Posted on 05/21/2021 6:04:39 AM PDT by SJackson
In 2019, hate crimes in LA County against black people fell 13%, hate crimes against gays fell 22%, and hate crimes against Mexicans fell 9%, while hate crimes against Jews rose 18%.
89% of anti-religious hate crimes targeted Jews, only 7% affected Muslims.
If you listened to the media, you would get the opposite impression with coverage that ignored antisemitism to focus on racism, homophobia and Islamophobia. A typical example of what they were ignoring was a Jewish Community Center getting a message “from a man with a Middle Eastern accent that said, ‘I will kill every single Jew. F____ Jews. I will kill every single Jew.’”
Instead, California Democrats moved to impose the ethnic studies curriculum which would embed the teaching of BDS and antisemitic tropes into the educational system.
Jewish protests against this government mandated antisemitism were ignored.
By 2020, the antisemitic wave had moved well beyond words.
During the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (Pentecost), a Black Lives Matter LA hate march marched toward Pan Pacific Park which includes a Holocaust museum. The rally headed by Melina Abdullah, an anti-Israel activist allied with Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam, passed near the Fairfax area and degenerated into a race riot which assaulted Jewish stores and synagogues.
At least one of the synagogues was defaced with graffiti reading, “Free Palestine!”
Aryeh Rosenfeld, an Orthodox Jewish small business owner in the area, described hearing screams of, "F___ Jews" during the riots and looting as he tried to protect his store.
"It’s no coincidence that the riots here escalated in Fairfax, the icon of the Jewish community. I saw the Watts and the Rodney King riots. They never touched a synagogue or house of prayer. The graffiti showed blatant antisemitism. It’s Kristallnacht all over again," Rabbi Shimon Raichik, a Chabad Rabbi in Los Angeles, wrote.
“The attack on our community last night was vicious and criminal. Fairfax is the center of the oldest Jewish community in Los Angeles,” Councilman Paul Koretz said. “As we watched the fires and looting, what didn’t get covered were the anti-Semitic hate crimes and incidents."
"We've been very deliberate in saying that the violence and pain and hurt that's experienced on a daily basis by black folks at the hands of a repressive system should also be visited upon, to a degree, to those who think that they can just retreat to white affluence," Melinda Abdullah, the BLM-LA co-founder, had warned.
Abdullah, a Farrakhan supporter, was also a major backer of the ethnic studies curriculum.
The Shavuot BLM Pogrom saw multiple Jewish synagogues and schools vandalized, and stores attacked and ransacked, with virtually no mention in the media or by Jewish organizations.
The ADL covered up the pogrom by falsely accusing me of engaging in “disinformation”. It smeared Front Page as "a right wing conspiratorial and Islamophobic online magazine", dismissed the the Orthodox Jews who had come face to face with BLM hate, and argued that calling the antisemitic attacks a pogrom "irresponsibly engenders fear and division".
This Shavuot it happened again.
As the Jewish State fought to protect itself against Hamas and PLO terrorists, dueling pro-Israel and pro-terrorist protests and car rallies were held in Los Angeles.
This time the perpetrators of the Shavuot violence were Muslims wearing keffiyahs and brandishing PLO terror flags in one of the pro-terrorist car rally pickup trucks. The location of the violent attacks caught on video was once again in the vicinity of Beverly Grove.
The Muslims reportedly harassed diners, shouting antisemitic slurs, and demanding to know if any of them were Jewish. They then assaulted a group of Persian Jews, whose families had fled Muslim repression in Iran, who, along with an Armenian friend, fought the Islamist thugs.
One of the victims had to be hospitalized.
Another video showed an Orthodox Jew being chased by pro-terrorist car rally pickup trucks flying PLO flags.
Similar pro-terrorist convoys had been linked to antisemitic attacks in the UK including one in which a mother carrying a 4-year-old girl were chased down the street in London.
Pro-terrorist rallies had already exploded into violence against Jews in Toronto, in New York City, and in Washington D.C. In Seattle, Antifa members burned an Israeli flag, chanted in support of the terrorist ‘intifada’ and assaulted a Jewish journalist. A Persian synagogue in Skokie, Illinois was vandalized by a man carrying a PLO terrorist flag. In Bal Harbour, Florida, a Jewish family was harassed by thugs in an SUV screaming, "Die Jew" and "Free Palestine".
Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, whose hate rally was linked to the previous Shavuot pogrom, posted material promoting the anti-Israel protest by the ‘Palestinian Youth Movement’. The PYM protest apparently included the thugs involved in the antisemitic assault over Shavuot.
BLM-LA’s Melina Abdullah posted a talk on Israel by Kwame Ture, the black nationalist racist, who had declared, “The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist, we must take a lesson from Hitler.”
While all sorts of statues have been toppled and public figures canceled, Abdullah and Black Lives Matter Los Angeles will never be touched no matter how much hate they spew.
