This didn’t happen at just any synagogue. This was at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters. That is the home base of all Chabad synagogues around the world, and where the Lubavitcher Rebbe led his faithful from. Over the past week, keffiyeh-clad radicals allied with the Antifas taking over the campuses have been staging multiple protests there, which turned violent.
The far left opposes Chabad mostly because of the Chabad movement’s stance regarding Jews in the Holy Land (which also applies to anywhere else Jews may be in the world), that practical defensive measures are necessary and ought to be in readiness.
If someone rises to kill you, rise up to kill him first.
The Rebbe sermonized this Jewish dictum. It doesn’t necessarily mean to actually kill him, but rather to have the means and willingness to. After demonstrating our readiness to use lethal defensive force, in many cases the attacker will be dissuaded. It actually says, “…rise up TO kill him first,” (LE-hargo) not “… AND kill him first,” (VE-hargo) as many places misquote. We are very happy if nobody gets shot, but/and peace through strength is the only language certain enemies understand.
This same idea is why I decided to learn firearms years ago, and also why I am letting the world know that many Jews are trained and are carrying concealed. I want to dissuade any attacker from doing anything in the first place; that is better for us both.
I have doubts about whether the woman was actually uninvolved. From her own account, she went to the location because she learned about the protest. Not only that, she covered her face because people were recording video. That sounds just like how the campus occupiers are trained to operate. As soon as a target is identified (often on-the-fly via group chat), they swarm to the location to try to surround their target, and then begin their offensive. And of course they try to cover their faces to avoid being identified and prosecuted.
The woman seen harassed in the videos told CNN she learned about the protests after she heard helicopters circling overhead Crown Heights, where she is a resident, and went to the location.
“There were no protesters left by the time I got there. But there were just, like tons, like hundreds of Orthodox Jewish people in the street (and) on the sidewalk,” she told CNN.
“Then some people near me began filming, and I pulled a scarf up over my face because I didn’t want to be filmed by anybody,” she said, adding that putting the scarf on appeared to escalate things as a woman nearby began screaming.
“And as soon as she started screaming at me, this group of 100 men came almost immediately and encircled me,” she said.
In several instances now including this one, I’ve seen that Jews successfully deescalated and defended themselves against far left terrorists targeting their synagogues by counter-swarming.
Antifa cells divide themselves into greens, yellows and reds. The greens are the peaceful protestors and the useful idiots; the yellows are covert agitators who will support the attack if they think they can get away with it; and the reds are the black bloc brawlers who are willing to get arrested.
They divided their “workforce” into green, yellow and red teams.
The job of green rioters was to show up and provide a physical presence, protest signs, chants and general support for others. Yellow rioters engaged in set-up actions—-for example, hurling cement-laden milkshakes at human targets. Once blinded by the milkshakes, and thus rendered defenseless, red team members attacked. They were emboldened by masks that concealed their identities and left them feeling they could act with impunity. Their weapons included hard objects—metal rods and a bicycle lock in at least one case. They deliberately aimed for the victims’ head. They attacked repeatedly.
I suspect this woman probably thought she would be a green or yellow, and so did not show up in any uniform. But, having had some Antifa training, she tried to be part of a swarm and had a bandana because she foresaw possibly doing something where she needed to avoid identification.
Due to modern usage people don’t grasp that easily, but it is true
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is a problem as it sets the defense of actions, hence the whole Russia nuclear stand off before the elections, they were pushed hard to react so those reactions could be used to justify further reaction, an attempt to get public sympathy and backing.
All conflict causes the need for conflict resolution and serves as a catalyst for an argument to disarm everyone, which only means actually killing will be far more brutal and far easier for those who retained weapons, i.e. criminals who didn’t obey legal edicts to disarm.
Religion has always been a great igniter for conflict, no reason to not use it again, now in this age.
Following the paradigm that Jewish history is world history in microcosm, you can see this intolerance of dissent being used as a motive to genocide the world’s Jews in the Book of Esther:
Esther 3:5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai would neither kneel nor prostrate himself before him, Haman became full of wrath. 6 But it seemed contemptible to him to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him Mordecai’s nationality, and Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout Ahaseurus’s entire kingdom, Mordecai’s people. […] 8 And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and separate among the peoples throughout all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws differ from [those of] every people, and they do not keep the king’s laws; it is [therefore] of no use for the king to let them be. 9 If it pleases the king, let it be written to destroy them, and I will weigh out ten thousand silver talents into the hands of those who perform the work, to bring [it] into the king’s treasuries.”
Ultimately Haman’s plot boomeranged when G.d orchestrated that Haman and his friends be killed instead. This same pattern has echoed for millennia. As we Jews just recited over Passover:
For it was not one alone who stood against us to destroy us, but rather in every generation they stood up against us to destroy us; and the Holy One blessed is He saved us from their hand.
~ Haggadah of Passover