Peloni: This was a deeply concerning event. The threat being raised against the Jews of America could not be more clear.
They brought bear spray, weapons and masks.
Daniel Greenfield | June 26, 2024
After the hate and violence outside Congregation Adas Torah, a synagogue in the Pico Robertson Jewish community of Los Angeles went viral and became a national news story, the perpetrators and their political allies, including those in the media, scrambled to justify it.
The rationalization put forward are that…
1. The terror supporters were really the victims of Jewish violence
2. The terrorist supporters were not there to attack the synagogue but to protest a real estate fair in Israel taking place there.
As a journalist on the scene, I can address both claims together.
The terrorist supporters came there for a fight. They brought bear spray, skateboards and metal water bottles (commonly brought by Antifa and other rioters because they can be legitimately carried, but also make good weapons) and they weren’t there to skateboard. I saw a guy there with ski goggles. And he wasn’t there to ski either. They wore keffiyahs, initially down as scarves, and then over their faces once they began to attack Jews.
You don’t bring this kind of gear for a peaceful protest, you do it in preparation for a fight.
When you bring this kind of equipment to a hate rally in the center of a Jewish community, you’re there to attack that community. Period.
Terror supporters and their allies have responded to the videos of attacks on Jews by posting videos of violence by Jewish counterprotestors. Most of those videos actually come from after the terror rally when the Hamas supporters were marching down a residential street after being pushed out by police after hours of violent attacks on the Jewish community. Some earlier ones still begin an hour and a half or two after the start. These videos show a response to the terror violence and not the beginning of it.
The Jewish community was disorganized. There was no plan. Young teenage girls showed up with Israeli flags. There were lots of elderly people and some families who arrived. There were attempts at singing and dancing.
I was at the scene early on and I saw the violence begin with multiple confrontations by terror supporters.
When I arrived at the scene, before I interacted with anyone, a Middle Eastern man in a keffiyah began threatening me. In a half hour, I began to see people being sprayed with bear spray by masked keffiyah attackers. And while I didn’t have eyes everywhere, what I saw was that the attackers had a pretty clear agenda to escalate the violence, forming in small masked groups, rushing out for sorties and then returning to use the rest of the hate rally for cover.
As far as the real estate fair pretext, had Jews shown up to a mosque to protest any kind of event, no matter how awful, and the whole thing turned into a riot in the middle of a Muslim neighborhood, not a single person in politics or the media would have accepted that rationale.
As others have pointed out, the real estate fair involved homes in “internationally recognized” parts of Israel, but that doesn’t even matter.
The real estate fair was a pretext. As I mentioned in my article, “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.”
None of those were hosting real estate fairs. The violence spread around the community and around Kosher restaurants.
The majority of the signs and chants at the hate rally did not mention the fair, they were generic hatred of Israel and support for terrorism.
The real estate fair was a pretext, not the premise.
The participants had come spoiling for a fight. They came well prepared for one. They organized and deployed. They staged confrontations. They spewed hate. And they got what they wanted.
Jews need to realize that we are under attack in the USA We must take advantage of the 2nd Ammenant and arm ourselves.
Caroline Glick Glick, in her latest podcast, says that what happened outside Adidas Torah was a full-scale “pogrom.” Npt pnly eas ther synagogue attacked and vandalized only twenty minutes before prayers were scheduled to begin, but numerous Jewish shops and businesses were invaded and looted, and residential homes with Jewish residents were attacked. Jews on the street were attacked and beaten. The police were nowhere to be seen until very late in the pogrom. The only thing that ended it was that many residents resisted the attackers vigorously, which eventually led the pogrom leaders to give an order for the pogromists to break off the attacks and return to their homes. Caroline also claims that Los Angeles’ mayor was informed about the plans for apogrom at least ten days in advance, and gave the organizers “a wink and a nod.” After the pogrom, she described it as “clashes between rival groups of demonstators,” and refused to characterize it as a pogrom or an anti-Jewish riot. She refused to meet with representatives of the Jewish community afterwards. According to Caroline, this met the traditional definition of a pogrom as an anti-Jewish riot carried out with government complicity.
Sebastien, what you say is excellent for a start… But these “massacre supporters” (not simple fighters) should be put in the position of having to constantly look over their respective shoulders.
There are ways of doing this, none of which I will elaborate on at this point.
Sue, investigate, and dox them as individuals. Hire an army of private investigators to follow them around. Get them fired, thrown out of school, deported, jailed. Two can play that game. Get paparazzi to take pictures of them with their families. Where they live and work, relax. Publish them. They are no longer private individuals when they do this. They are public political figures. Legally, fair game. Separate them from their movement. Turn them against each other. What the Bidenistas did to Trump supporters after Jan. 6. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”