Or their proxmity to antisemitic violence.
It may be a coincidence that the Jewish holiday of Shavuot in 2020 and 2021 has witnessed antisemitic attacks against Jews in Los Angeles. But it’s more likely that it’s not.
Too many Jewish organizations have failed to stand up to antisemitism.
The silence over the BLM Shavuot pogrom in 2020 helped lead to the violence in 2021.
When antisemitic hate and violence are met with silence, then more of the same will come. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Black Lives Matter, the Groypers or Hamas. Silence is complicity.
And the only thing worse than silence is actively standing with antisemitic movements.
That means defending those movements, covering up for them, and dismissing their hate. As alt-right vans drive around flying PLO flags and BLM backs Hamas, it’s time to recognize the essentially holistic nature of antisemitism whether it involves Israel or Jews anywhere else.
Two years of antisemitic violence in Los Angeles around the same Jewish holiday ought to be a wake-up call about the dangers of covering up antisemitism because it’s politically correct.
Democrats, they hate America, love muslims, hate Jews.
Keep voting Dem, it’s going to be alright. /s
I got kicked off Facebook this week because my post said that Democrats love Arabs because Arabs hate Jews.
“I got kicked off Facebook this week because... “
FB is a sewer of liberalism. You and I are correct, and the liberal tech world hates us for that.
I lived in Los Angeles from Feb 1964 to May 1993.
I worked a number of jobs in accounting & other skill areas—even selling auto parts.
I worked for a number of Jewish owners or supervisors. NEVER was treated badly-—NOT EVER.
Would work gain for a couple of them IF they called, but I am now 81—so NOT expecting the phone to ring.
However-—I learned alot of accounting from them and was ALWAYS treated very well.
Have a CPA tax preparer I have known since 1977, when we both worked at the same firm. I would back him in any situation anytime anywhere.
First home I bought was with a Jewish realtor in 1966. Still remember his name & his wife. They were gems. A number of co-workers I have had over the years were smart, gracious with their knowledge, and always willing to lend a hand.
The politicians who keep letting the foxes into the hen house deserve to be removed & prosecuted.
May you begin your return to sanity in safety.
On Wednesday, the DJC held a pro-Israel rally. The pro-palestinian group found out about it and held a “counter protest” on the opposite street corner.
On the Israel side, there were families, singing, the National Anthem, prayers, and a podium with speakers.
On the Palestinian side, there were hateful signs, chants, bullhorn, and aggression. The pali side pushed through the intersection at Preston onto the median, screaming and yelling, until the police sent the back. They also began lobbying water bottles at us, and when our side threw them back, the biased Dallas Morning News claimed that both sides were throwing things instead of the truth...very much like how the media portrays the missile attacks.
Hamas starts it, Israel responds, but Israel somehow is the bad guy.
Thankfully, an off-duty officer gave us a ride to our vehicle which was several blocks down on the pali side. Because we were still carrying our Israeli and Back The Blue flags, we got yelled at and the middle finger salute.
My son went ahead to get the car while his girlfriend and I followed. In the parking lot, two men cat-called us until a very well-built gentleman, a pastor who had shown up for the Israeli side, stepped out from between the parked cars and asked loudly, “Are you ladies okay?”
My big strapping son saw what was happening and ran back to us. We were both so focused on the small groups coming towards us and we didn’t realize these guys were now just steps behind us.
I spun around to speak with the pastor.
The guys saw him, as well as my son charging over, and kept walking. Thank you, Pastor!
People think it can’t happen here. IT IS ALREADY happening here.
Stand up. Prepare. Raise your voices. Get involved. Supporters of Israel and the Jewish people need to be visible and vocal, because the other side certainly is.
Antisemitic hate crimes rise in Leftist run districts every time there’s an Israeli/Palestinian conflict? Color me shocked!!!!!!!
I was banned by facist book for posting transjordanian
( palestinian ) missiles were falling on their own people
“ In 2019, hate crimes in LA County against black people fell 13%, hate crimes against gays fell 22%, and hate crimes against Mexicans fell 9%, while hate crimes against Jews rose 18%.
89% of anti-religious hate crimes targeted Jews, only 7% affected Muslims.”
Why the silence on the numbers and perpetrators of ‘hate crimes’ committed against White Folks?
Democrats hate Jews. Love Muslims. I think it is because democrats hate the God of the Jews and Christians. What I do NOT understand is why Jews vote overwhelmingly for those who hate them!
You can find the numbers on the FBI site. Similar to blacks, most whites are killed by whites.
I saw on another thread where the media, the local media at least, is blaming Trump for this antisemitism. Sick.
My rhetorical question is why the author didn’t include that info in the article. Our side has got to state all the facts, not fall into the left’s game of omission.
There are huge numbers of ‘hate’ crimes committed against Whites by the left’s pets that go unaddressed. We have to ask those questions or continue to allow the left to paint Whites as the enemy.
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