Following an op-ed published by the YWN Editorial Board blasting the reckless actions of an anonymous organizer, a pro-Israel car rally which was scheduled for Thursday in the heart of Flatbush, has been cancelled.
The organizer reached out to YWN requesting that we publicize that the rally has been cancelled at his request.
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If it’s an anonymous organizer behind it, how do you know that the anonymous one who cancelled is the original anonymous organizer?
I want to know if there will be any cancelations of the anti-israel thing tommorow? (Probably arranged by satmar based on what I heard from the following number 9293997165)
Now that it is canceled I can not be responsible for any issues so I will state;
1, Years ago I learned not to drive on Coney Island Ave on Fridays. The crowd exiting the mosque wildly ran through traffic, the cop nearby told me to just move. (The cops helped them break laws, at my shul they just gave us tickets.)
2, The Brooklyn Bangladeshi community has been oh so peaceful, tell me they did not try to bomb the subways TWICE.
3, They were caught throwing debris out of an upper window at frum people walking below, it was dismissed as just kids.
OK, cancel the rally but don’t whitewash the bad behavior.
Everyone has a right to protest. You didn’t have to bash the organizer in this article for his “reckless protest” in the heart of Flatbush where Jews live. Unlike Muslims “flag caravans” where they drive to Jewish neighborhoods to try to instigate and intimidate Jews, this pro-Israel protest was to be in the heart of a Jewish neighborhood. And the police do not have a legal right to persecute the person behind the protest as you claimed in your last article that the police was going to do.
Now I agree with you that a pro-Israel protest should not be in or near an area where there’s a large Muslim population and I’m glad the protest was canceled. I think a more neutral area, like in Times Square, is more suitable for a pro-Israel protest. However, there was no reason to verbally attack the organizer like this. You could’ve simply wrote a civil and convincing argument why the protest should be cancelled.
dont protest , makes only trouble with anti –
anything best to protest get free ticket to yesroel (shiloh)
I think its a mistake to tell people to be afraid to respond to antisemitism for fear of upsetting people. What happened the last time people openly stated Jews are inherently evil and Jews didn’t respond for fear of retribution? Yea, that didn’t work out to well. Silence is complicity. How can nations understand their silence enabled the holocaust when we are too afraid to speak up for ourselves?? Its no wonder the ridiculous misinformation about Jews/Israel is so prevalent on right here in US college campuses and now thriving on Capitol Hill with this type of Jewish response….a response of silence other than internal Jewish blackmailing good people not to hold protests for antisemitism because “we don’t want to upset the Muslims/Nazis/Crusaders etc.,”. Seriously? We shouldn’t publicly speak out against anti-Semitism and let haters think they may be incorrect by concluding Jews are evil because they might be bothered by that notion? What does that say to the unaffiliated American public? Hamas and Iran love to see this kind of response and the infighting among us which so obviously hurts us more than anything else for so, so many obvious reasons.
And for the record (since I know people will bring it up) I have nothing to do with these event organizers; no clue who they are and I don’t even live anywhere near the east coast. Honestly this article was the first I even heard of this event.
The real answer should be we should have the rally the Arabs should go to H and bring back the JDL to defend ourselves. There wouldn’t be a state of Israel today with this soft attitude. Better to be hated and have a state of Israel than to be loved for being killed in a concentration camp.