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TRIGGER WARNINGS:  No one is safe, once the mob tastes blood.

For John, BLUF:  We really should calm down and not let "presentism" warp our historic view.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Jewish activists target removal of Peter Stuyvesant monuments

From The New York Post, by Reporters Yoav Gonen and Ruth Brown, on 24 August.

Here is the lede plus two:

Move over Christopher Columbus, it’s Peter Stuyvesant’s turn to get scorched in the monuments war.

A Jewish activist group is now demanding Mayor de Blasio scrub all traces of the anti-Semitic Dutch governor from city property — even Stuyvesant High School — as part of his campaign to rid the city of “symbols or hate.”

“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.

He is not wrong about Mr Peter Stuyvesant.

So, they want to replace Governor Peter Stuyvesant with Asser Levy, the first Jew to own a house in North America.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff