By COLlive reporter
On Sunday evening, a man in New York City hurled vile anti-Semitic remarks at two Chasidic Jews in Crown Heights.
The alleged assailant, who has not yet been identified, is seen on video footage verbally attacking Crown Heights resident Menachem Benchemon as he left a barber shop on St. Johns and Albany Avenue with Moshe Rubashkin.
According to Benchemon, the man randomly approached him and his friend as they were leaving the shop and began screaming at them: “You guys robbed me.”
Benchemon said that he tried to get the man to calm down so he could figure out what the man’s problem was but then the man launched into hurling anti-Semitic remarks at them.
Benchemon then began to video the exchange.
“Hitler didn’t not, Hitler did not kill enough of f—ng all you,” the man can be seen screaming in one video. “Hitler did not kill enough. He had the right to kill all because [inaudible] rat Jews. The rat Jews.”
In response to the incident, Moshe asked Menachem: “What is this, Nazi Germany?”
Moments later, as both Moshe and Menachem were riding in a vehicle on the next block over, the man continued to follow them and shout anti-Semitic expletives at them.
“Hitler had the right thing for all of you,” the man continued. “Hitler had the right to f—ing kill every one of you.”
Moshe’s parents, who are both still alive, are both Holocaust survivors.
This is the third anti-semitic incident involving remarks about Hitler in recent weeks in Crown Heights, including one where a Chasidic man was told, “Hitler is my best friend,” by a passing driver, and another in which a note was left on a mural at the Jewish Children’s Museum by a teenage girl with the words “Hitler is coming.” The Hate Crimes Unit is investigating the latter incident.
The Police have not yet identified either of the alleged perpetrators.
In May, the NYPD said hate crimes were up 67 percent in the first quarter of this year, with an 82 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents.
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They should have told him
Hitler would have killed YOU
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Hitler didn’t like black people, but there’s no record of him killing even the ones that lived in Germany.
The wickedness on his face make me think he’s more beast than human
Happened to me too
Nothing new. This has been going on in Crown Heights for decades.
Remind him of the Jesse Owen story in 1928, an American black Olympic runner, Hitler walked out every time he won, refused to congratulate him, and the other Jewish runners.
Hitler would have killed all the black people too, there just weren’t any in Europe then to kill!
And he didn’t kill them. There were even some black members of the Nazi party.
Where did you hear that? I never heard that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_black_people_in_Nazi_Germany#In_the_armed_forces
Not excusing his behaviour but he doesnt look like a well person.
because the poison that he spews is being fed from somewhere and is in his mind from sources he knows
I was verbally abused by a man and a woman on Shabbos on Troy Ave
Black racism is shoved under the rug. No one like to talk about it.
Fact is:
Among the group that cries racism and what not (together with many in the media and their liberal conspirators), are from the most racist and hating people in the US of A.
For example: Sterilisation: an assault on families It was the Nazi fear of “racial pollution” that led to the most common trauma suffered by black Germans: the break-up of families. “Mixed” couples were harassed into separating. When others applied for marriage licences, or when a woman was known to be pregnant or had a baby, the black partner became a target for involuntary sterilisation. In a secret action in 1937, some 400 of the Rhineland children were forcibly sterilised. Other black Germans went into hiding or fled the country to escape sterilisation, while news of friends and relatives who had… Read more »
It’s pure verbal antisemitic attack and charges must be pressed against. Stop being tolerant, because after ignoring this kind of verbal attacks, you give legitimization for physical antisemitic attacks as well.
Maybe short jail time and big fines will stop these people
He did not commit any crime, so there’s nothing to charge him with. It’s a free country and he is entitled to express his opinion, no matter how vile it is.
Harrassment, menacing behavior, disturbing the peace, hate speech, incitement, probably more. So, so many possibilities. This is not a free speech issue and should not be excused.
There is no such charge as “hate speech”. Hate speech is exactly the same as any other kind, and absolutely protected by the first amendment. And you clearly don’t understand the word “incitement”, since nothing he said even remotely resembled it. Harassment would require repeated behavior. Neither menacing behavior nor disturbing the peace, nor any other charge, can be based on the content of his speech, but only on the manner; the test is, suppose he said something positive or neutral (“I love Jews”, or “Baa baa black sheep”) in the same manner, would he be charged? If not, then… Read more »
If it was a Jew following a Black kid saying “you should all still be slaves” and he followed him and ran after the car he got onto to keep saying it, that Jew would have been arrested, no question about it.
I don’t think it’s beneficial to make a big thing of every crazy remark.
If we don’t make an issue of EVERY anti Semitic attack. It NEVER happened. If this guy is sick, send him to a mental hospital.
If he’s supposedly normal, get him arrested!!!!!!
NEVER shove anti semitism under the rug.
Any policeman who arrested him would himself be committing a crime, depriving him of his constitutional rights under color of law.
Can we press charges for his taste in clothes? Just asking..
He followed them and kept harassing and yelling at them. That constitutes the criminal offense, of stalking.
If he kept going after them every time he saw them, then it would be harassment or stalking. Not when it was only once, for a very short time.
Anytime someone follows others to keep berating them as they are trying to move on, that is stalking and/or harassment.
The only time it’s not stalking/harrassment is if the person being insulted stands there and listens or just hears it as they walk by till they are out of range. Once they are being followed, so the perp can continue to try and make them feel unsafe, that is stalking/harrassment.
Just an objective opinion
The man is obviously mentally disturbed and having a Jew from our community antagonize him Will only create tension and God forbid put our children in danger
I once had a guy behind shul in la yelling out expletives. I just went out and asked if he was hungry and he calmed right down. This is no story. The guys schizo.
THIS BLACK MAN WOULD ON HITLER’S LIST!
HE HATED EVERYONE WHO WAS NOT FROM THE WHITE ARYAN RACE!
“He had the right to kill all because [inaudible] rat Jews. The rat Jews.”
He is saying that we white Jews are not the real Jews, black man is the real Jew
His parents B”H lived through the years of the holocaust but were B”H able to escape the Nazis. I believe the term survivors is used out of context here.
For Disorderly Behavior, Disturbing the Peace, for Harrassment and probably for Drug offence as well. And this would happen in any decent neighborhood that was properly policed. Just a ps to those of you who believe the strange comment above vehemently defending his behavior as not only not subject to arrest- but adding that it would be criminal to do so. When in fact, it would be criminal Not to do so.
They can yell back the kkk should of killed him. That would make the police and politicians start a federal investigation. I recall when this westboro church was suppose to come to Boro park at the Shomeri emunah shul to demonstrate. There were lots of police and about 200 hundred yidden. I walked over to the seargent who was white standing with a black policeman and told him if it’s ok to pull out signs we have against blacks. They were terrified. They told the westboro group before they entered Boro park that they can’t guarantee their protection. Of course… Read more »
I am not sure about anyone else but when a dog barks you keep on walking and ignore…