New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has come under fire for singling out the Hasidic Jewish community after he personally oversaw the dispersal of hundreds of mourners gathered at the funeral of a rabbi who died from COVID-19. Period.”My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed. “Something absolutely unacceptable happened in Williamsburg tonite (sic): a large funeral gathering in the middle of this pandemic. Something absolutely unacceptable happened in Williamsburg tonite: a large funeral gathering in the middle of this pandemic. “Did the Mayor of NYC really just single out one specific ethnic community (a community that has been the target of increasing hate crimes in HIS city) as being noncompliant??

Source: National Post April 29, 2020 17:03 UTC