00:00This time, I would like to acknowledge our senior administration here with me on stage,
00:05Fred Kreisman, the commissioner of CAU.
00:08And just really wanted to remind all of you that I'm on your level.
00:15I am not here to be deified.
00:19I'm not here to be treated as though there's a level of a royalty that's associated with being the mayor of New York.
00:27I want you to know that your pain, I feel your pain.
00:32Folks, I said this over and over again.
00:34You really need to understand that this is not about a piece of property in the Middle East.
00:41This is not about Israel.
00:43This is about Jewish people.
00:46And they can use whatever terms they want.
00:48They can sugarcoat it all they want.
00:50But someone must be honest, because it wasn't Israel when you were put in the Roman quarters in Rome and couldn't come out at night.
01:03It wasn't Israel when you had to leave Spain at a particular time.
01:08It wasn't Israel when Moses had to leave.
01:12It wasn't Israel when the war happened and the Holocaust happened.
01:17Let's not allow people to make us believe that this is about just a location on a map.
01:26This is about the comfortability that people have with hating Jews across the globe.
01:32I want you to know that there are those of us in this city that feel your pain and know what you are going through at this moment.
01:49But do not live in fear.
01:50Do not stop outside your synagogue and determine if you're going to go in or not.
01:59Do not contemplate before you enter the subway system that you're going to take off your yarmulke.
02:05Do not pause and go into your Shiva and say you're not going to wear your Star of David.
02:11If we live in fear, they won.
02:13We cannot live in fear.
02:16We cannot live in fear.
02:43We cannot live in fear.
02:47We cannot live in fear.
02:49We cannot live in fear.
02:50Amen.
03:20Amen.
03:50Amen.
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