ADL New York / New Jersey Condemns Anti-Semitic Comments from Local Official in Chester, New York
New York, NY, September 17, 2018… The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today strongly condemned comments from a town supervisor in Orange County, calling the comments anti-Semitic and hateful. According to local reporting, Alex Jamieson, Town Supervisor of the town of Chester, New York, explained, “The idea is to keep the Hasidic [sic] out,” as the justification for a recent Town purchase of a nine-acre property, as well as the Town’s consideration of adopting