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Following rash of anti-Semitic attacks in Brooklyn, NYPD installs 100 CCTV cameras

Following the upsurge of anti-Semitic crimes in numerous Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn, the NYPD will instal 100 new security cameras in Brooklyn’s Jewish neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park.

By Anthony M. DeStefano

 

The NYPD will install 100 new security cameras in Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park, Brooklyn, areas with large Jewish populations, in an effort to deter anti-Semitic crimes, officials announced Friday.

In a statement, Mayor Bill de Blasio said that police would begin surveying work immediately to identify the best locations for the installations and added that the first 30 cameras are expected to be in place by March. Continue Reading »

New Zealand Muslim cleric blames Christchurch massacre on Mossad

New Zealand Jewish Council spokesperson said the Jewish community was utterly outraged after the local mosque leader in Christchurch accused the “Mossad” and “Zionist business” of funding the white supremacist attacker on their two mosques.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

New Zealand’s Jewish community is outraged after a prominent mosque leader blamed the Israeli Mossad agency for being behind the terror attack on two mosques in the city of Christchurch, the Newshub news website reports.

The incident took place on Saturday during a rally organized by a group called Love Aotearoa Hate Racism in Auckland’s Aotea Square.

Canterbury Mosque and inset, standing in the dock of the Christchurch District Court, Brenton Tarrant, is being charged with murder in relation to the deadly mosque attacks.

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