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The proposal is a response to a rise in virulent anti-Semitism in the city associated with anti-Israel protests, especially several incidents in June in which a mob of pro-Hamas Muslim agitators targeted local synagogues, obstructing entrances to prevent Jews from practicing their faith.
Breitbart (h/t Nita) Los Angeles City Council members Katy Yaroslavsky and Bob Blumenfield demanded action in June, calling for more resources for safety. They are the authors of the new proposal, which would require an eight-foot “bubble zone” around synagogues and other religious institutions.
The Los Angeles Times described the proposal in August, reporting that it “would make it a misdemeanor for protesters to intentionally block the entrances of healthcare facilities, schools or religious institutions — or demonstrate within 8 feet of anyone trying to get inside. The protective 8-foot “bubble” would be required within 100 feet of a facility’s entrance.” It would apply to mosques as well as to synagogues.
As Breitbart News reported, dozens of pro-Palestinian activists blocked the entrance to the synagogue to prevent members of the Jewish community from attending a meeting about purchasing real estate in Israel.
Masked protesters blocking entrance to a synagogue in Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles has nothing to do with free speech and everything having to do with persecuting Jews and preventing Jews from practicing their religious faith. How is this allowed to happen @GavinNewsom… pic.twitter.com/etUYCEErMg
— Rabbi Yonah (@RabbiYonah) June 23, 2024
Anti-Israel protesters have gathered outside the Adas Torah Synagogue Los Angeles where an Israel real-estate fair is taking place.
According to reports from the scene, the protesters have surrounded the synagogue and are preventing Jews from entering. pic.twitter.com/TOpcRHyCaN
— Israel National News – Arutz Sheva (@ArutzSheva_En) June 23, 2024
The video footage from the Palestine protest outside of a synagogue in LA are shocking.
Mob of protestors using violence against Jews in broad daylight.
How does this movement have any legitimacy? https://t.co/guPtwrHBG4 pic.twitter.com/5dNF3oOk8w
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June 23, 2024
CAIR has objected to the proposal, alleging that it intentionally targets pro-Hamas, anti-Israel Muslim activists.
The letter from CAIR California, which appears undated, urges the Los Angeles city attorney to examine the “underlying context” of the proposal, saying it is “targeting anti-Israel demonstrators’ First Amendment rights.”
JUST IN: CAIR has come out against two LA city council proposals that would, among other things, require pro-Hamas protestors to keep an 8-foot distance from people entering synagogues and prohibit them from intentionally blocking entrances pic.twitter.com/P6A7S32PwQ
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) September 15, 2024
The letter claims that “peaceful pro-Hamas protesters have courageously stood up against the ongoing violations of human rights in Gaza” at local universities and other sites. (There have been several acts of violence by the “peaceful” protesters; this reporter was assaulted by “peaceful” protests at a campus “encampment” in April.)
CAIR’s national executive director, Nihad Awad, said that he was happy at the terror attack of October 7, 2023.
CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad at AMP Convention: I Was Happy to See the People of Gaza Break the Siege on October 7; They Were Victorious; the People of Gaza Have the Right to Self-Defense – Israel Does Not #Hamas #Gaza #Palestinians @CAIRNational @NihadAwad pic.twitter.com/WDbSRjFJo0
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) December 7, 2023
In addition, as Breitbart News has noted in the past:
In 2007-8, CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror financing trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. That case, in turn, led the FBI to discontinue its work with the organization. In 2009, a federal judge ruled that the government “produced ample evidence to establish” the ties of CAIR with Hamas, the Palestinian terror organization.
The United Arab Emirates labeled CAIR a terrorist organization in 2014 (a decision that the Obama administration opposed).
CAIR’s Los Angeles chapter also offered to help the family of two Islamic terrorists in nearby San Bernardino in 2015.
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