This WNBC broadcast is about Orthodox Jews in broad-brimmed Borsalino hats “beating” a Palestinian couple on the street of Brooklyn.
Although reports say that the victims had cuts and bruises on their faces, we do not see the actual “beating,” for whatever reason.
Reporter Marc Santia immediately turns to the executive director of the New York Chapter of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Afaf Nasher, for comment. Nasher says:
Another unfortunate incident, unfortunately in a sequence of incidents because we have all seen a sharp increase in Islamophobia.
But this is a mischaracterization. There are almost no examples of Jews attacking Muslims. It is also important to keep in mind that CAIR has nothing to do with this story. It knows nothing about it, and has no information or contacts, nothing at all.
In 2023, we saw over 8,000 incidents and complaints come in of some sort of bias or a hate crime, and that is a record-breaking number.
It is hard to accept the idea that this incident is representative of the American Muslim experience. And CAIR’s claim of over 8,000 complaints is based on its latest civil rights report, “Fatal: The Resurgence of Anti-Muslim Hate.” CAIR’s report does not include 8,000 complaints. That would be unwieldy. But of those incidents they do include, many took place in previous years, including 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
In other words, the 8,000 examples from 2023 are not enough for CAIR to make their point that “Israeli violence” is causing “rampant Islamophobia.” Afaf Nasher’s claim that the Jews attacking Palestinians on the streets of Brooklyn is part of a pattern is not supported by their report. In fact, there are very few physical assaults in CAIR’s report. And, those assaults included in CAIR’s “Fatal” report are all isolated incidents, not part of a “sequence of incidents.” Muslims in America are not being attacked by any movements, groups, or internationally financed campaigns. CAIR’s own data is proof of this.
However, CAIR very much wants to give the impression that “Israeli violence” is causing people to attack Muslims. Yet the only unifying feature of the assaults on Muslims in CAIR’s report is opposition to public support for Hamas in this country.
WNBC supports the claim that there is a rise in anti-Muslim hate crime. They give a reference to the NYPD, which says that anti-Muslims incidents have doubled since this same time last year. But how many of those incidents recorded by the NYPD involve Jews attacking Muslims? Again, the station does not include a spokesperson from the police to give details on their data, such as what exactly constitutes a hate crime.
CAIR has freely admitted that it uses its own definition of a hate crime, which is different from the ones that local law enforcement or even the FBI use. The NYPD defines a Hate Crime/Bias Incident as:
A bias incident is any offense or unlawful act that is motivated in whole or substantial part by a person’s, a group’s or a place’s identification with a particular race, color, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, ancestry, national origin, or sexual orientation (including gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender) as determined by the commanding officer of the Hate Crime Task Force.
The FBI beaks down bias/hate crime into categories such as destruction/damage/vandalism, intimidation, aggravated or simple assault. According to the FBI:
Hate itself is not a crime—and the FBI is mindful of protecting freedom of speech and other civil liberties.
But according to CAIR, “hate” is a crime. In an example from Florida, CAIR considers public rudeness to be a crime.
CAIR’s executive director in Minnesota has said that mental illness is not an excuse during the commission of a crime against Muslims. CAIR’s deputy executive director has said the same thing. And the CAIR Connecticut chapter was all knives out for the clearly insane Andrey Desmond.
This news segment from WNBC has similarities to another NBC broadcast out of Washington state, when KING5 reported on a Muslim named Riaz Khan, saying he was “targeted” because of his ethnicity and political affiliation. However, there was no evidence of the attack: no witnesses, no security camera footage, and no evidence of injury to Khan, and when police responded to his call, he declined medical attention.
In spite of the lack of evidence for this supposed attack, the NBC affiliate included a statement from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which had nothing to do with any of it.
Another network affiliate, CBS’s KIRO, covered the same story without mentioning CAIR, but instead cited the Washington State Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC), which said that anti-Muslim incidents had nearly doubled since last year. But is a story with no evidence at all really the best occasion for a discussion of the statistics on anti-Muslim incidents? Does the WASPC’s data actually include any such dubious examples as Riaz Khan’s, an incident without any evidence? Or is the station simply trying to justify this political campaign stunt as an example of a hate crime?
There is a nationwide and industry-wide problem with TV stations putting CAIR on broadcasts without good reason, allowing its representatives simply to spread misinformation. Network affiliates from coast to coast will include CAIR on subjects ranging from the George Floyd riots to girls’ softball games in Iowa. In this case, WNBC has helped CAIR promote the idea that Jews are responsible for CAIR’s supposed increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes.
Nera says
Constant projection while simultaneously wanting to be the object of their hateful obsession, actually wanting to embody their place in the world. No wonder they’re recognised as kindred by the transes.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yup!
Hudson says
Always the victims, that never own up to their crap.
Troybeam says
No picture, no police report always expected to be taken at their own words without evidence. Stiring up trouble once again.
