Posted on 01/01/2023 3:55:38 PM PST by Twotone
American Jews are feeling vulnerable. The 2018 Tree of Life and 2019 Poway Chabad house synagogue shootings; the Colleyville, Texas hostage standoff in January of this year; and arrests of those threatening to harm Jews in synagogues in New York, New Jersey, and Michigan in recent months contribute to this unease. Coupled with largely unpunished street violence against Jews in Brooklyn and social-media threats worsened by Kanye West’s anti-Semitic ravings, Jews have had to bolster security measures at houses of worship. While President Biden recently announced an interagency taskforce to combat anti-Semitism, and while the governor and mayor of New York, along with Senator Chuck Schumer, recently met Jewish leaders at New York’s Lincoln Square Synagogue to announce a new Hate and Bias Prevention Unit, many Jews have recently decided that the only ones who can defend them are themselves. Increasing numbers of congregants are attending services while armed, often with the foreknowledge of the rabbi and the synagogue security committee.
Surprisingly, politicians in some heavily Jewish jurisdictions are trying to make these self-protection efforts illegal. A federal judge temporarily struck down a provision of New York’s gun law that makes it a felony for a person with a concealed-carry license to possess a firearm in places of worship, while Montgomery County, Maryland, recently passed a similar law. These laws not only limit an individual’s choice to bring a weapon to synagogue but also make it difficult for individuals bringing weapons to coordinate with the synagogue security committee. Board members of a synagogue allowing congregants to carry weapons in violation of the law could find themselves personally liable, and insurance policies might not cover anything that goes wrong in such circumstances.
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
Good steps.
I have written several articles for JPFO.
Step 1: Stop voting for Democrats.
Step 2: Arm yourselves.
Ditto to the Nth power, where N is a large number. What part about doing the same thing and expecting different results to they not understand? The DemocRAT party IS the party of anti semitism and always be.
Thank you. Yes. Some of the biggest proponents of the 2nd Amendment are Jewish Americans.
But the article is correct to call out that Jews everywhere need to keep their guard up. They are always eventually blamed in some fashion for G_d knows what.
This is from the Manhattan Institute. Likely not familiar with details of Jewish communities.
“…many Jews have recently decided that the only ones who can defend them are themselves. Increasing numbers of congregants are attending services while armed, often with the foreknowledge of the rabbi and the synagogue security committee.”
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We started doing this in South Texas over 15 years ago…and the libs’ heads exploded. We’re still doing it at our shul, and don’t give a rat’s ass what the libs say.
I am a life member — Thank you
KC
JEWS (I HAVE AN EYE PROBLEM HENCE THE CAPS) HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH FIREARMS. JINOS, BECAUSE THEY HAVE PLACED LIBERALISM BEFORE G-D (WAY BEFORE G-D IN MOST CASES) ARE ANTI-2A-RKBA.
JINOS HAVE COMPLETELY DESTROYED THE MYTH OF JEWISH INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORITY. THE MOST CURSORY EXAMINATION OF HUMAN HISTORY CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES THAT NO GROUP OF PEOPLE HAS MORE NEEDED ARMS FOR SELF DEFENSE THAN THE JEWISH PEOPLE, YET WERE GENERALLY BARRED FROM POSSESSING THEM THROUGH THE AGES REGARDLESS OF THEIR GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION.
WHEN JEWS CAME TO AMERICA THEY MUST HAVE BEEN STRUCK DUMB BY THE BILL OF RIGHTS, PARTICULARLY THE RKBA! COULD IT POSSIBLY BE TRUE? YES. IF THEY HAD THE MEANS THEY WOULD HAVE ARMED THEMSELVES IMMEDIATELY. IF THEY HAD NOT THE MEANS THEY WOULD HAVE SCRIMPED ON FOOD, CLOTHING, SHELTER, WARMTH IN THE WINTER, INDENTURED A CHILD OR MORE, OR THEMSELVES!, BUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE THEY WOULD BE AT THE GUNSMITH’S SHOP!
“I’D LIKE ONE OF THESE, TWO OF THOSE, YA GOT HIS IN A BIGGER CALIBER? AND AMMO, PLENTY OF AMMO!” ‘CAUSE THEY KNEW WHERE THEY’D BEEN! THEN THEY WORKED OFF THE DEBT FOR THEIR CHILDREN!
NOW, EXCEPT FOR POLITICIANS, THE MOST ANTI-GUN FOLKS IN AMERICA ARE THE PAMPERED, BRAINLESS, DESCENDED FROM JEWS (BUT ASHAMED OF IT) BAGEL EATERS (WHO CALL THEMSELVES JEWS BECAUSE OF THAT!), WHO WORSHIP LIBERALISM AND NOT G-D. G-DLESS MORONS, AND SMUG ABOUT IT!
OF COURSE THEY WOULD OPPOSE ARMED SELF DEFENSE FOR JEWS (AS WELL AS EVERYONE ELSE). A WRETCHED SLAVE ALWAYS DOES THEIR MASTERS’ BIDDING.
I DESPISE THEM MOST, BECAUSE DESPITE MY EVERY EFFORT, THEY HAVE MADE ME HATE THEM!
I’VE NOT SEEN YOU HERE BEFORE. I HOPE TO DO SO AGAIN.
SHAVUAH TOV!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Thank you for posting that. It saves me from doing it although I have referenced the good people two or three times here over the years.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency article——
Some Jews ‘do not comply’ with New York gun laws to protect their synagogues
By Jacob Henry
........But some Jews are taking another tack: ignoring the law altogether.
The New York Jewish Week has spoken to Jews in New York City and the Lower Hudson Valley who say they are continuing to carry concealed weapons at shul. Their goal, most say, is to protect their synagogues at a time of increased antisemitism.
THANKS! UPLIFTING ARTICLE.
But but but the liberals’ feeeeeeeeeelings...........
It seems the preception of the Jews, at least until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, was that of an easy and unprotesting victim. How else to explain the Holocaust (with a few notable exceptions such as the Warsaw Ghetto uprising) when Jews boarded the trains without a fight and marched obidently into the showers. This view of Jews as weak and willing victims persists and, along with the hatred stoked by the peddlers of anti-semitism, makes them seem to be an easy target. Jews need to stand up and protect themselves. They need to send a message that they are not your grandfather’s Jews.
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