Re: An Atrocity Grows in Brooklyn Opinion by Sara Lehmann in JNS. My comments

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An Atrocity Grows in Brooklyn

Who gave permission for a confined protest to turn into a menacing march?

May 18, 2026

Sara Lehmann

https://www.jns.org/opinion/sara-lehmann/an-atrocity-grows-in-brooklyn

Thank you Sara! You are on the mark when you write

"Who gave permission for a confined protest to turn into a menacing march?"

My comments:

I too was on Ocean and L on that evening before 7pm with my husband. We were escorted to the Shul, we attended the event, and spoke to some vendors and then left.  I didn't really see the protesters yet close by but there were lots of police.  I returned later with  friends. This time I saw and heard the protesters.  We were escorted into the event.  The protesters  were down the block. We left after 9pm. They seemed to have disappeared around then and apparently marched through the neighborhood.... 

Were they marching around the neighborhood before 7pm as well?

The next day I saw offensive, intimidating hate videos that took place on residential streets nearby the event. 

A confined Free Palestine protest should never get a permit!...let alone be allowed to be a marching protest spewing hatred and threatening a community.

People should be protected under the law! However. these hate spewing protesters were and are protected to threaten a neighborhood, under the guise of freedom of speech and freedom of expression.

Under Mamdani how can we best respond?

Let's brainstorm. Jews should not be the ones intimidated.

Here are some suggestions:

• On Shavuot, religious Jewish men should come out en  masse walking in the streets wearing their Tefillin.
•  JDL types, Veteran IDF soldiers identifying with Kach or the IDF and Jewish Self Defense should have a noticeable presence
• Everyone is encouraged to wear open expression of Jewish Israeli pride like a flag of Israel (Magen David), a flag of Judea and Samaria (Lion), a flag of Har HaBayit (Beit HaMildash), Return to Gush Katif, Tzahal paraphernalia...
•  Young and old, can be educated and armed as best as possible and with knowledge on how to best respond given the circumstances in case they feel threatened.  This is especially relevant to anyone walking on the streets late on Shavuot night!

Perhaps there can be Rabbinic permission to carry cell phones if there is any reason to believe the streets might not be safe?  

I hope no Rav or political Askan suggests stay home for your protection!  Jews should come out en masse with Jewish Pride as usual this coming Shavuot night. We need to work with law enforcement but be prepared to do what is necessary to protect our community. Under Mamdani there is good reason not to rely on the NYC Police. Their hands might be tied and fail to deter intimidation and provocation by the Free Palestine protesters. They will probably try to keep us safe by discouraging any open display of Support for Israel.  They will say it's provoking and therefore dangerous.

Our enemies need to be fearful of walking around freely chanting Jew hatred and intimidation. 

Jews need to feel secure walking freely going to and from Synagogues.

When I was in Israel in November, I knew we were surrounded on all sides by evil but I felt safe because Chayalim and civilians with weapons were all over the place.

Posted on 

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Related:

This post is in Hebrew. Deterrence is key! We need to show strength so that our enemies don't dare to commit atrocities like that which happened on October7. We can learn from Torah how to respond from the story of Dina when she was violated by Shchem.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1D2HMD6zHf/

To get strength of spirit and connection to Eretz Yisroel and Beit HaMikdash please watch Yishai Fleisher on Yom Yerushalayim reporting from the Kotel.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EGF78M41X/

 

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Re: Strong Rebuke from Petach Tikva Magistrate Court Regarding Unlawful Detention and Restraining Orders of Settler Detainees Who are Prevented From Having Access to a Lawyer and Repeated Lack of Evidence of Wrongdoing

בס"ד

English translation follows:

ביקורת חריפה של בימ"ש השלום בפתח תקווה על השב"כ על השימוש במניעת מפגש כנגד עצורים יהודים ביו"ש

בימ"ש לא חסך במילים כנגד השימוש החוזר בצווי המניעה וקובע כי החשדות כנגד המתיישבים לא מצדיקות מניעת מפגש.  "הדבר חוזר על עצמו פעם אחר פעם ומוביל באופן מובנה לפגיעה בזכויותיו החוקתיות של כל אזרח הנמצא בסיטואציה הקשה של מעצר".

המשטרה והשב"כ ביקשו למנוע את פרסום הדברים ולעכב את פרסום ההחלטה אולם השופט דחה את בקשתם.

עורכי דינם של המתיישבים מארגון חוננו עדי קידר ונתי רום תקפו: "חשוב מאוד שהציבור ייחשף לדברים של השופט. החלטה זו מצטרפת להחלטות נוספות המלמדות שההר שיצר שב"כ שוב הוליד עכבר".

יש לציין כי ברקע עומד גם הראיון של מפקד ימ"ר ש"י וההקלטות שחשפו את יחס המחלקה נגד יהודים בשב"כ כלפי מתיישבים ואת הזלזול שלהם בשופטים שדורשים הצגת חומר ראיות.

