By JPOST.COM STAFF
11/14/2011 10:23
11/14/2011 10:23
Residents and public officials from a Brooklyn neighborhood in which cars were burned and swastikas spray painted earlier in the week to the streets Sunday, marching against hatred and intolerance, The New York Times reported.
Marchers carried at least one Israeli flag and expressed shock that the incident took place in their neighborhood, which is home to a number of Holocaust survivors. Protesters from Occupy Wall Street also joined the march, according to the Times.
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One marcher, New York State Senator Eric Adams said that the aggression of the hate crime that took place in the neighborhood should be matched "with the same amount of unity that we will not tolerate this and we will not accept this," the Times reported. Read the rest on: The Jerusalem Post
Marchers carried at least one Israeli flag and expressed shock that the incident took place in their neighborhood, which is home to a number of Holocaust survivors. Protesters from Occupy Wall Street also joined the march, according to the Times.
RELATED:
Opinion: An ominous reckoning
'Occupy Wall Street' occupied by anti-Semitism charge
One marcher, New York State Senator Eric Adams said that the aggression of the hate crime that took place in the neighborhood should be matched "with the same amount of unity that we will not tolerate this and we will not accept this," the Times reported. Read the rest on: The Jerusalem Post
Sad that there is still these types of Hate crimes being committed in what should be a more informed and educated society.
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