Pro-Palestinian activists launched what appeared to be one of the first pogroms against Jews in almost a century over the weekend.
NEW: Pro-Palestine protesters block the entrance to a synagogue in Los Angeles and physically assault Jews in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood.
Masked protesters were reportedly preventing Jews from entering the synagogue.
The Los Angeles police department responded to the… pic.twitter.com/TvU94hZQGZ
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 23, 2024
CNN discussed the growing violence against Jews being perpetrated by a group that the Biden White House has been courting for half a year.
A Pro-Palestinian protest outside a Los Angeles synagogue turned violent Sunday after counter protesters arrived and several altercations broke out between the two groups, video shows.
The Los Angeles Police Department said it responded to two protests Sunday in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Pico Robertson, just south of Beverly Hills. Video taken at the scene shows police pushing pro-Palestinian protesters away from the entrance of the Adas Torah temple.
Chants of “Free, free Palestine – from the river to the sea,” and “long live intifada,” could be heard from among the pro-Palestinian protesters. Participants blocked traffic and video from the scene shows multiple altercations broke out in the middle of the street and on sidewalks.
There is now a “Charlottesville” every day in America. https://t.co/fd8JRVq0EQ
— Dan Senor (@dansenor) June 24, 2024
“Doesn’t belong here,” Rabbi Hertzel Illulian told KCAL when asked about the violence in the area. “I don’t think the Jewish would go in front of a mosque or the Christian people would go in front of a mosque to do such a thing, nobody would accept this, but here, when it comes to Jews and Israel everything is kosher, everything is okay.”
The Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, released a tepid statement that refused to even acknowledge who was attacked or did the attacking.
Reading the first paragraph of this, you wouldn’t know: 1) who was attacked; 2) which “house of worship” was targeted; and 3) who did it
By the second paragraph, you can figure it out via deductive reasoning. It shouldn’t be that difficult to find the words to condemn a pogrom https://t.co/eBSf9KBM0T
— Adam Rubenstein (@RubensteinAdam) June 24, 2024
The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, enacted in 1994, is a U.S. federal law that prohibits obstructing access to reproductive health services and places of worship through violence, threats, or physical obstruction. It aims to protect patients, providers, and worshippers from intimidation and ensure safe access to clinics and religious facilities. So far, Biden has only used the act to go after old ladies praying in front of an abortion clinic and send SWAT Teams to the homes of pro-lifers.
Democrats have been panicked over the past year as the party’s antisemitic base has come to the forefront in American cities and college campuses. The party leaders are less because of the violence and more because they worry they won’t vote for them this November.
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