Posted on 04/10/2025 9:45:05 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Behind closed doors, New York lawmakers are advancing a dangerous statewide mask ban. Gov. Hochul first proposed it in June 2024, framing it as a measure for “Jewish safety.” But using Jews to justify stripping civil rights doesn’t make us safe — it makes us a scapegoat.
In response, a few of us medically high-risk Jewish New Yorkers launched Jews for Mask Rights. Our open letter — signed by 2,500 Jews, including more than 315 Jewish leaders and 80 clergy — makes it clear: banning masks won’t make us safer. It turns Jews into justification for policies that put us and others in danger.
In January, we joined the NYCLU and New York Doctors Coalition to deliver letters signed by more than 100 organizations and 250 health care professionals. Now, Hochul is forcing a ban through the budget, bypassing public scrutiny and accountability.
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What will violent, lawless Leftists do if they can’t hide their faces behind a face diaper?
Masking is useless against the virus anyway.
At any anti-Jew, anti-Israel, pro terror event, we should be tearing the masks off of the scum if we get near enough. When arrests are made, the police should be unmasking the slime as soon as the cuffs are on.
I swear to God, Jews are their worst enemy sometimes.
What is not mandatory is prohibited.
The same could be said about any group of people.
Masks. Do. Not. Work. At least not for the purpose stated here.
Very good for obscuring faces, though, and for virtue-signaling.
Alabama has a no mask law except for Halloween and perhaps New Year’s. I don’t remember specifics but it was to prevent people from a certain paramilitary Democrat organization that didn’t like black people from hiding their faces.
Keeps criminals from hiding their faces. Especially on college campuses.
I agree but he is Jewish and he writes this article defending mask wearing terrorists in the US is just beyond the pale...
I swear state, local and the federal governments need a good flushing. If you are engaged in criminal activities I don’t give a 💩 what you wear on your face, if you’re arrested the mask comes off and you’re photographed, period full stop.
Don’t ban masks for “Jewish safety” - - ban them for the safety of all of us from violent left wing criminal thugs.
Klaatu barada nikto
Jewish progressives are despicable. As are Christian progressives. And Muslim progressives. And Hindu progressives. and so on and so on and so on. It is the evil leftist mindset that marks this man, not his birth religion.
Stop making it like I am attacking Jews as a people. I am talking about specific ones such as the one writing this article. You can find these type of people everywhere...
If I misunderstood the point of your original post, I apologize.
There is so much antisemitism around these days, I am perhaps overly sensitive to to appearance of it.
I can see that you were not being antisemitic, merely calling out the irony in this situation.
Hoe are those masked people?
They sure aren’t like The Lone Ranger wearing them for good.
Jews for the Golden Calf.
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