Witnesses said a mob of pro-Palestinians attacked a group of Jewish men who were dining at the restaurant. Cell phone video showed a group of men get out of the car and start to attack them while yelling anti-Semitic slurs.

In America, a caravan of antisemitic pro-Palestinians can be caught on camera beating Jews for being–Jews.

?? Tonight pro-Palestinian individuals were driving with megaphones around La Cienega & Beverly (a heavily Jewish area) in Los Angeles and threw objects at Jews at a restaurant table. Some threw things back.

The pro-Palestinian group came to the sidewalk to fight.

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— Sia Kordestani ? (@SiaKordestani) May 19, 2021

In America, a caravan of antisemitic pro-Palestians chased an Orthodox Jewish man–who thankfully got away–because he was a Jew. (Second half of the embedded tweet.)

? UPDATE: Some LA Jewish community leaders are trying to get more information about this disturbing video which is being shared on WhatsApp.

It appears to show an Orthodox Jew being chased by two cars from the pro-Palestinian caravan above.

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— Sia Kordestani ? (@SiaKordestani) May 19, 2021

In America, a caravan of antisemitic pro-Palestinian Arabs went around a Jewish neighborhood in Beverly Hills attacking houses with mezuzahs.

In America, the “Squad” berates Israel on the floor of the House while ignoring completely the terrorism of Hamas, which started this war by shooting hundreds of missiles at Israel. Today, Democrats blocked legislation that would bring sanctions against Hamas and their terror supporters–like Iran.

In America, antisemitic pro-Palestinian “protestors” call for the end of the state of Israel–outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC.

Attendees could be heard shouting anti-Israel slogans throughout the day, including “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

In America, the year of COVID was a year of near-record antisemitic attacks.

In America, Jews are under attack–for being Jews.

In America.

Claim: Matisyahu was not targeted because he was Jewish
No other participant in the Rototom Sunsplash Music Festival was asked to make a political statement of any kind. In fact, one of the other participants was far more controversial than Matisyahu. He was not asked to make any kind of statement, and as far as we know nobody protested his presence in the festival.

One popular Spanish entertainer, the Uruguayan-born Jewish singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, noted in a sardonic tweet that the festival “doesn’t want a Jew like Matisyahu, but says yes to a homophobe like Capleton,” referring to a Jamaican reggae star known for his anti-gay lyrics who’s on the festival program without a peep from the organizers.

We rate this claim False.

Claim: Matisyahu supports Israel’s “violations of Palestinian rights”
In Matisyahu’s own words:

I support peace and compassion for all people. My music speaks for itself, and I do not insert politics into my music. Music has the power to transcend the intellect, ideas, and politics, and it can unite people in the process.

We rate this claim False.

Claim: Matisyahu plays benefit concerts to raise money for AIPAC
Matisyahu appeared onstage at the 2015 AIPAC conference. So did Rita Jahan Foruz, David Broza, Joel Chasnoff, and JewKvox. Now, we’re not Matisyahu’s manager, but we’d bet dollars to doughnuts that AIPAC paid Matisyahu to perform. Because that’s how concerts work.

We rate this claim False.

Claim: Matisyahu plays benefit concerts for the Israeli military
Matisyahu did play at a star-studded benefit for Friends of the IDF, an organization that was founded in 1981 to support and supply services to IDF soldiers and their families. Their mission statement:

IDF initiates and helps support educational, social, cultural and recreational programs and facilities for the young men and women soldiers of Israel who defend the Jewish homeland. FIDF also supports the families of fallen soldiers.

Raising money for soldiers in need of financial assistance, supplying religious items to Jewish soldiers, helping bereaved families cope with their losses, or helping with the educational costs of a soldier is hardly supporting the military. FIDF supports the inviduals beneath the uniform. The FIDF is a private, charitable organization that supplies these services and more to individuals–not the IDF.

By the way, Matisyahu last played at the FIDF concert in–wait for it–2007. If the BDS crowd has to reach back eight years to find something to use against him, then they’re really doing it wrong.

We rate this claim False.

The anti-Israel BDSers are trying very hard to make these accusations a legitimate attack on an American Jewish singer who happens to support Israel. In doing so, they are trying to make it okay to intimidate Americans into having opinions that only fit the anti-Israel, anti-Zionist BDS mindset. This is unacceptable on many levels, not least of which is the cherished American value of freedom of expression. It seems that more and more Jewish artists and actors are being hounded by the anti-BDSers these days–Scarlett Johansson and Sodastream, anyone? Matisyahu is the latest Jew being attacked for having the temerity to be pro-Israel. Most of the BDS attempts fail miserably. We expect this one will, too. Matisyahu’s concert will go on as scheduled.

If you can’t make the concert in Ithaca, just enjoy the video of last year’s AIPAC concert. We certainly did.