*חדשות הגבעות*

Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court Strongly Criticizes Shin Bet for Restraining Orders that Prevent Jewish Detainees from Judea and Samaria to meet with a lawyer in Judea and Samaria.

The Magistrate's Court did not mince words against the repeated use of restraining orders, stating that the suspicions against the settlers do not justify preventing them from meeting with a lawyer. "This is repeated time and time again and leads in a structured way to the violation of the constitutional rights of every citizen who is in the difficult situation of detention."

The police and Shin Bet sought to prevent the publication of the statements and delay the publication of the decision, but the judge rejected their request.

The settlers' lawyers from the Honenu organization, Adi Kedar and Nati Rom, attacked: "It is very important that the public be exposed to the judge's words. This decision joins other decisions that show that the mountain created by the Shin Bet has once again given birth to a mouse."

In the backdrop is the exposure of an interview of the commander of the

ימ"ר ש"י

the Central Investigation and Intelligence Unit and the recordings that revealed an anti Jewish bias of the Shin Bet towards settlers and their disdain for judges who demand the presentation of evidence.

(Those responsible for handling serious crime, terrorism and thwarting terrorism in Judea and Samaria the area between the Megiddo Junction in the north and the Hebron Mountains) 

*Hill News*

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Hilltop Maccabees: Erez Avrahami's Facebook Post

*Erez Avrahami’s Facebook Post:*

"For about 40 years I was in agriculture. From the day I was born, I grew up in a farming family.

"From the moment I was born, I grew up in agriculture that lives in fear of Arabs — fear of thefts, fear of vandalism and destruction of property and equipment.

"One of my childhood memories is going down with Dad to close the shutters on the chicken coops. He would skillfully hold a small cocked rifle in one hand while lowering the shutters.
Another memory: One day he came up from the young olive grove he had planted and told us that the Arabs had chopped down the trees. They came at night with axes and cut down tree after tree. They made sure to cut them below the graft, so that even if the trees regenerated, they wouldn’t bear fruit. That orchard still exists around the greenhouse to this day — and it doesn’t produce any fruit.

"Another time, I remember them destroying a plot of Godetia flowers that was intended for export. They came at night and cut the support nets that held up the branches. Everything collapsed and the whole plot was ruined.

"They stole everything — crops, chickens, irrigation equipment, plastic sheets, nets, clothes, and tools. In the year we closed the farm, they stole 2 tractors, 2 small tractors, and 2 cars.
If I add up all the thefts and damages, it comes to well over a million shekels.

"When they couldn’t steal, they would cause damage: pour out fertilizer from containers, cut plastic sheets and nets, break faucets, and smash water meters.

"This went on for years and years.

When the tractors were stolen and taken to the [Arab] villages, I followed the tracks all the way to the security fence. Of course, the army and the state refused to intervene. They refused to enter the villages and retrieve the stolen equipment. They refused to act to stop the phenomenon.

"They called it agricultural terror.
"Once we even found the slogan “Itbah al Yahud” (Slaughter the Jews) written on the plastic in the greenhouse.

"And all of this happened here in Moshav Neve Michael, inside the Green Line — not in a settlement, just a regular border community.

"At night we didn’t sleep out of fear of thefts. We would wander around the fields for hours, guarding until we were exhausted. We played cat and mouse with the Arab thieves.

"This went on for years and years. If I was in agriculture for 40 years, my father was in it for 80 years — and he doesn’t remember any other reality.

"So today, when I see the settlers in the outposts retrieving stolen herds from the villages, I am proud of them.

"When I see them taking the law into their own hands, I am proud of them.

*"Where the state and the law fail, private initiative rises to solve the problem.*

"Anyone who looks at “Jewish terror” in Judea and Samaria without understanding where it came from is blind and immoral.

"The settlers understood what the State of Israel refuses to understand: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

"This is the language the Arabs understand here. The strong survive.

"The settlers got tired of living in fear, in ghettos inside their settlements. They went out to the fields, to state lands that were bought with a lot of money and left abandoned for years because the Arabs imposed terror on them.

"When we abandoned lands in the West Bank, they started stealing in the Elah Valley. When we abandoned the Elah Valley, they started stealing and causing damage in communities even deeper inside — in the Lachish area and Beit Shemesh.

"This is their method. This is how Arab terror works.

"I remember when Bat Ayin went up to the land for the first time. The moment a flock was stolen from them, they entered the village of Surif and brought it back — with interest.

"This is how a people that is sovereign in its land behaves. It does not allow a gang of thieves, murderers, and rapists to plunder it.
They are simply doing what the state has fallen asleep on and cannot do.

"I am proud of them. I look at the agricultural farms in Judea and Samaria and I am proud of them.

"They are succeeding where we failed.

"I wish we would all agree to break out of the fences and stop being afraid — to truly be “a free people in our land.”

"Old memories: the hole in the security fence that was cut open with the stolen tractor. The tracks were still fresh in the mud. If only back then he had had a group of brave young men armed with clubs to go in and bring it back."

Source: Elisha Yered

*HILLTOP MACCABEES*
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