Thread: NYC’s Health Dept is referring to a COVID spike in some parts of Brooklyn as the "Ocean Parkway cluster," and, well, I've got a problem with that. Ocean Parkway is a main thoroughfare in Brooklyn. It cuts across many neighborhoods. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN26D35G

But...of the 3 neighborhoods mentioned by this Health Dept official, Ocean Parkway only runs through one of them. Ocean Parkway is, for much of its length, quite Jewish. So this seems to me, and I'm happy to be corrected, a "the Jews are spreading COVID" wink.

We just would never do this kind of thing for other groups in NYC. I can't even present an example of what doing this to another ethnicity would look like because it's so offensive. Why does it continue to be ok to target Jews like this?

And lest you imagine this is like a Hasidic community cluster or something, let me clarify that that community lives in Borough Park while Russian Jews live in Bensonhurst and Syrian/Orthodox Jews live in Midwood. It's not a specific community. It's literally "the Jews."