NYC MAYOR ADAMS SLAMS HATE AFTER EMBASSY SHOOTING

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22/5/2025

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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Fabian Levy, and I'm the deputy mayor for communications for the city of New York.

00:06Thank you so much, Dean Levy.

00:11This city has no room for hate, and this country cannot have room for hate.

00:19As mayor of the largest Jewish community outside of Israel, this isn't a philosophical discussion for me.

00:26It's a level of clarity that we must all express.

00:30The Jewish community feels, believes, and are under attack when you look at the numbers.

00:36You can't be 10% of the city and have over 60% of the hate crimes.

00:44We will not be silent because we cannot be silent.

00:46And watch our brothers and sisters of any group in general,

00:50but specifically our Jewish brothers and sisters under attack in our country.

00:54We must call this hate, wherever we see it, without fear, without determination.

01:00And that is how we turn the tide.

01:04To have Yaren and Sarah, two employees of the Israeli embassy,

01:11to be assassinated in public view, is something that will leave a scar,

01:17not only on Jewish citizens of this city and country, but for all of us of good will.

01:27Let's call this what it is, a depraved act of terrorism.

01:32Thankfully, the NYPD has said that there is no known connection to New York.

01:39And the person responsible was not known to us.

01:43But in response, NYPD is surging counterterrorism officers and

01:48critical response commands out of an overabundance of caution.

01:53Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

02:00I called the mayor and called Rabbi Potashnik early this morning.

02:06As soon as I heard about what had happened.

02:09Because it is very important that we understand that this is not just a problem for

02:16one community, it's a problem for all of us if we don't stand together when any one of us is attacked.

02:26We may not agree on politics, but we must agree that we will not let hate and violence take anyone.

02:37The fact is, you cannot be a civil rights activist or leader if you're only for your own civil rights.

02:44You cannot be a faith leader if you only stand up for people in your own faith.

02:50So I would hope that people that see us stand together know we not only stand together for a press conference,

02:56we will defend each other's places of worship, education, and each other's right to peaceful protest, whatever we want.

03:05But you give people that peacefully protest a bad name when you turn naked, raw hate vigilantism

03:13and try to cover it that you're standing for a cause other than your own erosion of morality.

03:20When we are seeing people chanting in the streets of New York in U.S. campuses and are calling for intifada,

03:34intifada, globalizing the intifada and are chanting and calling for the murder of Jews wherever they are,

03:43this is not just a problem of Israel or the Jewish people. This is a global problem of violent people

03:55who are trying to destroy the Western world.

03:58The most important thing is we are standing together and we are going to repeat all the time

04:07that we are going to be always united against hate.

04:10We say in our tradition that life and death are in the hands of the tongue.

04:21And what we have found over the years that what may start in the mouth of the tongue descends to

04:26the heart and ultimately to the hands. We also have Josh Kramer from the AJC.

04:34AJC is exactly where the horrendous attack last night happened in Washington, D.C.

04:40Our worst fears have been realized. Jewish communities from D.C. to Tel Aviv to Paris

04:48and here in New York are mourning this devastating murder outside the AJC Young Diplomat's reception

04:54at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.

04:59Yaron Lashinsky was a member of the political department at the Embassy of Israel and focused on

05:05Middle East issues. He was also a friend, reserved, but always had a smile on his face.

05:12He was a welcoming presence. He attended numerous AJC events throughout his time in Washington

05:18and at last night's event he shared how excited he was to be going back home to spend Shavuot with his

05:23family in Israel. It was also reported that he had recently purchased an engagement ring

05:32that he planned to give to Sarah when they travel to Israel in the coming days.

05:37Everyone needs to understand that this is what globalized the Intifada looks like.

05:43We cannot separate the violence from the dangerous rhetoric that fuels hate and conspiracies against

05:48Jews. What happened to this young couple leaving a Jewish event last night was anti-Semitism. Full stop.

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