Exclusive – Before the tunnel under a New York City synagogue made national news, X user @FrumTikTok posted a video thread showing radical Orthodox Hasidic students clashing with New York City police.
David, whose last name has been withheld for security reasons, never expected his post to go viral, leading to personal threats and fueling anti-Semitic conspiracy and propaganda. .
“I started a thread with a video and a short explanation of what was going on. I thought it would be a small story and that a few people might be interested, but lo and behold, it's gaining momentum. We had a blast,” David told Fox News. Exclusive digital interview.
“I turned off my phone for the night and when I woke up, the thread had been viewed over 50 million times and the news media was starting to cover the story.”
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Hasidic Jewish students watch as law enforcement establishes a perimeter around a destroyed wall of a synagogue that leads to a tunnel dug by the students. (Bruce Schaff/Associated Press)
Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters, a high-profile synagogue in Brooklyn, is one of the holiest places of worship for followers of the Chabad-Lubavitch faith.
It is a small, closed sect of the Orthodox movement that only about 16% of American Jews adhere to, according to the newspaper. Jewish news outlet Forward.
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Last week, America watched sensational videos of wild riots and dark “secret” tunnels beneath a place known as “770,” after the speech at 770 Eastern Parkway. fabricated a conspiracy theory about the sacrifice of
These nonsense theories were spread across social media as fact and used as anti-Semitic propaganda, David said.
“Age-old anti-Semitic conspiracy theories were circulating, along with hateful rhetoric that permeated both the extremist and mainstream spheres and across the ideological spectrum,” he said. “But then I realized the pitfalls of social media, especially X.”
The world headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement is located on Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. (Google Street View)
As Fox News Digital previously reported, the group, which Chabad spokesperson Motti Seligson referred to as “radical students,” is a group based on the decades-old vision of former Chabad movement leader Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schnierson. I believed that I was doing it.
The possibility of an expansion project comes after decades of ongoing litigation between mainstream members and splinter factions of the Chabad movement, with each side claiming to be the rightful owner of “770.” It's never happened.
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But shocking footage of underground tunnels and violent clashes with police has “transformed the story of the expansion and ownership of the Holy Synagogue into ferocious rhetoric dating back to the Middle Ages,” David said. .
The hate and threats got so out of hand that David deleted the entire thread and explained his reasons in a tweet on January 9th. He said: “I will not allow anti-Semitic Jew haters to use my account to promote their pathetic hatred of religious Jews.”
Check out this video of David touring the 770.
“When people started saying that known anti-Semites were retweeting my videos, I made the decision to delete the entire thread,” David said in a chat with Fox News Digital.
“I never intended for people who hate Jews to use my account to spread their hateful and disgusting venom.”
But by that point, David said, the dam had broken and hate continued to flood timelines and messages.
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One person asked him, “Why do you defend pedos? Is it because they have the same unclean blood as you? Delete that Christian from your bio. We Orthodox Christians protect our children, we do not sacrifice our children.”
“Your decision to delete a thread about fellow tunnels being used for satanic rituals and child trafficking means you are part of the plan. Where is your sacred place? Why don't you dig under it? F—- child predators. Your day is at hand. Everyone kept pushing, kept pushing, everybody accepted your sin. But… People stand up for kids, and you're all going to go to jail. And you know what you do to kids in jail, criminals, right?”
The majority of rabbis, including several who spoke to Fox News Digital or emailed statements, condemned the students' actions. According to the New York City Police Department, a total of nine students were arrested and charged with misdemeanor and disorderly conduct.
NYPD officers arrested the student after he was removed from a crack in the synagogue wall that led to a tunnel the students had dug. (Bruce Schaff/Associated Press)
Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, in a statement on behalf of Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters, said: “We are saddened by the acts of vandalism by this group of young agitators.” (Chabad Lubavitch HQ/X)
David said he created his account to “distribute funny and insightful videos mixed with lots of Jewish humor and wit.”
“I never got into this for the fame,” he said.
Before the 770 uprising, he had around 11,400 followers, and while that number has grown to nearly 17,000, none of his tweets have received more than 600,000 views. This is nothing compared to the roughly 50 million+ views his videos have received. 24hours.
“The fight against anti-Semitism, terrorism and hatred is not just a fight for Jews,” he said. “A world without a place for Jews and Israel has no place for humanity. In the end, all good people will suffer. So all good people must come together to win this war.” It must be done.”
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When asked if he regretted posting the video, David said he did not. He said the video “reveals that many pro-Palestinian accounts are simply Jew haters promoting age-old anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.”
“The only thing that needs to change is that That means it won’t happen.”
