Crime Pro-Palestinian protest outside LA synagogue criticized as ‘antisemitic’ after street fights with pro-Israel protesters

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Pro-Palestinian protest outside LA synagogue criticized as ‘antisemitic’ after street fights with pro-Israel protesters​


A pro-Palestinian protest held outside a Los Angeles synagogue devolved into chaotic street violence with pro-Israel counterprotesters on Sunday in an incident that several officials, including President Joe Biden, criticized as antisemitic.

The Los Angeles Police Department said it responded to two protests Sunday in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Pico-Robertson, just south of Beverly Hills. Videos taken at the scene show police pushing pro-Palestinian protesters away from the entrance of the Adas Torah temple, an Orthodox synagogue.

Chants of “Free, free Palestine - from the river to the sea,” and “long live intifada,” could be heard from among the pro-Palestinian protesters. Participants blocked traffic, and video from the scene shows multiple altercations broke out in the middle of the street and on sidewalks.

Officers arrested a person with a “spiked flag,” the police department told CNN. The person was issued a citation for possessing a prohibited item during a protest and released from custody.

At a Monday news conference, Los Angeles Police Department Interim Chief Dominic Choi said detectives are investigating “all acts of violence.”

He added that while residents are “OK” to protest peacefully, “violence will not be tolerated.”

At the news conference, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said she plans on meeting with the city attorney’s office to talk about the potential for permits for protests, people wearing masks at protests and “establishing clear lines of demarcation between what is legal and what is not.”

Bass said she will also convene a meeting of leaders of houses of worship and cultural centers to discuss how to protect sacred spaces and keep congregants safe. Police will enhance their partnership with Jewish public safety organizations to review threats to the community, the mayor said.

Protests around the Israel-Gaza war have become common across the United States since October, but Democratic officials sharply criticized Sunday’s event for its violence and for taking place at a Jewish institution.

“I’m appalled by the scenes outside of Adas Torah synagogue in Los Angeles. Intimidating Jewish congregants is dangerous, unconscionable, antisemitic, and un-American,” Biden said on X. “Americans have a right to peaceful protest. But blocking access to a house of worship – and engaging in violence – is never acceptable.”

The violent clashes outside the Adas Torah synagogue in Los Angeles are appalling,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said on X. “There is no excuse for targeting a house of worship. Such antisemitic hatred has no place in California.”

“Targeting a synagogue, or targeting the members of a synagogue, is anti-Semitic,” US Rep. Ted Lieu of California said on X. “I strongly condemn the Pro-Palestinian demonstrators who engaged in anti-Semitism by targeting Adas Torah Synagogue and/or its congregants. Anyone who engaged in violence should be prosecuted.”

Jewish and Muslim advocacy groups say the war has led to skyrocketing hate crimes and bias incidents. The Anti-Defamation League reports that antisemitic incidents were up 140% in 2023 compared to the prior year. And the Council on American-Islamic Relations said last year marked the highest number of anti-Muslim bias reports it has received in nearly three decades.

On Sunday, Bass said in a statement, “I want to be clear that Los Angeles will not be a harbor for antisemitism and violence. Those responsible for either will be found and held accountable.”

This people care this much about the Israeli vs Palestine conflict than they should go to Israel or Palestine and fight for them. They show more concern for other countries than the one they live in.
 
What i find weird is that many Jews distance themselves from Israel's criminal policy with Gaza.

Yet it is western powers that are pushing for criminalising calls for Israel boycotts and coining many anti Israel demos as antisemite.

Really shows what fringe of the Israeli establishment the west is pandering to.
 
lol at karen bass stating that she blatantly wants to restrict rights. Permits to protest? Sorry, first amendment-take a back seat.

The only time a permit should be required is when streets are going to be shut down or maybe when planning to take over a large, public area such as a park or school campus.


Masks required to protest for covid or prohibiting masks to hide identity?

And clear demarcations? Well, there are laws already in existence to outline what is and isn’t legal so why do you need to discuss it?
 
How is it not antisemitic? People just trying to go to their place of worship and they have to deal with a bunch of virtue signaling attention whores. A lot of this pro Hamas stuff in America has been very antisemitic and the people participating should think long and hard about who they are supporting because Hamas doesn't give two shits about them nor do they want them to live free.
 
How is it not antisemitic? People just trying to go to their place of worship and they have to deal with a bunch of virtue signaling attention whores. A lot of this pro Hamas stuff in America has been very antisemitic and the people participating should think long and hard about who they are supporting because Hamas doesn't give two shits about them nor do they want them to live free.


Exactly - doing it outside a fucking synagogue is as anti-semitic as it gets. If there was an anti-Islam protest outside a Mosque, I'd view it exactly the same.
 
Well church's and other places of worship should have the same laws for protest as abortion clinics. Actually all business should have the same laws if you are going to protest in front of them.

And the same consequences if you break them

Well it appears I spoke to soon. Checking it's seems they are. At the federal level and should be at the state level.

"At the federal level in the United States, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE), makes it an offense to use intimidation or physical force – such as forming a blockade – in order to prevent a person from entering a facility which provides reproductive healthcare or a place of worship."
 
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Why protest in front of a synagogue though? Because the people are Jewish and Israel is a Jewish country?

I get that there's frustration with how the war is going but aiming protests towards random Jews probably isn't the best way to go about this. Protest in front of the Israeli embassy or something.

This is like protesting in front of a mosque because you are against ISIS. Just an ignorant way to go about it.
 
Why protest in front of a synagogue though? Because the people are Jewish and Israel is a Jewish country?
Precisely. Who'd a thunk it that people protesting for Hamas are gigantic antisemitic pieces of shit?
 
Ethnic cleansing is fucked and the Israeli government is demonic but probably best to protest the American government for helping fund genocide over some rando jews.
 
As Israelis literally spit on Christians… oh the irony.
yes, a few ultra orthodox (who were arrested) assholes spitting on the ground near christians making a religious pilgrimage represent israel............you are indeed shameless in your "reporting". you don't care that israel is offers the greatest religious freedom in the middle east. but you'll be quick to report on ultra orthodox spitting and getting arrested and pretend that is israel. for some reason, you want people to believe israel is made up of ultra orthodox.
 
Occupy Wall St= Bernie Sanders supporters= BLM supporters= Palestine supporters

Same commies rebranded each time to fit the current narrative

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Why protest in front of a synagogue though? Because the people are Jewish and Israel is a Jewish country?

I get that there's frustration with how the war is going but aiming protests towards random Jews probably isn't the best way to go about this. Protest in front of the Israeli embassy or something.

This is like protesting in front of a mosque because you are against ISIS. Just an ignorant way to go about it.
- Yeah. I against that genocide.
But i wond't go bother people, that dont have anything to do with.
 
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