Responding to this story from yesterday — this one is vile. The anti-Zionists staged their usual vicious protest, but this time in a Jewish neighbourhood. Then, when the locals pushed back, the invaders released a fragment of film that made it look like the locals were the aggressors.
[IsraelTimes] Anti-Israel activists threaten local community ahead of protest that comes in response to video of Jews pursuing woman down street at scene of anti-Israel rally at synagogueTensions boiled in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights on Monday after videos showed Jews harassing pedestrians at an anti-Israel demonstration, and a call to protest that included threats against the Jewish community. The friction started in the US neighborhood, the home base of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, during a Thursday visit by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
Ben Gvir visited Chabad’s World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway, a synagogue and revered site that is located in the heart of the Jewish community. Anti-Israel demonstrators gathered outside the synagogue after a call by the hardline anti-Israel activist group Within Our Lifetime. The group regularly calls for Israel’s destruction, has been linked to
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...’s October 2023 onslaught.
"He’s being hosted at 770 Eastern Parkway by the racist Zionist Lubavitch sect — yes, the same place where tunnels were uncovered," group leader Nerdeen Kiswani said on X. A rogue group of students dug out a space near the synagogue last year, part of an unauthorized attempt to expand the site. The incident gave rise to a wave of antisemitic conspiracies.
Kiswani later said that demonstrators "are being attacked by racist Lubavitchers."
"This is a pogrom," she said, referring to the historical deadly persecution of Jews in Europe.
Videos from the scene showed the two sides shouting at each other, with police in the middle.
The protest at the holy site drew outrage from local and politicians.
Yaacov Behrman, a Chabad community leader, said on X that the protesters gathered at "the very heart of this heavily populated Jewish neighborhood — spewing hateful, inflammatory rhetoric at innocent passersby." Behrman said the chants included "We don’t want no Zionists here," "We don’t want no two states, we want all of it," and "Resistance® is justified."
Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York said: "The heinous violence last night outside the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn is horrifying and unacceptable."
"I am calling for an immediate federal investigation into these dangerous organizations and their funding networks. Jewish Americans must never feel unsafe in their own communities," she said.
Anti-Israel protesters have rarely held demonstrations in Orthodox neighborhoods in New York. A demonstration in February in Boro Park was also vitriolic and provoked widespread condemnation from city leaders. Past protests outside synagogues have also touched a nerve with local Jews.
The NYPD told The Times of Israel that six individuals were taken into custody at the protest. Five were issued summonses and one, a man from New Jersey, was charged with assault, criminal mischief and harassment.
Later, videos emerged showing a group of Jews following a woman down a street, shouting and chanting "Death to Arabs" in Hebrew. Some of the demonstrators kicked at the woman and one threw a traffic cone at her while a police officer escorted her down a street. Other images showed a different woman in a keffiyeh with a bloodied face.
The former woman claimed in an News Agency that Dare Not be Named interview that she hadn’t been part of the anti-Israel protest and that she wore a scarf over her face to not be filmed. She asserted that the group threatened to rape her and that she had feared for her life and now fears to walk around the neighborhood.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams
...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve...
on Sunday said the NYPD was investigating the festivities.
Adams said in a statement that the protesters "surrounded the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters — a Jewish house of worship."
"Initial reports indicate that one female protester was isolated from her group, harassed by counter-protesters, and suffered injuries," Adams said in a statement. "In another incident, a second woman was subjected to vile threatening by counter-protesters."
The statement said the "NYPD is investigating these incidents."
"None of this is acceptable. In fact, it is despicable," Adams said. "We will not tolerate violence, trespassing, menacing, or threatening. Hate has no place in our city."
On Monday, calls circulated on social media for protests against the Crown Heights Jewish community.
A group called the Bronx Paleostine Solidarity Committee posted threats against the community on social media.
"Waiting for the sleeping giant that is Caribbean Brooklyn, who have long suffered abuse and oppression at the hands of the racist Zionist Chabad Lubavitch to rise up against them," the post said.
"Black people in Brooklyn are
"What would happen if Carribean Brooklyn brought that vybz kartel Barclays energy with ferocity and tore down these fucking monsters!?" it said.
A follow-up post said: "Y’all will not eat off Black people forever."
Another post said: "Crown Heights run it back."
"We will flood the streets of Crown’s Heights to inform them Zionism is not welcome here," it said.
The post called for a protest starting at the Barclays Center, around an hour’s walk from 770.
Local media reported a heavy police presence in the area ahead of the demonstration.
A Chabad spokesperson, Rabbi Motti Seligson, condemned both sides in a statement.
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The leadership of 770 urged students to stay away from the protest, releasing a letter that said: "You must not be present at the demonstration under any circumstances, and certainly must not, Heaven forbid, be drawn into any confrontations."
"It is important to remember that there are deliberate efforts to provoke members of our community into disturbances in order to record incidents and incite against us," the letter said, according to the local Collive news site. "We must distance ourselves completely and remain focused on our true mission—the study of Torah."
The tensions in the neighborhood and accusations of a pogrom by Jews were inflammatory because of race riots against the Jewish community in Crown Heights in 1991 that killed two people. The riots were widely described as an anti-Jewish pogrom.
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