{"id":2267837,"date":"2024-06-14T12:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T16:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kathy-hochul-considers-reviving-mask-ban-following-string-of-antisemitic-incidents\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T16:10:10","slug":"kathy-hochul-considers-reviving-mask-ban-following-string-of-antisemitic-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kathy-hochul-considers-reviving-mask-ban-following-string-of-antisemitic-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Hochul contemplates reinstating mask mandate in response to recent antisemitic events"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkathy-hochul-considers-reviving-mask-ban-following-string-of-antisemitic-incidents%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2267837&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Governor Kathy Hochul of New York is\u2064 considering reinstating a ban on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/l-a-county-health-officials-urge-residents-to-wear-masks-at-home-to-protect-vulnerable-one-america-news-network\/\" title=\"L.A. County health officials urge residents to wear masks at home to protect vulnerable | One America News Network\">wearing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">face masks<\/a><\/a> in public\u2062 settings, specifically\u2062 targeting the New\u2064 York City subway system. This decision\u200c comes \u2063in \u200cresponse to recent antisemitic incidents involving masked individuals. The law banning face masks was previously repealed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Governor Hochul, in her recent statements, emphasized that any \u2064reintroduced ban would feature exceptions for health and religious reasons.\u200c However, she has not\u200d specified a timeline for \u2063this change, acknowledging the complexity of the issue and the need to consider public feedback carefully.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kathy-hochul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kathy Hochul<\/a> (D-NY) is considering a ban on face masks in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>New York City<\/a> subway following a series of antisemitic acts by masked individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul said at a Thursday news conference that she was working with lawmakers to bring back a law banning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/face-masks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>face masks<\/a> in public that was repealed in 2020 due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The ban would include \u201ccommon-sense exceptions\u201d for health and religious reasons, Hochul said. She did not provide a timeline for bringing back the ban and said that the specifics of it are unclear, ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/gov-hochul-face-mask-ban-new-york-city-111110708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand how complex this issue is, and we\u2019re just listening to people and addressing their needs and taking them very seriously,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after masked anti-Israel protesters told passengers on a subway train Monday to \u201craise your hand if you\u2019re a Zionist \u2026 this is your chance to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that day, protesters wearing keffiyehs unfurled a banner at Union Square with the words \u201cLong Live October 7.\u201d Another video circulated of an unmasked man shouting, \u201cI wish Hitler was still here. He would\u2019ve wiped you all out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not tolerate individuals using masks to evade responsibility for criminal or threatening behavior,\u201d Hochul said. \u201cMy team is working on a solution, but on a subway, people should not be able to hide behind a mask to commit crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is frightening to people,\u201d she added during a CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6354963999112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>segment<\/a>. \u201cYou\u2019re sitting on a subway train, and someone puts on a mask like this and comes in. You don\u2019t know if they\u2019re going to be committing a crime, they\u2019re going to have a gun, or whether they\u2019re just going to be threatening and intimidating you because you are Jewish, which is exactly what happened the other day. Absolutely unacceptable in the state of New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York City Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/eric-adams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Eric Adams<\/a> has also expressed his support for the idea of bringing back an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/greta-thunberg-to-hong-kong-political-prisoner-joshua-wong-you-are-never-alone\/\" title=\"Greta Thunberg to Hong Kong Political Prisoner Joshua Wong: 'You Are Never Alone'\">anti-mask law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow is the time to go back to the way it was pre-COVID, where you should not be able to wear a mask at protests and our subway systems and other places,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/office-of-the-mayor\/news\/471-24\/transcript-mayor-adams-calls-for-live-interview-77-wabc-s-cats-cosby-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>said<\/a> in an interview on 77 WABC\u2019s <em>Cats and Cosby<\/em> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s previous anti-mask law had been in place since 1845 during protests over rent.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is contemplating reinstating a ban on face masks in NYC subways after multiple antisemitic incidents involving masked perpetrators. At a recent press conference, Hochul mentioned collaborating with legislators to restore the public mask ban repealed in 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3192,"featured_media":2267838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP23304631850756.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2267837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP23304631850756.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2267838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}