People abuse public assistance, that is going to happen in all religions races etc. Public assistance should be scaled down and eventually eliminated, President Trump is doing that. It takes a while for this stuff to happen.
People see what they want to see. And people’s own personal prejudices play a big part of that.
I believe Jews, Catholics, Muslims, etc have the right to exist, buy homes, pray, enjoy life just like anyone else. Nothing is stopping Catholics from buying all the homes near a cathedral. Nothing is stopping the Methodists from building more churches or private schools.
And once a community believes they can prevent XYZ person from moving in because they will “destroy the community” they are working against American values and freedoms.
BTW, if you don’t want to sell your home to Jewish person or any person for that matter, don’t sell it them. It is that simple.
The city had to pass an ordinance a couple of years ago to stop the practice of simply showing up on people’s front steps. I won’t dignify the comment from the black woman about Jews threatening to bring in hookers and drug dealers to chase the residents out because I’m skeptical that conversation even happened, but I understand the concerns of tenants being evicted as multi-family homes are bought. That is just a fact of life (regardless of who bought the property), and nobody would give a hoot if it happened to me (I’d be expected to handle it on my own), but ignoring those concerns is driving some of the anger.
I have never seen Catholics, Methodists, or Muslims accused of trying to push people out of a neighborhood - even as Muslims in particular fill some neighborhoods today.
Regarding public assistance, this is a non-issue here IMO - I believe both parties involved have the potential for abusing it. Eliminating public assistance itself isn’t an option, nor should it be; while I’ve never used it, I understand its purpose - and the savagery that would result if it didn’t placate hungry and/or homeless people.
Seeing this from only one side or the other is pointless; it also can’t be viewed without taking into account the gentrification occurring in other parts of Jersey City (driving long-term residents from those neighborhoods) or the scandal over the past couple of years whereas NYC has been foisting its homeless on NJ cities (including Jersey City, Newark, and Elizabeth). This Orthodox population is moving into an area already squeezed by all of those forces at work.
In the end, you’re avoiding the point that this is not about Jewish people per se; it is about one particular sub-set (just as it is in central NJ and Rockland County NY), and other Jewish people form part of the opposition. This isn’t simple anti-Semitism.