Tomorrow, a “Flood Brooklyn for Gaza” rally is planned to begin at the Brooklyn Museum, located in the borough’s Crown Heights neighborhood. The title is an unambiguous reference to Hamas’s own name for its attack on Israel: “Al-Aqsa Flood.” John Podhoretz writes:
Roughly 20,000 observant Jews live . . . in the neighborhood called Crown Heights. “Jews should definitely avoid the area,” a police source told COLlive.com. . . . Our NYPD is telling the Jews of Brooklyn that they are at risk, and—this is the implicit corollary—they cannot be protected.
Why do you think the marchers are meeting near Crown Heights anyway? This is why. Their purpose isn’t to call for a ceasefire or to advocate for the Palestinian people. Their purpose is to make it known what October 7 made known: there will be no peace or security for any Jew anywhere in the world if they get their way. And rather than announcing that it will send 5,000 cops into the streets to ensure that the mob does not disturb the afternoon walk of a single Jew, the NYPD says: stay inside. Mind the mob.
In my 62 years of life, I have thought every day of the blessing America has been to the Jewish people—a blessing unlike any my people have ever known. And this, the most Jewish city in the world outside of Israel, has been a blessing as well. At this moment, though, the Jews had better hide.
Read more on New York Post: https://nypost.com/2023/10/26/opinion/rather-than-protecting-jews-authorities-are-telling-us-to-hide-again/