Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Antisemitism in New York

Episode Date: June 18, 2024

Bill looks at antisemitism aimed at Jewish New Yorkers. Originally only available in the New York City area, Bill’s Empire State O’Reilly commentary addresses local New York issues, but those issues have implications, impact the country, and mirror problems in other states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So I get a lot of good story ideas when I'm out and about, and people ask me questions. And one of the things that I'm being asked about is anti-Semitism in New York, not countrywide or worldwide. So we did a little investigating, and I think you'll find it interesting. There are 1.6 million Jews in New York City. That is the largest Jewish population in the world. In Jerusalem, there is 600,000 Jewish residents. So I think Israel has got 3 million, maybe four. And then LA, Los Angeles, they have 600,000 Jewish people there.

Most areas of the USA do not have a lot of Jews. It's an ethnic migration situation. And it is, causes some misconceptions. Now, Jewish people are heavily into finance, into showbiz, into property owning, and they are very successful, generally speaking. The state of New York last year, there were 1,200 anti-Semitic incidents reported. 1200. That's a lot, I would say. They include harassment vandalism assaults. The Orthodox Jews were targeted 61% of the time in assaults, because obviously visible in their dress

and their manner. Around the country, it is not as intense as New York. Okay, so there aren't a lot of anti-Semitic incidents being reported around the country. What has happened is these vile demonstrations, pro-Hamas, pro-Gaza, whatever you want to call it, demonstrations have lighted a fuse, so people with a personality disorder, because if you would hurt somebody of another ethnic group or skin, color or religion, you have a personality disorder. That's not to excuse your conduct, but you're crazy. Why would anybody do that? Now, I grew up in Levittown, as many of you know, on Long Island, and we had a mixed neighborhood of white ethnic groups, no blacks. So Leavitt, the construction

company, there were two brothers, they would not sell to blacks. So blacks lived in West Berwick. a few miles away and in Hempstead, Long Island. So in my neighborhood in Levitant, it were Irish, many, Italians, Jewish, and some Polish. All of them got ribbed. All the ethnic groups got ribbed, okay? And you know the slang terms, they were all used, including the N-word.

Not a lot. I saw a little bit of anti-black sentiment, but not a lot. but not a lot, but anti-Semitic, not hardly any, because all the Jewish guys were on the sports teams. And we used to get angry because they had to go to Hebrew schools at a game when I ceased in the fifth inning because you could hear their mothers calling them. It was really funny.

But there wasn't any like, oh, you're Jewish and we hate you or your Catholic. No. It emanated in the city when Jewish landlords rented to poor people. That really escalated anti-Semitism in New York City to this day. And a lot of people of color don't like Jewish people based upon the landlord situation. I know that to be true because I've investigated it. But if you're a landlord, you know, there are good landlords. bad. And he said, blizzard. But that's where it emanated from. So I tell people when they

ask me, I ask, look, anti-Semitism is a problem, but not a severe problem. It's exacerbated now, but we are not a land. America is not a land that hates Jews.