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Solidarity march against anti-Semitism, acts of hate

By REBECCA GIBIAN grocery in Jersey City, New from her home in Ellicott
Associated Press Jersey. City, Maryland, to take
NEW YORK (AP) — Throngs The crowds of participants, part in the march, and said
of demonstrators joined by thousands strong, jammed it was even more impor-
elected officials walked sol- the streets in lower Man- tant to her after a recent
emnly across the Brooklyn hattan as they waited trip to the part of Europe
Bridge in a solidarity march their turns to get across the where her family comes
Sunday against anti-Semi- bridge. from, where she learned
tism and all acts of hate. "It is wonderful that we are about their experience in
The "No Hate, No Fear" doing this and sad that the Holocaust. "Discrimina-
march was organized by we still have to do it," said tion, racism, anti-Semitism,
New York's Jewish commu- Claudia Stoller, 31, of Man- is repugnant to every value
nity in the wake of recent hattan. "But it was never that New Yorkers hold dear,
anti-Semitic attacks, includ- lost on me that the Jewish and repugnant to every
ing a knife attack at a Ha- community could always value that this country rep-
nukkah celebration north be targeted and should resents," Cuomo said as he People march across the Brooklyn Bridge in solidarity with the
Jewish community after recent string of anti-semitic attacks
of New York City that left always be ready to be lauded the crowd of sever- throughout the greater New York area, on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020
five people wounded and strong." al thousand that turned out in New York.
a fatal shootout at a kosher Tiana Gianci, 44, came up in support of the march.q Associated Press