First, more information from the Pogrom on the Berkeley campus.
A Jewish UC Berkeley student, who requested anonymity, told the Journal in a phone interview that she was choked by pro-Palestinian protesters Monday evening. The protestors were trying to shut down an event featuring a former Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldier as a speaker.
The event, “Israel at War: Combat the Lies” and organized by Bears for Israel (BFI), Students Supporting Israel at Berkeley (SSIB) and Tikvah, was set to feature former Israel Defense Force (IDF) soldier Ran Bar-Yoshafat speaking before being canceled due to the pro-Palestinian protest.
“Minutes before the event was to start, a crowd of some 200 protesters began to surround the building,” University Chancellor Carol Christ and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Benjamin Hermalin said in a message to the campus community on Tuesday afternoon. “Doors were broken open and the protesters gained unauthorized entry to the building. The event was canceled, and the building was evacuated to protect the speaker and members of the audience.”
The student and her group of friends were escorted inside into Zellerbach; the student thought that the security around the event was tight enough to prevent any of the protesters from storming into the building.
Eventually, a police officer pushed all of the protesters and the student outside; the student broke free from the protesters and “ran away.” “People were crying left and right. Everyone was scared,” the student said. She also observed the protesters chanting, “We won! We won! We won!” when the event was ultimately canceled; Bar-Yoshafat and the Jewish students inside were escorted safely out of the building through underground tunnels.
There is video and pictures.
Last night at @UCBerkeley, Jewish students were threatened, assaulted, and prevented from attending a speech by a Jewish speaker on campus. Campus police shut down this private event when it became clear that they could not protect the students. Multiple students reported being… pic.twitter.com/FKidts1FvZ
— JCRC Bay Area (@SFJCRC) February 27, 2024
🚨 Tonight at UC BERKELEY
During Ron Bar Yoshafat’s speaking engagement a Jewish student who was just trying to attend the event was physically assaulted by SJP. @StopAntisemites @IsraelWarRoom @EndJewHatred pic.twitter.com/3hwFuxesgQ
— Aden Kosoi (@adenkosoi) February 27, 2024
That, shockingly, isn’t the worst news out of California this week.
California dentist fatally shot at work, ‘disgruntled’ ex-customer arrested
A dentist is dead and two others are wounded after a man, believed to be a “disgruntled former patient,” allegedly opened fire in a southern California dentist’s office last week.
Police in El Cajon, about 15 miles east of San Diego, were called to Smile Plus Dentistry and Orthodontics shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday for an active shooting.
When officers arrived, they found three victims, El Cajon police explained. One of those victims, later identified as 28-year-old Benjamin Ariel Harouni by the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office, was pronounced dead at the scene from apparent gunshot injuries to the body.
The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Mohammed Abdulkareem, was believed to be a “disgruntled former customer” of the dental office, authorities said. However, El Cajon Police said the relationship between the victims and Adbulkareem is unclear as of Friday.
Abdulkareem allegedly left the scene of the shooting and was on the run for several hours until police located him as well as the U-Haul pickup truck he was believed to be driving in the Balboa Park area. Police said they found a loaded handgun and several loaded magazines on him, which records show were legally purchased by Abdulkareem just two weeks before the shooting.
What the local news has left out, because the national news hasn’t touched this story, is that Dr. Benjamin Harouni is a member of the Iranian-Jewish community that emigrated to the US.
A Jewish dentist is murdered in a premeditated way by a Muslim client, who went through the laborious process of obtaining a handgun in California to do the shooting, and the police call him “disgruntled.”
The increase on violence against Jews is horrific and the police and media are doing little of nothing to stop it or report on it.
The only option is to be armed and vigilant.
You are your first and last line of defense, nobody is coming to save you.
as the oldtimers say- shoot, shovel and shut up.. trust in this Country is gone. you want to trust police, but you can’t because you don’t know who is going to show up after you call. police controlled by liberals soft on crime …
So, let me see if I have this straight.
When a muslim commits a terrorist act, we are not supposed to judge all muslims by that single person’s actions.
But, when hamass starts a war with Israel, and some innocents get harmed, we are supposed to blame each and every Jew for the actions taken by the IDF as part of a war?
Got it.
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Can I start killing random muslims next time there is a islamic terrorist attack?
Can I start killing random muslims next time there is a islamic terrorist attack?
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No, of course not! The motive will be “undetermined”, so you can’t blame Islam or Muslims for the actions of a lone disturbed individual (who just happened to have his full community’s support, blessing, and silence).
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But according to the Left it’s OK to start harassing, assaulting, or killing Jews around the world the next time Israel does anything the Left doesn’t like…
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… or when Israel MIGHT do something the Left doesn’t like…
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… or when Israel DOESN’T do anything the Left doesn’t like…
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… or whenever….
I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that the successors of the demonrats who sent Jewish refugees back to Nazi-occupied Europe (with FULL KNOWLEDGE of what would be done to them) would cover up anti-Semitic hate crime.