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CM Krishnan questions panel on Black Jewish and African diaspora community data

New York City Council · Jun 23, 2026 · starts 1:51:15 · 1 min 50 sec

CM Krishnan asks whether any data exists on hate against Black Jewish communities and people from the African diaspora in his Harlem district. Both panelists offer to follow up with specific data, with Gage noting African and African American Muslim communities are a large portion of CAIR's constituents.

Shekar Krishnan

I'm curious to know as well,

Shekar Krishnan

I'm trying to figure out how to state this.

Shekar Krishnan

What I'm curious to know is, has any of your data surrounded, for the Jewish community, the

Shekar Krishnan

black Jewish community and any hate reporting, because in my district, in District 9 in Harlem, we do have a Jewish community that is black.

Shekar Krishnan

And in addition to care, anything

Shekar Krishnan

dealing with like the, I mean, we have like a whole little Africa community that involves all kinds of folks from the African diaspora.

Shekar Krishnan

And I'm just wondering, has there been any information as it relates to people of,

Shekar Krishnan

I don't want to just say African-American descent because they've been categorized like that if they don't have their yarmulke on or kufi on or something like that.

Member of the Public - Hilary Stuchin

Yeah, no, so I personally don't have that information available right now, but we're more than happy to follow up with your office and provide answers to any of these questions.

Member of the Public - Hilary Stuchin

I will say this, you know, we understand.

Member of the Public - Hilary Stuchin

That we go back to the underreporting of it all, right?

Member of the Public - Hilary Stuchin

So, and what data is available to look back to.

Member of the Public - Hilary Stuchin

So I'll happily get that information for you.

Member of the Public - Sophia Tobia Gage

Yeah, I'm also happy to get that information and send it at a later time, but I will say that the African and African-American Muslim communities are a large majority of our constituents and groups that we, yeah, are very important that we work with often.

Shekar Krishnan

Thank you.

Shekar Krishnan

Thank you for your testimony.

Member of the Public - Amol Alik

Thank you.