What I Saw at a Terrorist Rally Outside a Synagogue

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

Thirty minutes after Hamas supporters first set up their operation outside a Los Angeles synagogue, they maced their first Jew. And the Los Angeles police did nothing.

Not until an hour into the terrorist rally outside a synagogue, did the LAPD finally step in, pushing back masked Jihad supporters in keffiyeh terror scarves from the entrance of Congregation Adas Torah (Congregation of the Bible) which they had occupied.

And then the mob, chanting calls for “intifada” and the destruction of Israel, moved outward to target two smaller synagogues attended by Persian Jewish refugees from Islamic terror in Iran.

“Billions of us will come and kill you,” a heavily accented Middle Eastern man in a keffiyeh unprompted rasped at me as I walked up. Only dozens had actually shown up, but they made up for it with bullhorns, robotic chants, and assaults in the middle of a Jewish neighborhood.

The Jewish counterprotesters had come waving American and Israeli flags while the other side was a sea of terrorist flags. A man wore an Antifa cap, another had come in ski goggles during 90-degree heat, while others toted bear spray, metal bottles, and other implements of violence.

The Jewish community members included older men and women, as well as families, while the Hamas contingent was mostly young and many were masked. A pair of rabbis led a melodic song that could hardly be heard over the harsh clatter of the hateful terror chants.

Despite knowing that a terrorist rally was planned outside a synagogue, the LAPD had allowed the terrorist supporters to take over the entire sidewalk leaving only a thin lane for attendees to walk through to get inside. The LAPD did little to interfere with the terrorist supporters, but did block Jewish counterprotesters from reaching their own synagogue. The police also did nothing as clumps of masked Hamas supporters broke away from the synagogue and began confronting, threatening, and attacking Jewish community members on the street.

LAPD officers did not stir as confrontations escalated into assaults, shoving into mace and bear spray. Jewish community members rushed to provide water bottles to the affected. Only after several such incidents did the LAPD finally bring in reinforcements and push the Hamas supporters away from the synagogue entrance (dispersing them to harass and threaten two other synagogues) while also clearing Jewish families away from the other side of the street who had been peacefully waving flags near a children’s school.

The terrorist hate rally spread outside three synagogues, Congregation Adas Torah, Chabad Persian Youth, and Congregation Ateret Israel (Glory of Israel), and the confrontations in the center of the street continued. There were running battles along the large commercial street with violent assaults outside a Kosher luncheonette and running battles down a residential street in the Jewish neighborhood.

The terrorist hate rally was not an aberration, It’s become the new normal.

On Thursday, Hamas supporters showed up at Congregation Shaarey Zedek (Gates of Righteousness) in the San Fernando Valley formerly attended by Ben Shapiro, yelling abuse at parents taking their children to school. Other Jewish schools have been similarly targeted.

Beginning with the assault on the Museum of Tolerance when it was screening a documentary on the Oct 7 massacre to the violence at UCLA, it has played out this way for 8 months.

The LAPD has consistently failed to secure protest zones, to separate different groups of protesters and to prevent violence, and only steps in when it escalates past a set point. That point usually comes when the Jewish counterprotesters start fighting back. And then the LAPD begins arresting both sides while politicians, including Mayor Bass, deplore the violence.

Media accounts, especially from the Los Angeles Times, CNN and the JTA, falsely characterize the violence as coming from the Jewish counterprotesters rather than the terrorist supporters.

I had previously heard first person accounts from people who were assaulted while the police and security at UCLA did nothing, but now I saw it for myself. And after 8 months of the same thing, it’s hard to believe that it’s simple incompetence or that a major urban police force has no idea how to handle the same kind of protests and is incapable of figuring out how to do so.

Especially when it’s been standard procedure by other urban police forces.

The LAPD is clearly aware of the potential for violence because it sends out offices in riot gear. But rather than engaging in proactive policing to prevent violence, they stand passively and wait for orders from higher up before taking any action. This is not normal policing during protests and counter protests when the standard doctrine is for police to set up barriers and stand between groups of protesters before they bring out the riot gear. But the LAPD brings out the riot gear, allows the radicals free rein and waits as long as possible before taking any action.

Why is this happening? I previously reported that Mayon Karen Bass is a close political ally of BLM LA boss Melina Abdullah, who has backed the pro-terrorist campaign against Jews. When Jews were attacked at UCLA, Democrat members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a motion to fund legal support for the terrorist supporters. The resolution to use taxpayer money to fund legal defenses for antisemites was put forward by Supervisor Lindsey Horvath who ‘represents’ CD3 where the synagogue hate riot was taking place. After all the antisemitic violence at UCLA, the only one facing serious charges is a Jewish student.

The Democrat leadership of Los Angeles does not stand with the Jewish communities being targeted by hate, but with the antisemitic mobs surrounding synagogues.

