Visiting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says Sunday that a recent rash of anti-Semitic acts in the United States was “reprehensible” and his state would have no tolerance for them.
In a visit to Israel, Cuomo makes his first comments following the toppling of headstones at a Jewish cemetery this weekend in Brooklyn. It follows a series of vandalism attacks at Jewish cemeteries and more than 120 bomb threats to Jewish organizations in three dozen states since early January. In New York City alone, anti-Semitic hate crimes nearly doubled in the past year.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo looks at photographs of Jews who were killed during the Holocaust, in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
Speaking at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, Cuomo says the incidents “violated every tenet of the New York State tradition.” He says the state has posted rewards and put together a special police unit to combat the phenomenon.
“New York State by its definition is a celebration of diversity, it accepts all, we believe in the spirit of inclusion and we live by discrimination of none. New York’s principles are built on a rock. They will not change and the political wings will not change them,” he says, alongside Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. “We have made it clear that there will be no tolerance for these acts of anti-Semitism.”
— AP
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