There have been a couple of incidents in recent weeks where a black man or men attacked some jewish people. Invariably, instantly, the story is framed by the media as a hate crime and an incident of anti-semitism as if that's the only possible motive anyone could have for attacking a person of jewish ancestry.
That could be the motive. It's also possible it's gang warfare of some kind--over drugs for example. Who knows? If you browse through news stories of conflict between blacks and jews around the NYC megalopolis, you can find several stories of violence back and forth.
It'd be an interesting exercise to look at samples of stories about inter-ethnic violence and see how they're all framed; it's probably really common for the story to be cast in some stereotypical narrative.
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