By COLlive reporter
An alarming graffiti was discovered at a contested construction site alongside the Brooklyn Botanic Garden that has been associated with Jewish developers.
The writing “Spermo says kill you landlord” was painted on the site located on Montgomery Street and Franklin Avenue between Crown Heights and Park Slope.
As reported on COLlive.com, the Movement To Protect The People and its head Alicia Boyd are battling the rezoning of the properties and used Stars of David to incidate the corporations that purchased the sites.
An email sent by the group on Thursday, September 5, 2019, accuses both real estate developers, community leaders and elected officials of “Shady Business Deals” and “Shell Games.”
The email placed a blue Star of David near the real estate corporations allegedly owned by Jews: Carroll Development Plaza LLC, 931 Carroll LLC, CP VI Crown Heights LLC, and Cornell Crow LLC.
Geoffrey Davis, Democratic District Leader for the 43rd Assembly District, called on Boyd to “address her intentions publicly and apologize.” Devorah Halberstam, co-founder of the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, said: “The underlying objective in this is nothing but clear anti-semitism disguised as community interest.”
Jewish community activist Yaacov Behrman said: “I see no other reason to use a blue star other than to send a coded message that the developers are Jewish. Such imagery directly contributes to violence against Jews.”
COLlive.com has reached out to Alicia Boyd and the Movement To Protect The People for comment.
…we know what she truly thinks. An apology would ring hollow without honest contrition and teshuvah. We have heard such “apologies” (not that any has been forthcoming from Boyd!) from non-Jewish public figures in Brooklyn before — both elected and self-appointed “leaders.” Then they go on their merry way and continue to sin when it suits them. PLUS: Why is no one calling for the graffiti-writer to apologize? Why is it only a way to intensify our concern about Boyd, and not its own hate crime, also? Then there’s the matter of her followers. How does society eradicate hatred from… Read more »
The judge gave the criminal a light sentence completely out of the norm for murder which will have the perpetrator soon back on the streets, thus providing explicit encouragement to other such criminals.
Why can’t we just say that some in the black community are viciously racist? Identifying the problem is the first and necessary step so finding and implementing the solution.
As are some in our own commmunity viciously racist.
Get back to us when some in our own community are hitting black people with bricks, shooting each other, stealing packages, breaking into cars, etc…
Sounds like you’d rather we kept quiet. Sorry, not happening.
The one calling for this heinous behavior is heinous themselves which is why they used such an unconscionable dishonorable name.
1) She lives in a $2 million dollar Brownstone in CH, but rallies against housing for working class people. Her fellow MTOPP pals also live in Brownstones on the same street, yet claim to fight for the people by…..rallying against increased affordable housing. 2) She tried to link gentrification with the Israel/Palestine Conflict before. May 2016 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsWgcSPbT6Y 3) Boyd previously sent out anti-Semetic emails http://crownheights.info/communal-matters/524850/cb-9-member-responds-to-anti-semitic-letter/ 4) She has about around 100 followers and the candidates she has endorsed have in local elections have all lost. Boyd endorsed Geoffrey Davis for Assemblyman – he ended up losing with a little… Read more »
This is terrible! This needs to end
Fulfilling your obligations to your tenants goes a long way to diffusing antisemitism.