A multi-million greenback non-profit group has launched a fundraising marketing campaign to thank the NYPD for being “a true friend to the Jewish community” amid a surge of anti-Israel protests and antisemitic assaults throughout the Large Apple.
The Paul E. Singer Basis — the charitable outfit of hedge fund billionaire Paul E. Singer — is trying to increase not less than $250,000 for the New York Metropolis Police Basis and has vowed to match as much as $200,000 in funds both donated or dedicated.
Organizers pointed to the heavy NYPD presence that stored members protected at this 12 months’s Israel Day Parade on Fifth Avenue — the primary since Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 bloodbath.
“We are grateful to everyone who marched, but we found ourselves feeling especially fortunate to have had the protection of New York’s Finest,” the organizers wrote on the fundraising web page.
Organizers additionally thanked the division for shielding Jewish New Yorkers from “other threats to our community” since Hamas’ assault on Israel final 12 months.
“The New York Police Department has been resolute in its pursuit to maintain law and order to protect all New Yorkers,” a supply aware of the marketing campaign advised The Put up in a Friday interview.
“This has been particularly challenging over the past nine months for those of us in the Jewish community.”
The supply cited the police presence June 10 as an indignant mob descended on the Nova Music Competition Exhibition on Wall Avenue, which memorializes the homicide and rape victims of the Oct. 7 Nova Music Competition, the place 364 individuals had been killed by Hamas terrorists.
He additionally pointed to the NYPD’s efforts to “restore safety and order” at Columbia College within the spring, when a mob of anti-Israel protesters descended on the Ivy League campus, together with its iconic Hamilton Corridor.
“All of those sort of put together inspired us to do something to demonstrate our support and we’re so eager and grateful for the police force,” the supply stated. “And so we wanted to put together this sort of public-facing initiative on behalf of the New York City Police Foundation.”
By Friday afternoon, greater than $165,000 of the $250,000 objective had been reached. The fundraiser is anticipated to shut round 5 p.m. Monday.
Among the many contributors was writer, columnist, information commentator and political adviser Dan Senor.
“I just donated to this “Thank NYPD” marketing campaign—an vital approach for the native Jewish neighborhood to say thanks to New York’s Most interesting for having our backs this 12 months,” Senor posted on X.
Senor beforehand served as senior overseas coverage adviser for Mitt Romney throughout his 2012 bid for the presidency, in addition to chief spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.
He co-authored The Genius of Israel: The Shocking Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World, revealed final 12 months, and Begin-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Financial Miracle, which hit the cabinets again in 2009.
The fundraiser comes because the NYPD has fielded 189 stories of hate crimes concentrating on Jewish victims within the metropolis this 12 months, in comparison with 107 throughout the identical interval final 12 months.
“The terror attacks on October 7th changed the public safety landscape, and we’re still feeling the ripple effects of that terrible day,” Police Commissioner Edward Caban stated at a pre-Passover safety briefing this 12 months.
