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Jewish man attacked in lower Manhattan Duane Reade: police

9Dec

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Jewish man attacked in lower Manhattan Duane Reade: police

A Jewish man was attacked inside a lower Manhattan Duane Reade store when an innocent bumping erupted into a full-blown hate crime, police said Saturday. The Tuesday morning beating comes as antisemetic incidents across the city have skyrocketed while the ongoing Israeli-Hamas conflict in Gaza continues. The 66-year-old victim was leaving the Duane Reade on John St. near Broadway about 9:30 a.m. when he accidentally bumped into a 40-year-old man in a purple and black North Face jacket. “F—— Jew!” the outraged stranger said as he turned around and punched the victim in the head, cops said. The suspect was last seen wearing a purple and black North Face jacket, a yellow polo shirt and dark pants. (DCPI) The victim suffered a head injury in the split-second attack but refused medical attenti...

Should People Have the Right to Say Awful Things Without Facing Legal Consequences?

26Nov

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Should People Have the Right to Say Awful Things Without Facing Legal Consequences?

Terrible times breed terrible words, and words have consequences—especially when what you say can be recorded and broadcast. Yet society cannot agree, perhaps more so now, on which views are acceptable and what the consequences should be for a person expressing them.Last week, Stuart Seldowitz, a former State Department official, was arrested and charged with a hate crime after videos of him delivering a series of bigoted rants against Mohamed Hussein, a twenty-four-year-old Manhattan street-cart vender, went viral. In these, Seldowitz called Hussein a terrorist, insulted his Muslim faith, and said, with a hysterical crack in his voice, “If we killed four thousand Palestinian children, you know what—it wasn’t enough.” Hussein, for his part, repeatedly asked Seldowitz to leave him alone.Th...

DOJ Launches Hate Crime Probe Into Killing Of Muslim Boy

16Oct

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DOJ Launches Hate Crime Probe Into Killing Of Muslim Boy

The Justice Department has launched a hate crime investigation into the brutal killing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy and the serious wounding of his mother in Illinois over the weekend.Local police arrested a white man who was the Muslim family’s landlord on murder and hate crime charges related to the stabbing of Wadea Al-Fayoume and his 32-year-old mother, Hanaan Shahin, in their home in the Chicago suburb of Plainfield on Saturday.The landlord, 71-year-old Joseph Czuba, is accused of stabbing Wadea 26 times. Czuba also allegedly stabbed Shahin over a dozen times, and officials have said that she is in serious condition but expected to survive.Text messages Shahin reportedly sent from the hospital to her son’s father described Czuba as having shouted, “You Muslims must die!” ...

`The Laramie Project’ stages a special reading in Wyoming on the 25th anniversary of Shepard murder

12Oct

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`The Laramie Project’ stages a special reading in Wyoming on the 25th anniversary of Shepard murder

NEW YORK -- It has been 25 years since the body of Matthew Shepard was discovered in Laramie, Wyoming. The gay college student had been tied to a fence post, tortured and left to die.The murder drew national attention to violence against gay people, and attracted the interest of theater director Moisés Kaufman, who turned the horror into art with “The Laramie Project.”This 25th anniversary has triggered deep sadness for Kaufman, founder and artistic director of the New York-based Tectonic Theater Project. He wonders about all the things Shepard could have become.“Every year around this time, it’s painful to remember, but this one has hit particularly hard,” Kaufman tells the AP. After Shepard's 1998 killing, Kaufman and members of Tectonic traveled to Laramie and wrote the play based on m...

9Aug

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Voguing as Vigil for O’Shae Sibley

On a recent evening, hundreds of people converged at the northeast corner of Coney Island Avenue and Avenue P, in Midwood, Brooklyn, to remember O’Shae Sibley, a dancer who had been stabbed to death at that spot a few days earlier. They shouted, “Say his name!,” and then said his name over and over, in different ways, sometimes chanting its four syllables, sometimes almost singing. “O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o’Shae! O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o’Shae!” The sound echoed off the glass front of the apartment building across the street and got louder as more people showed up. The name filled the intersection, ringing with unity and power, but you could hear the keening of absolute bereavement underneath.Sibley and a few friends—dancers, like him, who specialized in the drag-queen-influenced, pose-striking dance st...