Tish James GOP AG rival Saritha Komatireddy vows to declare NYC antisemitism state of emergency on day oneif elected

Republican state attorney general candidate Saritha Komatireddy on Friday vowed to declare a state of emergency over soaring antisemitism, if elected — following the terrifying syringe stabbing of a young rabbi in the Diamond District this week.Komatireddy — a former federal prosecutor running against Democratic incumbent Attorney General Letitia James — made the promise while speaking from the site of Wednesday’s attack, where a woman was filmed stalking 26-year-old Yousef Krish before apparently plunging a syringe into his back.“When I am attorney general, I will declare a state of emergency on antisemitism on day one,” Komatireddy told reporters.She noted that despite Jewish New Yorkers making up roughly 10-12% of the Big Appel’s population, they have faced more than 50% of all confirmed hate crimes this year, according to NYPD statistics released this month.“Every Jewish New Yorker is feeling the rise of hate in our city and in our state,” Komatireddy said.In what could be the most recent incident in the ongoing spate of anti-Jewish hate, Krish was walking along West 47th Street at around 6 p.m.during the evening bustle when a Russian-speaking woman began harassing him, according to police and law enforcement sources.Video showed him trying to evade her and dodging into the street — but she followed and then jabbed him in the back with something sharp, the sources said.

He was taken to a hospital in stable condition after the attack.“I’m still shaken,” Krish, a Brooklyn resident, told Jewish digital platform Chabad.org.“I never imagined I’d be stabbed simply for being Jewish, right here in New York City.”Krish, who recently received his rabbinic ordination, makes the trek from Crown Heights to Midtown daily to share religious teachings with Jewish merchants in the area, the outlet reported.“As I try to make sense of what happened, I keep thinking about my grandparents,” he told Chabad.org.

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