Jewish Activists Target Removal Of Peter Stuyvesant Monuments

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>“Peter Stuyvesant was an extreme racist who targeted Jews and other minorities including Catholics and energetically tried to prohibit them from settling in then New Amsterdam,” said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the head of the Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center.

>“New York, of all American cities, which boasts such important Jewish history and claims such a present day vibrant Jewish community, should take the lead in denouncing Stuyvesant’s bigotry.”

>Stuyvesant did eventually allow the people he described as “deceitful,” “very repugnant” and “blasphemous” to settle at the order of the Dutch West India Company

>Erasing Stuyvesant’s name from the city wouldn’t just affect Manhattan’s Stuyvesant Square and its eponymous statue — there’s also the elite public Stuyvesant High School, and possibly even the entire neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant.

>Darshan-Leitner recommends replacing all traces of his name with that of Asher
Levy, one of the first Jewish settlers in New Amsterdam.

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