The Pogrom in Los Angeles

Hat tip Sultan Knish


Temple Beth Israel in Los Angeles
-Algemeiner


"Generic condemnations of violence are not enough. Not only have Jewish organizations failed to call out the anti-Semitism of Black Lives Matter, they've effectively jumped on to its hateful cause. And they have maintained a hushed silence about the devastation wreaked on the Jewish community."
-Daniel Greenfield, Sultan Knish


You won't hear about it much if at all in the news media-including the politically correct media of Los Angeles, but the rioting in Los Angeles quickly hit a historically Jewish district-the Fairfax district.On Saturday, May 30, Jewish shops were ransacked and synagogues spray painted. Thugs drove the streets shouting out, "effing Jews".

Why? Why that part of Los Angeles? Need I ask? When you attack a place of worship, you are attacking the religion and its adherents, are you not? It's true if you attacking a synagogue, church, Buddhist temple or a Muslim mosque. And let me add as one who has criticized many aspects of Islam, I am against attacking mosques or Muslims.

In the below article I am cross-posting, Daniel Greenfield reports on the pogrom that has somehow escaped the attention of our press-national or local. This was a pogrom, and while watching local news coverage the only indication I heard was that it was occurring in the Fairfax district. Someone not familiar with LA would not have made the connection. (I can't say definitively that nobody in the media pointed this out, but I didn't hear it. Living in Orange Country, we pick up all the LA stations.)

Also curious is the fact that many of the mainstream Jewish voices didn't talk about it either. Please read Mr Greenfield's column.

http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2020/06/the-los-angeles-pogrom-that-no-jewish.html

In 1938, a young Polish Jew named Herschel Grznzspan, living in Paris and angry about the fact that his parents were among hundreds of Jews being pushed across the border into Poland, went to the German embassy and  fatally shot a German diplomat named Ernst vom Rath. When vom Rath dies a few days later, the Nazis used the occasion to launch Kristalnacht or the Night of Broken Glass. All across Germany, Jewish businesses were broken into, synagogues burned and Jews arrested for no cause. It may be a bad comparison to compare the death of vom Rath with that of George Floyd, but it would have made no difference if Jewish leaders had loudly proclaimed their condemnation of the vom Rath murder. The result would have been the same. The point is that innocent Jews were targeted and victimized over events they had nothing to do with.

As I am writing this, some thug in New York is threatening to lead a mob into the city's diamond district tonight. Why there?

It's OK to stand in support of peaceful demonstrators and express outrage over the death of Floyd. It is not OK to take a knee in the face of rioters who are attacking you. It is not OK to condemn the thousands of cops across the nation who are taking abuse because of the incident in Minneapolis by four bad cops. Jews have historically stood in support of black victims of racism. The line has to be drawn, however, when protests turn into riots and anger is misdirected at innocent Jews. History teaches us that we need to stand against the violent, criminal element, whether it be Black Lives Matter, Antifa, or others who promote violence.