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Police secure NY school after 2nd violent antisemitic threat in days
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleLuke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent.
Police in New York City secure a school after the second antisemitic threat there this week.
A student at the Renaissance Charter School in Queens sent a threat to more than 300 of his classmates on Monday, resulting in hate crime charges.
“We will rise up and kill all the Jews in this school and the city. Fuck the Jews,” the 17-year-old wrote.
Jessica Ramos, the area’s representative in the New York State Senate, says that the school received another threat against Jews.
“An adult caller made a violent, antisemitic threat against Renaissance Charter School this morning,” Ramos says. “The 115th Precinct will maintain a police presence today while the incident is investigated.”
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