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Charlottesville Jews Were Forced Out The Back Door By Neo-Nazi Marchers On Shabbat
Forward ^ | August 16, 2017 | Daniel J. Solomon Read more: http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/380116/charlottesville-synagogue-

Posted on 08/16/2017 6:00:29 PM PDT by piasa

As white supremacists converged on a Charlottesville park for their violent “Unite the Right” rally, some of them menaced the city’s historic Beth Israel synagogue during Shabbat services, standing across from the building with semi-automatic weapons in their hands. “Had they tried to enter, I don’t know what I could have done to stop them, but I couldn’t take my eyes off them, either,” wrote Alan Zimmerman, the president of the Reform congregation, about the three neo-Nazis he stared down as congregants prayed inside.

Zimmerman, in an essay published on ReformJudaism.org, said that neo-Nazis marching past the building shouted hateful slogans like “Seig Heil,” the Third Reich’s “Hail Victory” shout. He added that the synagogue had retained an armed guard, after the Charlottesville police department failed to provide the synagogue with security on Saturday. The synagogue took other precautionary measures, due to calls on far-right Web sites for the building to be burned. Zimmerman said that he and the rabbis decided to remove the congregation’s Torah scrolls to a more secure location.... Read more: http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/380116/charlottesville-synagogue-back-door-neo-nazis/


TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: antifaflag; charlottesville; jews; lies; neonazis; synagogue
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People should be able to worship without nonsense like this, but three unidentified people that dress up and spew nazi slogans also shouldn't be able to strike fear in a congregation of Jews in a country with a 2nd amendment. If the rabbis are fearful, this is exactly what the 2nd amendment is for- so the gentle can live without fear.

It's ugly, sad and frustrating to have one's tolerance tested by the intolerant, but it's not much different than what Al Gore's Westboro "Baptist" goons did to churches, funerals and such for more than ten years and there were far more than three of those goons. And it's that tolerance of speech, not our fear of it, that makes us American.

1 posted on 08/16/2017 6:00:30 PM PDT by piasa
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How much you want to bet that Zimmerman still can't imagine why anyone would want to own a firearm or be allowed to defend themselves?

Hopefully this is something of a mind-opening experience to bafflingly liberal American Jews.

2 posted on 08/16/2017 6:04:08 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: piasa

Pics or it didn’t happen.


3 posted on 08/16/2017 6:05:10 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90

Yup, I call bs


4 posted on 08/16/2017 6:05:56 PM PDT by Professional
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To: piasa

American Jews have nothing to fear from conservatives. The left, on the other hand, is a different story. You think BLM is pro-Israel and not anti-Semitic? I doubt it.


5 posted on 08/16/2017 6:07:13 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: lodi90

+ 100


6 posted on 08/16/2017 6:07:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: piasa

Cernovich - “Nazi”

Milo - “Nazi”

Nah, didn’t happen. Reform Jews once called me a nazi for what?

For LIKING Sarah Palin..!

The smear means NOTHING, now.


7 posted on 08/16/2017 6:07:33 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Professional

Yes, but bs that conforms to the narrative.


8 posted on 08/16/2017 6:08:06 PM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: Professional

These accusations are always reported as factual by the media too. But I think the typical American has heard enough lies and no longer believes this crap.
In a week or two, we will soon find out that this entire protest was started and attended by actors pretending to be white racists. The entire thing smells very staged.


9 posted on 08/16/2017 6:08:35 PM PDT by Professional
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Are they sure these were not leftists? So many fake hate crimes and unidentifiable effigies of Obama being hung out there.

I would have shot them on site. No money is out there to subsidize the white skin of someone, yet many liberal princesses out there support Manning getting is pride subsidized by my taxes for his sex change


10 posted on 08/16/2017 6:10:16 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: Professional

Do they have receipts with nasty comments on it?
I always love that scam.


11 posted on 08/16/2017 6:10:30 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Professional

Who would have ever thought that Nazis would intimidate Jews at worship?

They are just Nazi filth who traded in their Docs for Dockers.


12 posted on 08/16/2017 6:12:02 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: dowcaet

Antifa flag hails from the Nazi National Bolshevicks
and antisionist action. This is ridiculous indeed


13 posted on 08/16/2017 6:12:02 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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Anti jew antifa flag http://4.bp.blogspot.com/—XNXOyyfZuo/UyO0tKSwGoI/AAAAAAAAAUA/3bIKOH4L_zw/s1600/anti-sionist-ac1.jpg


14 posted on 08/16/2017 6:14:48 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: lodi90

Exactly. I don’t believe this for a second.


15 posted on 08/16/2017 6:14:53 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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Even Nazis are not as specific as antifa in their hatred of jews

http://media.rotefahne.eu/2012/11/antideutsch.png


16 posted on 08/16/2017 6:16:35 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: piasa

You are a bit too gullible Piasa. How come not a single pic? And if it did happen, much more likely that it was anti-semetic antifa thugs.


17 posted on 08/16/2017 6:17:15 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
My husband is a Russian/Lithuanian Jew,and we lived in a community with former klansman who treated him decently with no prejudice,however what I find disturbing is the horrible amount of hatred that blacks have for Jews. The biggest reason is the Jewish lawyers that screwed them over,they think all Jews are in that category. I worked with many people of color that adored me but hated my Jewish husband,just because he was Jewish. I gave them lots of angry come to Jesus moments,and asked them what makes them any different than the Hitler's and Nazis of the world. It has gotten much worse,and liberal Jews are too stupid to know who their real enemy is.
18 posted on 08/16/2017 6:17:29 PM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight..)
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Alan Zimmerman, the president of the Reform congregation
......
The key here is that Reform in this instance means liberal. And its posted in a liberal rag.

So maybe just because they guy is liberal testifying for a liberal rag—doesn’t mean the guy didn’t feel threatened.

The problem is that this is a perfect liberal story ... maybe too perfect—like something out of To Kill A Mockingbird.

But we’ll never know for sure.


19 posted on 08/16/2017 6:18:19 PM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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Something is just strange and wrong with these stories
Who are these punks?
What do they have to do with Robert E Lee statues, free speech or Donald Trump , who has a religious Jewish daughter and family?

I’d like to see a concerted effort to research their identities
Something just nags at me they they are plants and provocateurs
They are WAY too obvious and WAY too out of place at these rallies


20 posted on 08/16/2017 6:18:55 PM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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