An antisemitic organization in Brooklyn, N.Y., that celebrates violence against Jews is planning a protest in the Crown Heights neighborhood on Tuesday evening, blaming a tragic car accident 34 years ago on “Zionist white supremacists from Chabad-Lubavitch.”
On Aug. 19, 1991, two 7-year-old children were struck by a car after a driver ran a red light. The vehicle was part of the motorcade of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the longtime leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement headquartered in the Brooklyn neighborhood.
Gavin Cato died as a result; his cousin, Angela Cato, was injured.
Black residents of the neighborhood rioted for the next few days, carrying out a pogrom against Jewish residents. Australian Chassidic student Yankel Rosenbaum, 29, was stabbed an