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NY teen arrested for sending ‘kill all Jews’ email to hundreds of classmates
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A teenager has been charged with a hate crime for sending antisemitic emails, the NYPD says.
Police responded to the incident on Monday at Renaissance Charter School in Jackson Heights, Queens, after they were called about the threatening emails, a police spokesperson tells The Times of Israel.
The suspect is charged with aggravated harassment as a hate crime and making a terroristic threat.
“At 2 p.m. we will rise up and kill all the Jews in this school and the city. Fuck the Jews,” the teen wrote to more than 300 students at the school, according to the local QNS news site.
Charter schools are free public schools that are independent of the New York City Department of Education.
“Jew hatred doesn’t just live in NYC public schools, it lives in Charter schools as well. This is scary for all Jewish New Yorkers,” says Moshe Spern, president of the United Jewish Teachers advocacy group.
Spern calls on the school to invest in “comprehensive education about modern day and historical antisemitism.”
Jews are targeted in hate crimes more than all other groups combined in New York City.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has pledged to implement educational curricula in schools to combat antisemitism.
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