{"id":712,"date":"2007-12-16T19:11:34","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T19:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/16\/merry-christmas-or-i-punch-you\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T19:11:34","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T19:11:34","slug":"merry-christmas-or-i-punch-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/16\/merry-christmas-or-i-punch-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas, or I Punch Your Freakin Face, Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In New York City, a group of Jews were beaten by Christians, as an expression of Christmas Holiday cheer.  One of the assailants was previously convicted of anti-black hate crime.<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/oreilly_declares_victory_in_wa.php\">Bill O&#8217;Reilly <\/a>has some strong supporters in New York City&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of people exchanging holiday greetings on a subway last week hurled anti-Semitic slurs and beat four Jewish riders who had wished them &#8220;Happy Hanukkah,&#8221; &#8230;The four Jewish riders were on a train in lower Manhattan during the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights when they were approached by a group of 10 people who offered holiday greetings.When they wished the group &#8220;Happy Hanukkah,&#8221; they were assaulted&#8230;Police caught up with the train one stop later in Brooklyn and arrested eight men and two women, ages 19 and 20 &#8230; [who were then] arraigned Saturday on several charges, including third-degree assault and menacing and second-degree riot and harassment. They pleaded not guilty.One of the men charged, Joseph Jirovec, 19, pleaded guilty last year to attempted robbery as a hate crime and was awaiting sentencing, prosecutors said.Jirovec, who is white, was part of a group that yelled racial epithets and assaulted two black teenagers in Brooklyn, prosecutors said&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/12\/11\/america\/Subway-Attack.php\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In New York City, a group of Jews were beaten by Christians, as an expression of Christmas Holiday cheer. One of the assailants was previously convicted of anti-black hate crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-bu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}