Target Map of Boston’s Jews is Just the Beginnin
Dear Editor:
The Jewish Voice sounded an alarm which should serve as a screaming wake up call, “Invitation to Violence: Anti-Israel Group’s Map Puts ‘Target’ on Boston Jews”, Pesach Benson, United with Israel.
The Boston area “Mapping Project” is put together by the Boycott, intersectional, anti-Israel mob. ”The map includes Jewish and Israeli institutions…Israel’s Consulate, Israeli-American Council, Synagogue Council of Mass., Harvard Center for Jewish Studies, …two Jewish newspapers, and more. Staffers at the Jewish organizations are often identified by name…“
“It is tapping into millennia-old antisemitic tropes about nefarious Jewish wealth, control, conspiracy, media connections and political string-pulling…Mapping Project’s “underlying messages are clear: Jews are responsible for the ills of our community and if you maintain your relationship with Jewish organizations, you will share that responsibility.” Imagine if someone put out a target map of Blacks or Hispanics or Muslims? Mainstream media would be up in arms but when it’s Jewish institutions…I hear the usual deafening silence.
Boston has the greatest intensity of liberal Jews who support every “cause”, who help everyone but that doesn’t stop them from being targeted. First a map of where we live, our organizations, the gathering of names. What comes next? Wearing a Star of David on our lapels? This is only the latest attempt to wipe out Jewish participation in civil life, to erase and rewrite us out of history, to label us as ‘oppressors.’ To openly target Jews, without fear of any consequences, is the direct result of American Jewish organizations’ failure to loudly demand, not beg, demand, our Civil Rights, or insist the IHRA’s definition of antisemitism be in place everywhere. It is the result of Jews defensive, apologetic posturing instead of proactively demanding respect for our rights as Jews.
This is 1930’s Germany, here in Boston, courtesy of the far left “intersectional” mob, with more to come. Where has our collective chutzpah gone? I keep mine intact as a loud, proud Jew. How many more of us need to be targeted and killed for us to rise up, and throw out our stale Jewish “leaders” who have forgotten how to stand up for our Jewish
Civil Rights.
Sincerely
Ginette Weiner
Scottsdale, AZ
New NY Gun Laws Won’t Help
Dear Editor:
All this talk about new gun laws, going on in Washington and the new laws signed by Governor Hochul in New York State, will do nothing to stem the out-of-control gun violence. Yes, it’s a good idea that 18-year-old kids do not get to buy guns anymore. Limiting the amount of rounds guns hold is also a good idea, and stricter red flag laws trying to stop the mentally ill from purchasing guns. All sound good but this will not stem the growing murders in our City Streets.
Almost all of the shooting you read about every day are done by criminals with long arrest records who have ILLEGAL AND UNLICENSED GUNS. Many are members of street gangs who do not care if one of their stray bullets shoots a 11-year-old schoolgirl or a 73-year-old Grandmother on her way back with groceries. They have no fear of going out in the streets or on the subways with loaded guns in their back pockets. if they get caught, they get an appearance ticket go to before a judge months later. There is no bail set, so in a day or two, they buy another gun and they are out there again. Repeat offenders with 14 arrests have been let out into our streets over and over to commit more violence or murder.
Most of this was brought on by our past Mayor Di Blasio who made it obvious how he detested our Police Department. He de-funded 1 billion dollars from the NYPD and sided with all the violent anti police protesters. Next our disgraced ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo decided to enact “Bail Reform”, thus allowing violent, repeat criminals to be released with no bail out in our streets to do more violence. Unless the ultra-liberal judges and Progressive District Attorneys are ordered by our Governor to start locking up these criminals and start setting bail that is appropriate for the crimes they are being committed, nothing will change.
No gun law passed will stop these street thugs from getting illegal guns and continuing the reign of terror that we are all living through. Unless they know they are going to pay a price and go to jail, they have no fear and we will all remain living in fear.
Sincerely,
Lisa Green
Midwood
Brooklyn, New York
Gun Control & Baseball
Dear Editor:
As a long time baseball fan, I have to congratulate Florida governor, Ron DeSantis for his veto of a $35 million subsidy for the Tampa Bay Rays because of the team’s advocacy for gun control. The people who would benefit from this taxpayer giveaway would be the club owners and their million dollar a year players. Why should ordinary people, who many not even be baseball fans, finance this operation that is a private business that employs only about 50 workers, the ballplayers? Why not subsidize small businesses to come to the state and give them a needed helping hand. They employ middle income people.
DeSantis is the kind of governor we need here in New York. he is a no-nonsense kind of guy, a veteran who served in Afghanistan and a hard line conservative who knows the value of a buck. Enough subsidizing ball teams for their overpriced stadiums and overpriced tickets. Good for him.
Sincerely
Emil Samson
Queens, NY
The MSM’s Connection to the DNC
Dear Editor:
The planned killing of a sitting Supreme Court Justice cannot go unnoticed by the public, whether Democrat or Republican. I’m a lifelong Democrat but no more. After waiting for Biden to condemn this horror, watching CNN and MSNBC ignore this story, says it all. The main stream media is in cahoots with the leaders of the party I’ve supported since voting age. I’m disgusted at their lack of values regarding violence and criminals. Here in Brooklyn there are criminals walking our streets daily, looking for victims. Because they are of the minority, local cops ignore them, letting them get away with robbing our local candy store and grocery. The area I live in has to remain in constant fear of break-ins with the police informing us their hands are tied and they refuse to compromise their jobs and pensions by arresting a juvenile black kid and having the family’s lawyer charge the police officer with “violence against a minority,” forcing an investigation, possible trial and all that goes with that. Better for them to retire, quit, go back to school and become attorneys or teachers. Safer and better hours.
Sincerely
Henry Morganthal
Brooklyn, NY
