LOS ANGELES, California — Professional-Palestinian protesters vandalized buildings close to synagogues, in addition to a close-by church, with anti-Israel graffiti on Friday evening after demonstrating towards President Joe Biden at a close-by fundraiser on Friday evening.
Devastating to get up to seek out my Westwood neighborhood stuffed w/swastikas & antisemitic vandalism left by a pro-Hamas mob after an evening of genocidal antisemitic chants. On the 2nd Night time of Hanukkah, Jews in LA have been terrorized. Hate speech and vandalism are crimes, not protest. pic.twitter.com/oqH7jUWFhE
— Sam Yebri (@samyebri) December 9, 2023
As Breitbart Information reported, the protesters gathered outdoors a fundraiser close to Beverly Hills, waving indicators that included “from the river to the ocean, Palestine can be free” — a name for Israel to be destroyed.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 8: Protesters denounce the Biden administration’s help of Israel, which has killed 1000’s of Palestinian civilians to date in its warfare towards Hamas in Gaza, on December 8, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. U.S. President Joe Biden and first woman Jill Biden plan to attend six fundraising occasions and conferences between them within the Los Angeles space over the weekend. Greater than 17,487 Palestinians, together with greater than 6,600 youngsters, are reported to have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza because the Palestinian group Hamas attacked Israel, killing roughly 1,200 on October 7. After a a number of day stop fireplace to alternate hostages and prisoners, the Israel Protection Forces (IDF) have resumed its bombing and floor combating, now intensifying in southern Gaza after weeks of warning individuals to flee there to flee Israeli bombing within the north. (Picture by David McNew/Getty Pictures)
Some demonstrators additionally carried out Islamic prayers.
LOS ANGELES, CA – DECEMBER, 8 2023: on December 8, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Occasions by way of Getty Pictures)
From there, a number of the protesters went to Westwood, close to the College of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and marched down Wilshire Boulevard towards an space the place there are a number of synagogues, notably Sinai Temple. A few of them attacked police. The Los Angeles Occasions reported:
Police declared an “illegal meeting” at about 5:45 p.m, however [Holmby Park] wasn’t deserted for an additional hour, when protesters spilled onto adjoining streets — marching close to entrances to the Los Angeles Nation Membership on Comstock Avenue close to Wilshire Boulevard.
Whereas some officers mentioned they have been hit with eggs and water by demonstrators, there have been no reported accidents or arrests as of seven:45 p.m. Some partitions alongside Wilshire have been tagged with graffiti, and protesters blocked and delayed visitors at varied factors alongside the thoroughfare.
The Occasions didn’t report that the “partitions” that have been vandalized have been reverse synagogues.
Protests led to the defacing of a number of Westwood companies. Graffiti messages resembling “Free Gaza” and “From the River to the Sea” have been sprayed on an condominium constructing on Wilshire Boulevard reverse Sinai Temple. https://t.co/XT9VSjQpnY pic.twitter.com/WyIZDVGiwg
— Valley Present (@valley_current) December 9, 2023
Partitions reverse Sinai Temple and Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel have been vandalized with anti-Israel slogans. A public bus shelter reverse Sinai Temple was additionally vandalized with the slogan “Free Gaza”; it had not been cleaned up as of Saturday afternoon.
As well as, close by Westwood United Methodist Church was vandalized.
Westwood United Methodist Church, the day after being vandalized by a pro-Palestinian mob on December 8, 2023. Volunteers cleaned up the slogans “IDF OUT” and “CEASEFIRE NOW.” Los Angeles, California, December 9, 2023 (Joel Pollak / Breitbart Information)
An area lawyer, Sam Yebri, led a volunteer cleanup crew on Saturday morning. He additionally famous different antisemitic graffiti.
Professional-Hamas extremists vandalized the historic United Methodist Church in Westwood final evening. This morning, Jews and Muslims painted over it. They spew hate; we unfold love. Dismantle Hamas now. pic.twitter.com/kfhq188DYu
— Sam Yebri (@samyebri) December 9, 2023
Final evening, pro-Hamas extremists vandalized Holmby Park in Westwood, spray portray genocidal antisemitic slogans like “Intifada” (violent rebellion towards Jews) & “Honor All Our Martyrs” (of Hamas). This morning, a gaggle of us Jews, Muslims, and Christians cleaned it up. pic.twitter.com/QUJab9jYMj
— Sam Yebri (@samyebri) December 9, 2023
Some native residents had taped American and Israeli flags to one of many previously defaced partitions, in a press release of defiance.
American and Israeli flags taped to a wall beforehand vandalized with extremist anti-Israel graffiti reverse a synagogue, Los Angeles, California, December 9, 2023 (Joel Pollak / Breitbart Information)
Two congregants at Sinai Temple, Shantal M. and Joseph C., spoke to Breitbart Information.
“I felt this wasn’t a political motion primarily based on data or supporting Palestinians, however simply primarily based on hate,” mentioned Shantal, who informed Breitbart Information that she is Israeli and has household in Israel.
“These persons are not solely not condemning Hamas, they’re supporting them.”
Joseph added that the demonstration had blocked kinfolk who had been en path to his house for the Sabbath dinner and the second evening of Hanukkah.
He mentioned he had sympathy for the Palestinians, however that the protest had gone too far.
“They’re crying for his or her brothers and sisters, as they need to — however there’s a line.”
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass had not reacted to the antisemitic protest and vandalism as of three:00 Saturday afternoon.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Giant at Breitbart Information and the host of Breitbart Information Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He’s the creator of the brand new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He’s additionally the creator of the current e-book, Neither Free nor Honest: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He’s a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Comply with him on Twitter at @joelpollak.