The sermon was live streamed on YouTube from the Islamic Center of Rockland’s page, further spreading its corrosive message of hate, evil, and divisiveness, during which a visiting Islamic Center Imam offered a supplication that Palestinians and Gazans be granted the ability to destroy Zionist Jews.
The Imam’s claim during his corrosive sermon that his words are not racist shows a clear lack of understanding of reality and what hate speech, racism, and Antisemitism are.
“If that’s not racism,” Senator Weber stated, “I don’t know what is. Wishing death and destruction on an entire population simply for being who they are is, despite the Imam’s claim, unacceptable.”
“As a member of the New York State Senate Antisemitism Working Group, I call for accountability and consequences for anyone who would speak in such an intolerable manner within my district, just like I called for the same during the Antisemitic protests that endangered Jewish students on university campuses this past spring,” said Senator Weber.
“The atrocities committed on October 7th by the Hamas terror organization were horrific and the worst attack against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. All forms of hate are to be strongly condemned, and Jews cannot be an exception to the standard. Silence is complicity, and I will not turn a blind eye in the face of hatred,” concluded Senator Weber.
