Assignment: For the Week of April 6, 2020

While it’s going to take a while for the coronavirus to be under control in this country, there are people around that are unemployed and require financial support to help them with their daily lives. At the moment we have our economy in a bit a harsh environment, with stock markets plummeting, businesses closing down and people increasingly losing their jobs some people are taking advantage of this pandemic to make a nice amount of profit. For example, this Jewish male that I read about recently when I was scrolling through my social media page. Baruch Feldheim, 43, from Brooklyn was charged with assault charges, with combined 6 years in prison charge, and a $350,000 fine. Before I get into why he is in a place he is now, you have to understand that the majority of Jewish people and their community not just in Brooklyn but around the world don’t believe that the Coronavirus is a real thing. On top of that, Coronavirus is spreading violently in the Jewish community (Borough Park, a center of Religious Group of Jewish People which makes up a hefty percentage of all Jewish people in New York, and maybe the whole USA) as Passover (Religious Holiday) is in the midst of it all resulting people to gather in large groups rather than staying home. Back to Baruch Feldheim, he was arrested after an FBI raid for “allegedly sold N95 respirators “and other assorted materials” for $12,000, a 700% markup from their normal prices.” Officials say he had made an unofficial deal over a WhatsApp with a doctor in New Jersey to sell individuals masks and other medical materials for more than 700% the amount of the original price. He was arrested for coughing on an FBI agent while claimed to be infected with the virus. His sentence and the financial charges were also an indirect result of hoarding large amounts of medical-grade materials that violated an executive order made by the Health Department.

An in-depth article about the rest of the story is available here:

https://www.jpost.com/international/brooklyn-man-arrested-after-coughing-on-fbi-agents-623286

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One Response to Assignment: For the Week of April 6, 2020

  1. JSylvor says:

    Abubakr, This post left me a bit confused and a bit troubled. First of all, the article that you include, which comes from The Jerusalem Post, describes a single individual who. appears to have committed at least two crimes – trying to sell medical supplies at inflated prices and then falsely claiming that he had coronavirus and coughing on government agents. These are both serious and troubling offenses. I don’t see, however, any link between this news report and the sweeping claims you make about the Jews, which seem to me to be both ignorant (Have you done any research about this topic?), ill-informed, and deeply anti-Semitic. I’m particularly troubled by your assertion that Jewish people “don’t believe in coronavirus.” If you want to make sweeping claims about an entire religious group (15 million people), I would hope that you have verifiable evidence to back up your claims.

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