The city passed a “no knock” law a couple of years ago because of this; the phenomenon has been a problem in other areas as well. Somehow homeowners who posted signs that they didn’t want to sell their homes (to ANYONE) were deemed anti-Semitic.
There is no justification for the actions of the shooters; bear in mind they killed more non-Jewish people than Jewish ones. Skin color rather than religion seemed to play a larger role.
I know about it. It’s a practice that Hasidic communities would like to discourage, too. In Crown Heights, the Jewish Community Council has a waiting list for bidding on homes that are put on the market. In the Bayswater section of Far Rockaway, there’s a house that’s to die for with a huge parcel of land, and on the door there’s a sign saying, “no, this house is not for sale, but I will entertain offers starting from a million dollars and above.” That was years ago, when I lived in Far Rockaway. I think the bottom offer he’d entertain has probably gone up exponentially. It really is a beautiful house in a neighborhood with many beautiful old houses.
But people are hungry for land, once they can afford it. Big families, crowded apartments in crowded neighborhoods. Still, it’s extremely rude and inexcusable.
This idiot woman somehow amplifies that problem into a casus bellus, sprinkling it with blood libel and racial determinism to make this ethical leap into mass murder more palatable. But it’s not.