{"id":825515,"date":"2026-05-27T12:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/825515\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:36:20","slug":"cair-ny-denounces-vandalism-targeting-kosher-bagel-shop-in-jamaica-estates-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/825515\/","title":{"rendered":"CAIR-NY denounces vandalism targeting Kosher bagel shop in Jamaica Estates \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cair-ny.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CAIR-NY<\/a>) has condemned recent vandalism targeting a Kosher bagel shop in <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/jamaica-estates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica Estates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD is investigating a potential hate crime after CCTV footage showed an unidentified vandal throwing a number of objects toward Bagels &amp; Company, an Israeli-owned store located in Jamaica Estates.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which took place at around 1 a.m. on Friday, May 22, lasted for around five minutes while the suspect hurled plants, chairs and tables at the building. It appears that the suspect is wearing a traditional Muslim garment known as a thobe, according to footage of the incident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DYtQlovNb8H\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">posted on social media.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAIR-NY Executive Director Afaf Nasher strongly condemned the incident and called for a full police investigation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge community leaders, elected officials, and residents to reject antisemitism and all other forms of bigotry,\u201d Nasher said in a statement. \u201cLaw enforcement authorities should conduct a thorough investigation and hold anyone responsible accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nasher added that CAIR-NY and the American Muslim community \u201cstands in solidarity\u201d with victims of antisemitism, anti-black racism, Islamophobia and all other forms of bigotry.\n<\/p>\n<p>QNS has attempted to reach Bagels &amp; Company on several occasions.\n<\/p>\n<p>The attack comes after a wave of antisemitic incidents across the borough, including a spate of attacks at the beginning of the month that saw four teenagers deface several Jewish properties with swastikas in Forest Hills.<\/p>\n<p>Elected officials and Jewish community leaders gathered on May 5 at Congregation Machane Chodosh, an orthodox synagogue located at 67-29 108th St. was targeted in the attacks, to denounce a rise in antisemitism across the city. During the antisemtic attacks in early May, the teens vandalized the synagogue\u2019s memorial dedicated to the victims of Kristallnacht, an anti-Jewish pogrom carried out by the Nazis in 1938.<\/p>\n<p>According to recent city statistics, antisemitism accounted for 60% of all hate crimes reported to the police in April 2026. Reports of antisemitic hate crimes dropped by 30% compared to April 2025, according to the police, dropping from 43 reported incidents last year to 30 this year.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Anti Defamation League asserted that New York still leads the nation in antisemitic hate crimes, pointing to a reported 1,160 incidents that took place in 2025. That marked a 19% decline from 2024 but more than double the reported incidents from 2022.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) has condemned recent vandalism targeting a Kosher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":825516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[100810,5229,71627,12648,339081,339082,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,1130],"class_list":["post-825515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-adl","tag-america","tag-antisemitic","tag-antisemitism","tag-cair-ny","tag-kosher-bagel","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vandalism"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}