Civil rights leaders launch ‘UnMaskHateNY’ campaign as city grapples with ‘alarming’ rise in antisemitism

Likening it to the effort to bring down the Ku Klux Klan, national civil rights leaders are launching an “#UnmaskHateNY” campaign urging the passing of laws barring bigots from using face coverings to hide their identities while harassing or terrorizing Jews, blacks and other Americans.

“Those who carried out the violence at Charlottesville and on Jan. 6 may have felt there would be no repercussions. They were wrong, but only because we saw their faces,” said Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, referring to the deadly white power rally in Virginia in 2017 and the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

“Had they been masked, not only would they have gotten away with literal murder, but they would have been emboldened to continue and escalate the violence,” he added.