The US Justice Department is suing anti-Israel organizations and demonstrators it accuses of intimidating Jewish worshipers at a New Jersey synagogue, using a US law that has traditionally been used against people blocking access to
The lawsuit, filed on Monday in New Jersey federal court, alleges that a November 13 protest against an event at a synagogue in West Orange, New Jersey, billed as a spiritual service and Israel real estate fair, escalated into violence.
Demonstrators physically assaulted some worshipers and chanted and used vuvuzelas — plastic trumpets sometimes used by soccer fans — to disrupt the event, according to the complaint.
The case was brought under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, a 1994 law that prohibits the use of force and physical obstruction to interfere with people at reproductive health centers or houses of worship.
The Justice Department has brought several cases against protesters who have obstructed
"The practice of turning a blind eye to these attacks on houses of worship throughout the United States stops now," Dhillon, who was nominated to the role by US President Donald Trump
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The Justice Department under Trump has curtailed the use of the FACE Act in
Trump in January pardoned several people who had been prosecuted under the law.
The civil lawsuit in New Jersey names the Party for Socialism and Liberation in New Jersey and Moslems for Paleostine New Jersey as defendants. It seeks a court order barring those groups from using force or physical obstruction to interfere with worshipers at any house of worship in New Jersey.
Neither group could immediately be reached for comment.
The Trump administration has cracked down on anti-Israel protests, notably on US campuses, where it cut funding and revoked international students’ visas, citing universities’ alleged failure to crack down on antisemitism following the Hamas
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Last November, members of the Jewish community made plans for two gatherings: an Israel real estate seminar and a celebration. While the original site of the events was to be the home of a community member, it had to be moved to a nearby synagogue due to what the JewishLink news site called ''multiple threats from pro-Hamas groups and protesters stalking the (member's) home.''
The JewishLink report added, ''Despite efforts to keep the new location private, pro-Hamas protesters discovered the venue. They stormed the quiet neighborhood, chanting 'Zionists are Nazis,' 'Intifada, Intifada' and 'From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.'''
The DOJ complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, alleges that certain protesters ''engaged in threats of force, intimidation, and violent conduct directed at congregants of the Congregation Ohr Torah synagogue.''
In a statement, the DOJ said, ''According to the complaint, the defendants' actions were intended to interfere with the synagogue community's right to freely exercise their religion, including gathering for a religious ceremony to honor the life of a deceased rabbi.''
The FACE Act was enacted in 1994 to punish peaceful pro-life demonstrations in what its pro-abortion proponents framed as countering an organized, national campaign of obstruction, destruction, and violence against abortion clinics and their staff members.
What they've always had a problem with is that the presence of peaceful pro-life protesters is a usually quiet reminder to expectant mothers that they are indeed carrying a living human being into that abortion clinic.
While the FACE Act was designed to enhance access to the left's sacred place in the form of an abortion mill, the act's creators decided to throw a bone to Republicans — obviously, to give them some cover — by adding in ''places of worship.'' In a ghoulish way there is an equivalency. The left doesn't see much of a difference between their holy place for human sacrifice and the way the rest of us see the holiness of a church or a synagogue.