{"id":227622,"date":"2026-05-11T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227622\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:07:08","slug":"jews-rally-against-hatred-in-queens-ny-police-search-for-vandalism-suspects-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227622\/","title":{"rendered":"Jews rally against hatred in Queens, NY; police search for vandalism suspects – Israel & Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n May 11, 2026
\n \/ JNS
\n )<\/p>\n

About 150 members of the Jewish community in Queens, N.Y., held a rally on Sunday, dubbed \u201cThis Shall Not Stand,\u201d after swastikas were recently spray-painted on synagogues, homes and other locations in Forest Hills and Rego Park.<\/p>\n

The demonstration, organized<\/a> by Jewish organizations at a nearby park, came days after residents discovered<\/a> Nazi graffiti at five sites, including the Rego Park Jewish Center and the home of a Holocaust survivor.<\/p>\n

Police said they are searching<\/a> for four suspects seen on surveillance footage.<\/p>\n

Speakers included New York State Assemblyman David Weprin; former New York State Representative Dov Hikind; Jayne Zirkle, director of communications and outreach for the Lawfare Project; and pro-Israel influencer Zach Sage Fox.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince Oct. 7, hate crimes have increased manyfold, and more than 50% of all hate crimes are antisemitism and anti-Jewish hate crimes,\u201d Weprin said at the May 10 rally. \u201cFor the first time in my life, many Jewish New Yorkers and I don\u2019t feel safe in this city and state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nassau County executive Bruce Blakeman, also a New York gubernatorial candidate, stated that Jew-hatred must be confronted directly. \u201cAntisemitism is on the rise, and we have to make sure that every antisemite knows that we will not back down, that we will stand up to it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"( May 11, 2026 \/ JNS ) About 150 members of the Jewish community in Queens, N.Y., held…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-227622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}