New York City Jewish leaders demanded Mayor Zohran Mamdani “stop fanning the flames of hatred and division” Friday — as they urged cops to charge the deranged attacker who stabbed two men on the Upper West Side with a hate crime.
Suspect Raul Morales, 51, allegedly yelled “Allahu Akbar” as he attacked the two victims — one Asian and one Jewish — in separate attacks blocks from Central Park on Thursday afternoon, police said.
“We’re horrified and heartbroken by yesterday’s attacks. But to be clear, we are no longer surprised,” UJA-Federation of New York CEO Eric Goldstein said at a press conference near the scene, blaming the mayor’s anti-Israel rhetoric for the violence in a blistering condemnation.
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