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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is being called out for his patently phony “wokeness” after offering 500,000 free Halal meals to the city’s Muslims during Ramadan.
Last week’s meal offer came ahead of de Blasio taking a much harsher tone this week with the city’s Jewish community, actually threatening to send police to round them up after attending a funeral for a rabbi in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood who reportedly died from coronavirus.
According to CNN, the mayor and his administration appear to be making an extra effort to accommodate Muslims during their holy month of Ramadan:
The coronavirus pandemic has turned life upside down for many New Yorkers, including those who wish to safely practice their faiths.
Muslims, who began the holy month of Ramadan on Thursday, are no exception. The holy month involving fasting from sunup to sundown, charity and prayer is typically celebrated as a community. But due to social distancing, that’s not possible this year.
To help families celebrate, especially those who’ve lost income due to shutdowns, New York City has announced plans to serve more than 500,000 halal meals to Muslims during Ramadan.
“One of Ramadan’s most noble callings is to feed the hungry,” de Blasio said during a press conference April 23. “It’s a crucial part of how the holiday is celebrated, to remember to be there for those in need, and that is now harder than ever.
“No New Yorker will go hungry,” de Blasio promised. “Your city will provide.”
According to the mayor’s office, some 400,000 meals will be distributed at 32 so-called “Grab and Go” sites across all five boroughs where Muslim populations are large. Another 100,000 meals will be made available through soup kitchens, community organizations, and food pantries.
And to be fair, Kosher meals are also being made available.
But certainly, there is a noticeable difference in tone from the mayor and his office this week when it came to incidents involving Jews and Muslims.
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 29, 2020
Something absolutely unacceptable happened in Williamsburg tonite: a large funeral gathering in the middle of this pandemic. When I heard, I went there myself to ensure the crowd was dispersed. And what I saw WILL NOT be tolerated so long as we are fighting the Coronavirus
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) April 29, 2020
My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed. I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups. This is about stopping this disease and saving lives. Period.
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) April 29, 2020
“Something absolutely unacceptable happened in Williamsburg tonite: a large funeral gathering in the middle of this pandemic. When I heard, I went there myself to ensure the crowd was dispersed. And what I saw WILL NOT be tolerated so long as we are fighting the Coronavirus,” de Blasio tweeted in response to the gathering of Jewish faithful for the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Mertz.
Freddi Goldstein, de Blasio’s press secretary, tweeted pictures of the funeral observance and noted that her boss was “on the scene” with the NYPD and was “breaking this up.”
I empathisize with the desire to mourn those we’ve lost, but this is absolutely unacceptable. The Mayor is on the scene and the NYPD is breaking this up. https://t.co/xBvcICVRSX
— Freddi Goldstein (@FreddiGoldstein) April 29, 2020
In another tweet, de Blasio made clear he wouldn’t ‘tolerate’ any more of these violations of his orders from the Jewish community.
We have lost so many these last two months + I understand the instinct to gather to mourn. But large gatherings will only lead to more deaths + more families in mourning. We will not allow this. I have instructed the NYPD to have one standard for this whole city: zero tolerance.
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) April 29, 2020
The mayor’s hard tone with Jews did not go over well.
When are American Jews going to wake up and quit blindly voting Democrat, and helping morons like DeBlasio get into public office? Oh, and this goes for the rest of you too, that feel compelled to promote more of this anti-American, pandering to Muslims bullshit. pic.twitter.com/4J4CNqjlWz
— Joey (@JoeyTriEnergy) April 29, 2020
👌 Literally Hitler
— Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death 🕵️♂️ (@EricInfoTech) April 29, 2020
Nazi
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) April 29, 2020
DeBlasio last night: pic.twitter.com/EXOK1Lg5vT
— Luis (@luismen1991) April 29, 2020
The Anti-Defamation League’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, blasted de Blasio for “generalizing against the whole population.”
“Hey @NYCMayor, there are 1mil+ Jewish people in #NYC. The few who don’t social distance should be called out — but generalizing against the whole population is outrageous especially when so many are scapegoating Jews. This erodes the very unity our city needs now more than ever,” he tweeted.
As to the free meals for Muslims, one Twitter user called the mayor out for his supposed “wokeness.”
“Why do we Muslims deserve your gentler tone @NYCMayor? And why does your tone pit us against our Jewish cousins in this way? Treating us with a softer tone than you use for other communities, in the name of ‘wokeness’, is not only divisive, but it infantilises [sic] us. Thanks,” he wrote.
New Yorkers have also called de Blasio out for his blatant hypocrisy. Just this week, he was busted violating his own ‘stay-at-home’ order by a city resident after being driven 11 miles from his Gracie Mansion home — which is located in a park — to walk in another park.
@NYCMayor no, I won't "give it a break." You don't get a break. We don't get a break.
You can't change the past & will always have blood on your hands.
If I were you, I'd be working night & day to help those in most dire need. Maybe start with your inadequate homeless services. pic.twitter.com/i71ulg7Hvl
— darren (@brooklyn_darren) April 25, 2020
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