As war grinds on in Gaza, many in Brooklyn's ‘Little Palestine’ feel the sting
A Palestinian flag hangs in the front window of Kings Salon barbershop in Bay Ridge, Al Jazeera news plays on the TV, and manager Bahaa Sharabati says almost every customer who sits in his barber’s chair has a view to share on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, what the U.S. government should do, and the war’s mounting death toll.
Everyone's mourning, whether they're Palestinian, Arab, different ethnicities, Muslims. We’re all mourning in Bay Ridge.“Everyone's mourning, whether they're Palestinian, Arab, different ethnicities, Muslims,” said Marwa Janini, director of the Arab American Association of New York, headquartered in the neighborhood. “We’re all mourning in Bay Ridge.”
“There's a lot of fear around, like, do our kids speak about Palestine?” she said. “And, the do's and don'ts. And who do we speak to? Who can we trust, and who can we not trust? And if we speak about Palestine, are we going to be labeled as extremists and terrorists?”The NYPD has reported a handful of anti-Palestinian hate crimes since the war started, including an Oct.
Next door, an NYPD patrol car has been routinely stationed outside the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge mosque, where men in kufi caps gather as the Muslim call to prayer reverberates from the loudspeakers, since the war began. At the Women’s Empowerment Coalition of NYC’s basement brownstone-turned-office space, many of the women in a recent afternoon English class shared fears about their personal safety.
“Whatever happened in Middle East, it's impacted us here,” she said. “What happened in Palestine is going to impact us as a Muslim community.”
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