What a terrible burden has just been placed in New York City on the heroes of the pro-Hamas “resistance” against the Jewish state and the cursed Jews, and many non-Jews, who support it. From now on, by law, they will not be able to wear face masks in the New York City subway system. This is likely to inhibit the more “expressive” of them from fully conveying their views, by such things as pulling off an Orthodox Jewish woman’s wig, or landing a few punches on the thin, pale face of a 12-year-old yeshiva student, or — what fun! — tugging on a rabbi’s beard, and then attacking man who had tried to defend one of those victims from the antisemitic tormentors, but was instead knocked to the ground and kicked repeatedly in the head. And a good time was had by all of the ebullient perpetrators, so long as they could wear face masks that would enable then to get away undetected. Now those face masks will no longer be allowed. More on the balaclava brownshirts who will now be forced to go maskless, and consequently are most distressed, can be found here: “Anti-Israel activists protest proposed New York subway mask ban,” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, July 1, 2024:
New York City far-left and anti-Israel activists protested against the proposed subway mask ban on Saturday [June 29].
New York City Revolutionary Youth, Palestine Solidarity Alliance, New York City Resistance Coalition and other groups rallied at Gov. Kathy Hochuls’s [sic] office to demonstrate against the leader weighing a ban on masks in New York State’s subways following a series of antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents by masked activists.
“This mask ban is a clear infringement on the rights of the people which we will not stand idly and watch,” the coalition of activist groups said in a protest advertisement on Thursday.
The mask ban did not come out of the blue. It was a direct response to the pro-Hamas demonstrators who filed into a subway car and proceeded in a threatening manner to demand that “any Zionists” in the car should “raise their hands” and then “get out.” Naturally, no one did, but the clearly antisemitic threat hovered in the air.
The activists marched to the offices of Fox News and the New York Post over their “complicity and support for the mask ban and the genocide of the Palestinian people.”
These nitwits claim — they can’t possibly really believe it — that there is a “genocide” of the nonexistent Palestinian people now going on. We can only respond, wearily, that there were 400,000 Arabs in Gaza in 1967, when Israel took control of the Strip, and 1.2 million when Israel pulled out in 2005; similarly, there were 900,000 Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank in 1967, when Israel took possession, and today there are more than three million. In Israel, there were 160,000 Arabs at the end of the 1948 war; today there are two million. Genocide? What genocide? As for the mask ban, that is a crime prevention measure. There will be fewer hate crimes directed at Jews — their numbers have been skyrocketing since October 7 — if the perpetrators can no longer hide their faces. They have no more right to remaining masked than do people having their photographs taken for their driver’s license or passport.
Writers Against the War on Gaza said on social media on Friday that masks protected people from the spread of viruses like COVID-19 and prevented state surveillance and doxing by pro-Israel activists.
The mask ban makes an exception for masks worn for medical reasons, such as that in force between 2020 and 2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The claim that such masks would no longer be allowed is ludicrous.
The other objection, that the mask ban will create some kind of fearful “state surveillance,” is also preposterous. The only people affected will be those who commit crimes, especially hate crimes, in the subway stations and in subway cars, such as the pro-Hamas demonstrators who have been wearing masks as they threaten bully, and attack Jewish passengers.
“New York has a long history of using mask bans to repress popular struggle. They were first implemented in the 1800s to crush armed uprisings by tenant farmers in the Hudson Valley, and only repealed in 2020 when the city was ravaged by the novel coronavirus,” WAWOG said on Instagram. “When we confront mask bans, we confront legacies of racism, state-sanctioned violence, and Islamophobia. We confront a ruling class that endeavors to divide our movement and sever our solidarity with Gaza. Strike back against the fascist mask ban….
No, there is no such long history of a mask ban being enforced. It may have been on the books, but when, since the early 1800s, was it enforced? Quite the contrary. in the last century the only time mask-wearing has been regulated has been during the COVID-19 pandemic, when masks were not prohibited but required, and not only in subways, but everywhere.
“Popular struggle,” “legacies of racism,” “state-sanctioned violence,” the “ruling class,” and even “Islamophobia”— it’s all there, every cliched phrase and thought, for these pro-Hamas people also turn out to be the vanguard of the revolution, comrades! It’s the New Left, same as the Old Left, quite likely favoring Mao’s Little Red Book for bedtime reading, if not Stalin’s “Short Course.” With a heavy admixture of antisemitism for that authentic, currently fashionable revolutionary taste.
Those who are outraged about no longer being able to wear masks in the NYC subway system, the very masks which until now have allowed them to more easily evade identification after harassing, threatening, and beating Jews on subway cars and on station platforms, are the true fascists, with a simian similarity to Mussolini’s Blackshirts, or even to Hitler’s Stormtroopers, those who had such great fun tormenting Jews on Kristallnacht, as a warmup to the Final Solution, not so long ago, and not so far away.
Spiro says
So the brave traitors are to cowardly to have their faces shown
Let’s see who these fools are
Let’s see if they have the courage of their
convictions
Rufolino says
I’m wondering how this face mask ban can possibly be enforced on underground trains without guards in every carriage & on every platform.
Namer says
Spir, They dot have the courage of their convictions. They just want to openly express their hate for Jews and not face the consequences. Let then attack blacks or Gays and the full force of the law will come for them.
somehistory says
Of course, they protest the ban because now they will be exposed for *who* they are, having already shown *what* they are….terrorists. If they don’t wish to be caught on camera with full face showing, fewer will participate in the mob actions.
