💰 Attacker yells ‘Kanye 2024’ during antisemitic assault, police say

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Before the attacker fled on a bicycle — with a trailer featuring a sign reading “Hungry Disabled” — police say he referenced the artist formerly known as Kanye West, who has issued several antisemitic tirades, saying “Kanye 2024.”The 63-year-old man, who has not been publicly identified, was hospitalized in stable condition, police said.One person who has come to represent some of that extremism is Ye, who was recently suspended from Twitter after the rapper tweeted an image of a swastika blended in with a star of David.The rapper later added, “I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis.”The Wednesday attack in Central Park was quickly condemned by the ADL and others fighting the rise in antisemitism in the United States.“This is yet another example that Ye’s unhinged antisemitic remarks and his doubling down on them again and again can lead to violence and incite others to act,” Scott Richman, the regional director for the ADL in New York and New Jersey, said in a statement to The Post.The perpetrator has been tracked as far south as Washington Square Park, post incident pic.twitter.com/2CSbzibm4AMichelle Boorstein, Isaac Arnsdorf and Joseph Menn contributed to this report."

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