Pray Hard says
Lies, damned lies and statistics.
Mark Twain
Pray Hard says
Translated: We moslems attacked some Jews.
gravenimage says
Most likely so…
bagsgroove says
Nobody loves the muslims.
somehistory says
If Jews were attacking mozlums in NYC, it would be national news. It would be everywhere and on some loops.
The bully hits the smaller person, the smaller one jabs back and the bully cries foul…”he hit me.”
If there are “bruises,” it’s possible another mozlum put them there. If there are bruises, it’s possible they were delivered in self-defense by whomever the mozlum was attacking.
How many bruises has this mozlum’s husband put on her face, neck, chest, arms and elsewhere?
mozlums are psychopaths and everything has to be about **Them.** (and “THEM” is an excellent movie.)
Ray Jarman says
+1 Somehistory,
You are so correct about the number of false claims and I really agree with your assessment of the movie, “Them.” I haven’t thought of that movie since I was a kid.
somehistory says
Thank you very much, Ray.
As for the movie, I’m thinking of making an attempt to find it on Tubi and watching …again.
Larry Estavan says
“Gentlemen, science is agreed that if something is not done, and done quickly, Man as the dominant species of life on Earth will be extinct . . . within a year.”
somehistory says
https://tubitv.com/movies/100028504/them
Larry Estavan says
Sam Browne belt
“General Sir Samuel James Browne was a 19th-century British Indian Army officer who lost his left arm to a sword cut during the Sepoy Rebellion [Muslims]; the lack of a left hand to steady his scabbard made it difficult for him to draw his sword ” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Browne_belt
Actor James Whitmore wears a Sam Brown belt in the early part of the movie.
Ray Jarman says
“Hate itself is not a crime—and the FBI is mindful of protecting freedom of speech and other civil liberties.” At the UN and particularly in Scotland, hate is a sin and should be considered punishable at least if it is towards the religion of hate for everyone not of its ilk. The statement, “But according to CAIR, “hate” is a crime. In an example from Florida, CAIR considers public rudeness to be a crime.” is a perfect example of their complete disregard of the law. If someone pushes me aside on the sidewalk or cuts me off in traffic, I like most tend to respond with a simple middle finger salute and if CAIR had its way, that would be a hate crime against someone. In Mathew 7:12, we are urged to “treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” If only this was the mindset for everyone, the world would certainly be the better for it.
Larry Estavan says
I searched the internet for “Jews attacking Muslims”, or “Jews attacking Palestinians” and found the overwhelming majority of results were about Muslims attacking Jews.
The exception was the Zaibak’s who attacked two men ten years their junior after they shouted “Free Palestine”. The Zaibak brothers challenged/intimidated the other two and the fight ensued. – https://www.amny.com/news/brooklyn-hate-crime-israel-hamas-arrest-october-20-2023/
But, that is about it, with there being many more examples of Muslims attacking Jews, and people, in general.
And, Orthodox Jews attacking women on the streets of Brooklyn is simply unheard-of.
gravenimage says
+1
Larry Estavan says
“Potential bias incidents investigated by the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force continued to rise in August, with the squad taking on 30 more cases than last August (57 vs. 27), 17 of which are anti-Muslim (17 vs. 0) in motivation. Year to date, investigators are probing 106 additional cases compared to 2023 (438 vs. 332), largely fueled by this year’s surge in anti-Jewish incidents.”
In a table titled “Hate Crimes Statistics: August 2024
(Representing August 1 – August 31 for calendar years 2024 and 2023)” hate/bias incidents against Muslims went from zero in 2023 to 17 in 2024.
However, the NYPD includes this – “Note: Statistics above are subject to change upon investigation, as active possible bias cases June be reclassified to non-bias cases and removed from counted data.”
– https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p0527/nypd-citywide-crime-statistics-august-2024
Spiro says
There’s no need for evidence or witnesses
their story will be taken at face value with no push back from tbe useful idiots in the msm
Spiro says
There’s no need for evidence or witnesses
their story will be taken at face value with no push back from tbe useful idiots in the msm
gravenimage says
Hamas-Linked CAIR Says Jews Attacking People in Brooklyn is Part of a Pattern
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The only pattern here is Muslim thugs lying abiyt Jews. This is all projection–it is Muslims so often attacking Jews.
terry says
I have no support for criminal terrorist, whether it be at the hands of Globalist, Marxism, or Islam! These are all violently supported by hook, crook, and bayonets, and hordes of mad zombie-like criminals! These powers and forces delight in violence, using theft, rape, murder, and destructions to support their criminally syndicated rulers, in all manner of shady and crooked enterprises! Behind all trafficking, drug dealing, and knock off goods, the selling of organs, and God only knows what all else, these rulers empowering Globalism, Marxism, and Islam are collusive in Crime Syndication-like barbarity under a Feudal type arrangement! They even profit killing each other! Pure Evil embodied! I cannot support such, and pray against it.