Criminals have long used masks when committing their crimes. In the past, stage coach robbers, bank and train robbers wore masks, but would have not protested a ban on masks for fear of revealing that they were the ones committing the crimes.
How criminals have become emboldened by the lack of punishment meted out to them.
some other crime stories in the news today
CNN
“176 gravestones at 2 Jewish cemeteries vandalized, FBI investigating”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/176-gravestones-at-2-jewish-cemeteries-vandalized-fbi-investigating/ar-BB1piBkt?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=c68561b374ee4a69be4f51db5e6c545e&ei=38
Someone beheaded a statue representing Jesus in NYC.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/new-york-city-suspect-destroys-jesus-statue-in-early-morning-rampage-video/vi-BB1piCZi?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=2b642c516c56404da9fd7655f9ca6988&ei=35
FYI says
I guess antifa, those Leftard Strormtroopers won’t like that either.
funny how they turn up at pro-child groomng events.
Ya don’t think they might me Pedos?
somehistory says
When a human is willing to murder another and another, mass-murder, gloat over the murders, nothing is out of bounds for them. Children are easy victims to grab and control; to use for satisfying all manner of lusts.
FYI says
+1
somehistory says
TY
Ray Jarman says
I asked a teller at a local bank when I went to cash a check how he felt when he witnessed a person, especially a male, walk into the facility wearing a mask to which he responded, “I have to take breaks much more often because I am on pins and needles wondering if we were going to be robbed and harmed.” At this same bank, there was an attempted robbery which was foiled. There were others with whom I discussed the issue at the time like a friend who works at the checkout stand in a Safeway and the person who takes my request for take away pizza said that they were much more exhausted at the end of the day. Listening to these friends, I cannot imagine how desperate the Jewish people who have to employee the subway system in large cities like NYC with muslims wearing keffiyehs feel every day.
somehistory says
As you are likely aware, Ray, stress kills. I’m fairly sure that a lot of illness for these people are directly related to the threats from the terrorist-supporters, and their terrorist friends.
Years ago, a doctor told me to begin wearing a hat as I am allergic to light, esp from the sun. But when I went to get my driver’s license renewed, the guy behind the counter told me I had to remove my hat for a photo…it was a law….because it might obscure some part of my features necessary to identify me. (the top of my head)
Evidently, mozlum women in some places are allowed to keep their heads completely concealed…law or not.
The covid stuff ruled over by quack fauci, made it easier for the face masks to proliferate and my daughter and I had many discussions about crimes being committed so easily because of that mandate.
she works in different areas of customer service and I worry about her safety.
Some people still wear masks as if they actually believe that a piece of cloth will prevent viruses from spreading. Or….Are they criminals?
Spiro says
The CDC mask (can’t spell Fauci mask) is not the same as a ski mask
The wears intent is the difference some one wearing a full face mask committing crime is the problem i
somehistory says
Someone wearing any mask over their nose, mouth and chin is concealing enough of their identity to commit a crime without fear that the victim will recognize them later.
Unless the victim takes particular notice of the masked person’s eyes, they aren’t likely to be able to pick them out of lineup even if they are only wearing the masks many wore for months on end to enter stores, etc.
Just take a look back at news video of people on the street from the middle of the ‘pandemic’….faces all pass in a blur.
Keith O says
I reckon these brave individuals should be allowed to wear their masks, it will simply make it easier to identify the turds before they start causing shit, then it will also be much easier to identify them afterwards by the large number of black eyes, swollen faces and swollen lips.
Walter Sieruk says
Those pro Hamas protesters must be so cowardly that they need to hide their faces from public view.
Likewise, back in the year 2017 on a Saturday during the month of June there was an actforamerica.org rally , I was part of, at the State Capital of Pennsylvania which was a pro-US Constitution and stop the advancement of Sharia law in America. The police kept a a barrier of a police neutral zone between the patriots.
Those pro- Islam anti- US Constitution opponents who are part of the Red-Green alliance. the point being all those Marxist/ Islamic protesters hid their behind masks ,just like this year in which those pro-Hamas protesters in the subway hide they faces from public view behind masks This alone shows that something is wrong with their cause.
In addition ,the patriots of Act for America rally were holding Americans flags, By contrast the Red /Green alliance enemy had no American flags but they held up two of old Soviet flags from the former Communist Russia . This is also very revealing about them
Taffy says
wonder if those Palestinian Keffiyehs would stop an ice pick to the face. That’s exactly what they would get if I were confronted on the subway in a threading manner or if they assaulted a Jewish person who was minding their own business.
Unfortunately, these MahmoudS and Mohammed’s are ubiquitous in NYC, particularly In the healthcare system Where they can do much damage.. A while back, there was a Medical student at the Cleveland clinic that posted on social media how she would give Jewish patients the wrong medication. Unfortunately, she is less than the tip of the iceberg because the Muslim nurses, orderlies, technicians, Food, service, workers, etc., all wait for the chance To sabotage a Jewish patient’s Well-being while a patient at the hospital.
Noah Andeark says
It’s (p)islam. Being practiced in the manner of the pedophile false prophet, and pig-faced dog, mohammed, as he shat in the terror guide the koran.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Why don’t they simply claim that they’re protecting themselves from Covid-24?
OLD GUY says
I’ll bet that if you flip this around and pro Israel supporters wear face masks and beat the pro palestinaians ass they would be against face masks. Oh wait they are protestors so they are a protected class.