Because a news piece softly creeping left its bias while I was sleeping

Israeli Police Officers Kill Two Palestinian Men

Wait, what? Why on earth did Israeli police officers kill two innocent Palestinian men?

JENIN, West Bank — Two Palestinian men were fatally shot by the Israeli police after attacking officers with knives, one at a contested shrine in the West Bank and the other at a checkpoint near East Jerusalem, a police spokeswoman said Saturday.

Ohhhhhhh…. they attacked the officers and tried to kill them. So they were shot. And died. I guess that totally justified a biased headline like that. Say, what does the rest of the story say? Well, first the AP has to put in a paragraph that isn’t about the attack, so that vital details beyond the second or third paragraph will drop off your “World News” section. Then they have to make it look like the Israelis shouldn’t have shot the knife-wielding attacker.

They were the latest in a recent spate of attacks by Palestinians who appear to be acting alone and without the backing or instruction of any organization. They have carried out several deadly attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank using vehicles, knives and guns in recent months.

The first shooting took place at the Zayyim checkpoint on the outskirts of East Jerusalem late Friday. A police spokeswoman, Luba Samri, said a man identified as Ali Abu Ghannam, 17, ran toward officers with a knife at another checkpoint, then ran to the Zayyim checkpoint and threatened officers there. They shot him when he tried to stab them, she said, but Palestinian medics who arrived later said it was not clear what had taken place.

The police later released a photograph of a cleaver and what appeared to be a kitchen knife tipped with blood that they said Mr. Abu Ghannam had wielded.

The second shooting occurred on Saturday near the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, a site revered by Jews, Muslims and Christians as the ancient burial place of Abraham and his wife, Sarah. Ms. Samri said a 20-year-old Palestinian man was shot by one officer after he stabbed another officer, 19, in the head and chest. The wounded officer was treated at a hospital. Ms. Samri did not identify either the injured policeman or his assailant, and Dr. Hijazi Abu Mazyar, an official with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, said his group had not yet ascertained the dead man’s identity.

They couldn’t spin the second attack, so they went on to talk about the one and only Jewish terrorist attack on Muslim worshipers. Because an attack in 1994 is totally relevant in 2015.

Reuters managed to get the headline right. But they tell a very different story than the AP.

Israeli forces kill two knife-wielding Palestinians – police
Israeli security forces killed two knife-wielding Palestinian attackers in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on Saturday, police said.

In the West Bank city of Hebron, a Palestinian was shot dead by a paramilitary Israeli border police patrol after stabbing one of its men in the head and chest, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. The injured policeman was taken to hospital.

Samri described the dead Palestinian as being around 20 years old. No further details on his identity were immediately available.

Earlier, 17-year-old Palestinian Ali Abu Ghannam attacked Israeli border police with a cleaver at a checkpoint in East Jerusalem and then fled, with troops giving chase and firing warning shots in the air, Samri said.

Look at that. Warning shots and everything. Amazing how the AP didn’t think that was a necessary detail. But then, the AP has an agenda, and it’s anti-Israel.

So does the New York Times, but hey… they’re “the paper of record”. All the news, and all that.

Shyeah.

Oh, fuck you, Russia: Russia sells S-300 missiles to Iran. The only reason Iran wants them is to stop Israel or the U.S. from being able to take out Iranian nuclear weapons plants. Russia shrugs and says that there’s nothing to worry about. The chants of “Death to Israel”? No biggie. An Iranian general calling the destruction of Israel “non-negotiable“? Oh, don’t sweat it.

Israel (among others) downgrades the representative it’s sending to Russia to commemmorate the USSR’s victory over Nazi German? Well, that’s something to get angry about.

When even VOX says the Iran deal sucks, it sucks: Even uber-lefty “explainer” “news” site thinks the Iran deal is bad. that should tell you something. Also, this.

The way the president has set this up, he has incentivized Iran to pocket huge benefits up front.

In Wisconsin, being conservative and Republican is illegal: National Review profiles the Wisconsin “John Doe” laws, that purport to be looking for illegal money in politics but are actually intimidating conservative groups. They are secret trials that you are not allowed to mention to anyone. It’s KGB Russia in one of the most progressive states in America. But don’t think you’re safe in a red state. Here in Virginia, a Marine was arrested because of a Facebook post.

Ending on a hopeful note: David Cameron on anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Read it all.

That was then.

This is now.

Context. BIG context. The New York Times elides a threat by Hezbollah to invade Israel in the next conflict.

Nasrallah said in the interview that Hezbollah was ready to fight a new war against Israel in Lebanon and renewed a threat to invade the Galilee region of northern Israel. Hezbollah fighters “must be prepared”, he said.

“When the resistance (Hezbollah) leadership… asks you (fighters)… to enter into Galilee, that means the resistance must be ready to enter into Galilee and to go even beyond the Galilee.”

Here’s how the Times spins that.

The attack, targeting two vehicles traveling in the Syrian portion of the Golan Heights, came days after Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said Israeli strikes in Syria constituted serious aggression and that Syria and its allies had a right to respond.

