Videos shared online show a female protester having her Palestinian flag snatched away before she is violently shoved to the side. Later videos show her on the ground as she bleeds from the head. Police did not appear to intervene.
Some witnesses posting on social media said she was attacked with a brick.
The woman reportedly took to Instagram, where she identified herself as an anti-Zionist Jew with an Israeli passport, as she displayed the injuries to her face.
“The only thing that gives me some joy is that while all the zios were celebrating and laughing at me im over here thinking yall hit a Jew w. a damn israhelli passport!!! great job," she wrote.
The second female referenced by Adams turned out to be a passerby who lives in the neighbourhood, according to a report in the Associated Press.
She was surrounded by 100 men, all part of the pro-Israel crowd, who threatened to rape her before following her down the street as they chanted, “Death to Arabs,” repeatedly, she told the AP.
Some witnesses posting on social media said she was attacked with a brick.
Her forehead massively bleeding on video might be an indicator for that.
Oof. This is so fucking tragic.
I’m honestly surprised that Adams would actually investigate crimes committed by an Orthodox mob. That’s his base.
We’ll see.
I don’t think they were orthodox. Those guys are generally anti-zionist.
Also:
Adams did not specify that the attacks were from a pro-Israel crowd, and repeatedly called them “counter-protesters”.
I think you’re confused.
First, I’m about 99% sure that was a crowd of young orthodox men. I saw a video, and it looked like your standard Crown Heights Haredi mob. It was also outside of the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters.
Also, why do you think Orthodox Jews are anti-zionist? Historically I think they were in tactical disagreement with modern liberal Zionism as a project, but I think they’ve come around and are now among the most violent supporters of land theft, settler violence, and exterminationism.
If I’m missing something, let me know.
Can you put this in any context? Because it seems to confirm what I’ve said: orthodox Jews were historically misaligned with liberal zionism. But the modern form of zionism is much closer to religious zionism, and the hosting of one of the most outspoken and fascistic expansionist Israeli leaders at the worldwide headquarters for the Chabad-Lubavitch sect seems to really remove a lot of ambiguity here.
It looked like a crowd of Chabadniks gathered around the Chabad global headquarters to violently terrorize anti-zionist protesters (or anyone they confused for protesters). I think you might just be operating on incomplete or outdated information about orthodox Jews and zionism.
Nothing will happen.
“The only thing that gives me some joy is that while all the zios were celebrating and laughing at me im over here thinking yall hit a Jew w. a damn israhelli passport!!! great job," she wrote.
Amazing.
Matriarchal culture my fucking ass.
Scum, like every Abrahmaic religion. Misogynistic scum all the way through.
Scum
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