Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) remained silent Sunday about the shooting that occurred when an anti-Semitic mob targeted the Adas Torah synagogue in the Jewish neighborhood of Pico-Robertson.
Breitbart News reported that dozens of pro-Palestinian activists blocked the entrance to a synagogue to prevent members of the Jewish community from attending a meeting about buying property in Israel.
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers confront and block pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the Adas Torah Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles on June 23, 2024. (Photo: David Swanson/AFP) (Photo: David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images)
The protesters report They surrounded the synagogue and prevented the people from entering it.
Jews from around the world are considering moving to Israel because of anti-Semitic violence, and some are motivated by religious sentiment to retire there or simply to own a vacation home or investment property.
According to ABC7 News, violence broke out between pro-Palestinian protesters and counter-protesters on Pico Street, prompting Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers to show up in riot gear. report.
The media said the clashes between protesters and opponents began with verbal arguments and then escalated into physical altercations.
The media reported that several protesters were detained, but law enforcement officials said no one had been arrested.
Anti-Israel protesters gathered outside the Adas Torah Synagogue in Los Angeles, where an Israeli real estate fair is being held.
Reports from the scene said protesters had surrounded the synagogue, preventing Jews from entering. pic.twitter.com/TOpcRHyCaN
— Israel National News – Arutz Sheva (@ArutzSheva_En) June 23, 2024
More confusion. This is not Gaza. This is Los Angeles.
Anti-Israel protesters physically attack Jews outside a Los Angeles synagogue.
This will not liberate Palestine
Where is the police?
Where is the National Guard?
They are going global… pic.twitter.com/W02ukcjRNA
— Afshain Emrani MD FACC (@afshineemrani) June 23, 2024
Calls for violence against Jews are always horrifying, but shouting them outside a synagogue in a Jewish neighborhood is particularly evil.
Today outside the Adas Torah Synagogue in West Pico, Louisiana: pic.twitter.com/WlEjq7QYIs
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June 23, 2024
Video footage Posts X’s video showed Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers in tactical gear blocking off Pico Boulevard.
Los Angeles police in tactical gear closed off Pico Boulevard in front of Adas Torah after pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters clashed for hours outside an Israeli real estate fair held inside the synagogue. @NBCLA pic.twitter.com/rQoHJFsu0r
— Anastasia Olmos (@StassiOlmos) June 23, 2024
another video A photo posted to X showed a crowd of anti-Israel protesters chanting “baby killers” as they walked through a Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles.
Anti-Semitic mobs marched through Jewish neighborhoods in Los Angeles, chanting “baby killers.”
This is 2024 American genocide.pic.twitter.com/GsMy1q9uSF
— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) June 24, 2024
It is the second time in three days that anti-Israel activists have targeted a Los Angeles synagogue.
Neither base or Newsom It said nothing about the anti-Semitic mobs that targeted Jewish synagogues or the violence that followed.
Breitbart News reached out to Bass’s office but had not heard back as of press time Sunday night.
