A young Jewish man was stabbed early Saturday morning near the Chabad movement’s headquarters in New York City by a man yelling “Free Palestine,” according to a local rabbi who said he knows the victim, as well as CCTV footage of the incident published online.
Yaacov Behrman tweeted that during Shabbat, the young male attacker asked the man: “Do you want to die?” He then stabbed him.
The victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, Behrman said.
I’m just saying this is not mass migration we’re talking about in terms of the population as a whole. I think we will continue to see population parity between the entire Jewish population in Israel and New York City for quite some time. In fact, New York City’s Jewish population is slightly higher. 7.5 million vs. 7.2 million for all of Israel.
I only meant to draw your attention to the fact that antisemitism is driving a growing portion of Jewish migration (largely to Israel). France, for example, has seen 7% of the Jews leave in the past decade alone (over 15% since 1990 - from 530k-446k).
This is not a trend seen in other groups in France - just Jews.
Sure, I won’t argue that. I think we’re making two different points, to be honest.
I don’t disagree with you at all. Just adding some context about how seriously antisemitism is impacting Jews in the West.