Behind the masks, keffiyehs and the terrorist flags is the new Democratic Party.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading,  Daniel Greenfield

The One Democrat Who Says Columbus Officer Who Shot Ma’Khia Bryant Was In the Right

Julio Rosas  @Julio_Rosas1 Apr 26, 2021

Rep. Val Demings (D-FL), the former Police Chief of Orlando, broke with other Democrats and Black Lives Matter to defend the Columbus police officer who shot 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant while she was attempting to stab a black girl during an altercation. During her interview on "Face the Nation," Demings said the officer did what he was trained to do, which is to protect himself and the life of others who face immediate danger.........To Read More...

 

Police Work and the Constitution: A Delicate Balance

By Rich Kozlovich 

On March 21, 2021 Bob Unruh posted this article,  Sheriff sued for program that 'harasses' people who haven't committed crimes, saying: 

Deputy confirms intent is to 'make their lives miserable'

As examples of abuse he then uses the Tom Cruise movie, 'Minority Report' about arresting 'future criminals', although they hadn't yet committed a crime, and, "2001: A Space Odyssey," it was HAL, the "Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic" computer", who is ever present, ever watching, and as it turns out, ever scheming.  

 

The article shows the police got carried away with themselves, in effect being judge, jury and executioner.  Harassing people and executing searches without warrants, and generally ignoring the law they're supposed to enforce.  That's not the system we live in, and clearly something needed to be done, so they sued.

 I have to say I really have mixed emotions over this.  On the surface I can easily say I really don't like this kind of thing, and I think most will feel the same, if for no other reason so much of what they did was blatantly illegal.  

But what happens when someone moves into the neighborhood who is disruptive, troublesome, and potentially involved in drugs or other criminal activity that no one can prove?  What then?   

I know of such a case.  A biker, not a gang member, moved into a house in a quiet suburban community, and over night his biker friends were riding up and down the street on their very noisy bikes.  Instead of "walking turf", it seemed like they were "riding turf".  Back and forth, stop sign to stop sign, going nowhere, but making it clear the street was owned by them and they were going to do what they wanted to do whether anyone liked all that noise or not.  And the people living there didn't like it, and after the first week they started calling the police.  

As it turns out the owner of the house had some history with police, and rumor had it that he was involved with drugs, and it wasn't unusual for a police car to be sitting a few houses down from the owner's house just watching.  After about five years the owner ended up in jail, the house went up for sale, and the community was grateful for the attention paid to this situation by the police.  

Let's face it, more often than not the police know who the problem people are in a community.  More often than not they're deliberately paying attention to them, their friends, and what they're all doing.  More often than not these people need to be watched.  And, more often than not they'll be caught committing some crime or other.  It is unfortunate when that attention goes awry as in the case presented in this article, but let's not kid ourselves; there are people the police need to watch because they're doing things that need watching.  

How far should the police go in these kinds of cases?  I don't want to get carried away restricting the police, and I don't want the police to turn into a Gestapo, so what's the solution?  

Watching the police is the job of the rest of us. And every once in a while the police, the government bureaucrats and the elected officials, must be reminded, on a regular basis, they work for us, not the other way around, and they derive their authority from the citizenry, and that authority can be revoked.

The balance between effective law enforcement and the Constitution is a delicate one, and it's gone back and forth over the years, but community involvement makes sure that balance doesn't shift too far either way.  It will never be perfect, but once it becomes established the community is concerned, paying attention, and prepared to deal with any imbalance, a balance ensues we can live with.  

People are making a huge mistake about the Kenosha shooting

August 27, 2020

The Democrats’ military forces, aka Black Lives Matter and Antifa, are destroying Kenosha. They justify their violence by claiming Jacob Blake was unarmed. People who don’t know the law assume that the police can prove their innocence only if Blake had a weapon. That’s not the legal or the practical standard.

The law requires only that the police reasonably believed that Blake intended to use a lethal weapon. This standard exists regardless of whether or not Blake had either the intention or the weapon.

In Kenosha, the police had been called to the house for a domestic violence problem. These cases are invariably the most dangerous calls police answer.

The police learned while heading to the house that Blake, despite the pictures of him hugging some of his six children, was not a nice man. There are criminal records for a man matching his name, address, and age. These records show there were warrants against him for domestic abuse, and sexual assault on a minor, and had been arrested in the past for waving around a gun, and had resisted arrest in the past, injuring a police officer.

By now, we have a good idea about the last few seconds before the shooting. Blake was violently resisting the police. We now know that (a) the police tased him unsuccessfully and (b) he had a knife.

Despite the police having their guns drawn and their repeated orders for him to put down the knife and hit the ground, Blake raced around the front of the car, heading to the driver’s door. The police kept yelling at him to stop, but he ignored them. One officer even grabbed Blake to keep him from reaching into the car...........To Read More....