The interview where Nasrallah threatened to invade the Galilee was broadcast days before the missile attack. The missile attack killed Hezbollah commanders–and also an Iranian general. Gee. Whatever could an Iranian general be doing on the Syrian border with Israel, we wonder?

Watch for the Iranian retaliation. They work fast, too. Last week, an Argentinian prosecutor said that Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez covered up the Iranian role in the bombing of the Jewish Center in Buenos Aires in 1994. He was found murdered in his apartment on the day he was to testify about the coverup.

But don’t worry, the Times will definitely blame any Iranian and Hezbollah attacks on Israel. For killing “fighters” on her border with Syria.

The Druze police officer who lost his life in Tuesday’s terror attack is being honored by the ultra-Orthodox community, which was hit the hardest in the deadly terror attack on a synagogue, and the community is urging Haredi youths to attend the young officer’s funeral service.

The ultra–Orthodox community determined Wednesday that Master-Sergeant Zidan Sif, the Druze policeman who died from wounds sustained in Tuesday morning’s synagogue terror attack was a ‘Righteous Among the Nations’, and many urged their public to attend his funeral, even arranging free transportation from the Jerusalem International Convention Center.

This is why the “apartheid” label is such a lie. Most Israeli Jews do not hate Arabs. They want to get along in peace and harmony. Instead, the Jews of Israel are being attacked in synagogues, at bus stops, and on the streets–by the real people who want apartheid. Actually, that’s not true. They want there to be no Jews at all in Israel, the land that made us Jews.

Risha Segal (28), a haredi student and activist, who lives near the Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem, was one of the people who posted the initiative online. “We are calling for widespread solidarity throughout Israel, with an emphasis on gratitude,” he said. “We will not be ungrateful and will show our thanks for those who sacrificed their lives for us. This is one of the most important principles in Judaism.”

And this is why Israel will survive. Because we’re better than the subhumans who take axes and machetes and murder men at morning prayers in a house of worship.

Update: The funeral picture that says it all.

Four people were killed Tuesday morning when two terrorists brutally attacked worshippers in a synagogue and yeshiva in the Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem. Seven people were wounded, including two police officers.

At around 7am, the terrorists – wielding massive knives and a gun – entered the Kehilat Yaakov synagogue on Harav Shimon Agasi Street, which includes both a synagogue and yeshiva (rabbinical seminary), and carried out attacks in more than one location.

Three Americans are among the dead. One was a dual British citizen. All were rabbis.

Make no mistake, these attacks are directly due to the Palestinian incitement about the Temple Mount. Yehuda Glick’s shooter called him an enemy of al-Aqsa. And Mahmoud Abbas is just stoking the flames by insisting that Israelis are “invading” the Temple Mount–and accusing Israelis of incitement. You mean incitement like this?

“The presidency also denounces all violent acts no matter who their source is, and demands an end to the ongoing incursions into the Al-Aksa Mosque and the provocative acts by Israeli settlers as well as incitement by some Israeli ministers,” the statement added.

Yeah, that’s some condemnation, especially since no Israelis are setting foot inside al-Aqsa. But terrorists have, on many occasions, attacked Jews at prayer.

The attackers were later killed in a shootout with police. Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Iraeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld Rosenfeld said: “Everybody was praying peacefully without any disruptions whatsoever and then all of a sudden the terrorists go into a place of worship and peace and turn it into a killing nightmare.”

Police confirmed that the slain included Rabbi Moshe Twersky. He is the son of Boston-born Isadore Twersky, who founded Harvard University’s Center for Jewish Studies. Rabbi Kelman Levin, Rabbi Avraham Goldberg and Rabbi Aryeh Kopinsky were also killed, according to an announcement made by the synagogue. Britain’s Foreign Office confirmed that one of the four victims was a dual U.K.-Israeli national.

The AP can’t whitewash this one. So Operation Downplay is in effect. Note the passive verb in the headline. “Dead”–not “killed”.

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1. FOUR DEAD IN ATTACK ON JERUSALEM SYNAGOGUE
Prime Minister Netanyahu vows to respond harshly to the killing of worshippers which Palestinian President Abbas has condemned.

And here’s the AP lede. Note the continued concentration on the Palestinian viewpoint.

Two Palestinian cousins stormed a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday, attacking worshippers with meat cleavers and a gun during morning prayers and killing four people before they were shot dead by police.

The attack, the deadliest in Jerusalem in six years, ratcheted up fears of sustained violence in the city, which is already on edge amid soaring tensions over its most contested holy site.

Remember, those “soaring tensions” are lies that Jews are “invading” al-Aqsa. And the narrative is that Jews praying at the Temple Mount is somehow wrong–because Muslims put their mosques on top of Judaism’s holiest site. But that’s a topic for another post.

Pray for the speedy recovery of the wounded, and comfort for the families of the murdered men.