We've seen an explosion of antisemitism since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, but the animosity shown in a video captured by author/television host Rabbi Shmuley Boteach as a Muslim family assails him is to the extreme. The video now has more than 11 million views.
The video opens with a girl telling him he can kill himself, but that he can't do anything about her saying that to him because she is "11" and from Canada.
An "11-year-old" Muslim girl with her family walked over to me in Times Square and told me to kill myself because I’m a Jew. I am not making this up. You must watch this. They then had their small child kick me to humiliate me whole their daughter continued to say that I should… pic.twitter.com/36kxfmiCUX
— Rabbi Shmuley (@RabbiShmuley) December 24, 2023
'If you have a problem with free Palestine, kill yourself," the girl said to the rabbi.
"You said I should kill myself," the rabbi asks incredulously.
"Yeah, go ahead. "Yeah, I'm 11 and you can't do anything about it because I live in Canada." the girl responded. The look in her eyes is astonishing.
The Rabbi asked the family what they thought about such behavior and they dismissed it claiming she was "11." I don't know how old she is, but she looks about 20. He asked the older woman, what kind of hatred did she teach her family? She made an ugly face and laughed at him. They refused to apologize or condemn what she said.
Rabbi Shmuley said that a child with them kicked him and the girl also told him to "Go to hell." He decried the incident and said another passerby yelled at him too for being a Jew. He called antisemitism "unbelievably dangerous and deadly in the United States and around the world," saying we must fight this disease."
The video got a lot of reaction online, including from tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who called the assailing of the rabbi "Pathetic."
Pretty sad. And the mother is laughing . Pathetic. https://t.co/N1ewyFKMQm
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) December 24, 2023
What does Boteach have to do with what's going on in Israel? Nothing. He's just a Jewish man who this family thought it was funny to speak abusively to. That isn't about bombing or Israel; it's about being abusive to Jews.
the most friendly faces of the Palestinian cause... https://t.co/X7PWuiG9zd
— Daniel Kapp (@DanielKapp) December 24, 2023
This is in New York City where there have been a lot of wild protests by the anti-Israel crew. On Christmas, the activists even allegedly injured multiple cops and desecrated a nativity scene.
This is where the anti-Israel crew is at this point -- completely out of control. This is what the left has helped to create and even now is stoking during these protests. You can see in the banners and signs they hold "Answer Coalition," "Party of Socialism and Liberation (PSL)" or other leftist organizations. And now it's coming back to bite the Democrats big time.
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