between the Jewish and black community I believe these crimes would slow down.
I don’t agree they are doing this precisely because we are jewish and they are black inspired by antisemitism, this is not your typical urban crime this is a targeting of a minority community
If they were white, would you call it “white on Jewish crime?” Their ethnicity is irrelevant. They aren’t doing this because they are black and we are Jews. We live in an urban center. There’s a higj crime rate, and that’s unfortunate.
If you don’t need fb for business, abandon it. They need you more than opposite. They make 100% of their revenue off of eyeballs.
switch to mewe instead of FB. A much better platform and network.
Eh, nevermind. Nobody uses facebook anyway.