Gerrer Chassidim Beat the Hell out R' Shaul's Followers in a "pogrom" Friday Night in Yerushalayim, Bet Shemesh, Ashdod

 

שבת של אלימות ועימותים בין חסידי גור לאנשי קהילת הגר"ש אלתר. בירושלים, אשדוד ובבני ברק התגוששו הצדדים במשך שעות ארוכות שכללו גרימת נזק לרכוש, מכות ומהומות. בי"ם חילצה המשטרה את הגר"ש אלתר מבניין בית המדרש בליווי כוחות יס"מ.
הרקע: כרוז שהופעל נגד האדמו"ר מגור ששהה בבית קברות בת"א. pic.twitter.com/tq3CJKQYWw

— שימי שפר (@Shimishafer) May 21, 2022

 

This is Torah?
These are the heilige people who are too busy learning Torah to fight in the Israeli army to protect Jews, but who have plenty of time to viciously attack other Jews ?
These are people who fight Jews during sefirah which is a time of mourning due to hatred between Torah scholars? Oy to such a Torah and to such Torah scholars!!!!!

In one of the worst demonstrations of the tensions and split within the Gur chasidic sect, violent clashes occurred on Friday night between the two rival factions, forcing police to intervene to maintain public order. The clashes broke out after a loudspeaker was used to criticize the Gerer Rebbe when he visited a cemetery in Tel Aviv Friday. The loudspeaker incident incensed his chasidim, who had also received a pamphlet in recent days criticizing the Rebbe’s behavior towards Rav Shaul’s faction.

At the height of the tensions, armed police were brought into the shul of Rabbi Shaul Alter to accompany him to his home due to the threats against him. Police used mounted police and water cannon to try and restore public order after chasidim damaged cars, threw objects and attacked one another. Eyewitnesses said that the riots were “the worst Jerusalem has seen in years.” Two policemen were injured and taken to hospital for treatment.

Members of  Rav Shaul’s community said that hundreds of members of the mainstream Gur chasidim attacked them on Friday night, causing significant damage to the Beis Midrash and even forcing Rav Shaul Alter to remain barricaded in the building until police came to escort him home.

The violence and clashes continued after Shabbos and spread to other Gur venues. In Ashdod cars were damaged, tires slashed and a Gur shul affiliated with Rav Shaul also suffered damage. A Mezuza was even removed from one of the yeshivas of Rav Shaul’s chasidim.

Police worked to restore order on Bar Ilan and Yirmiyahu streets where members of both factions continued to clash Saturday night. Armed guards continued to be present outside the home of Rabbi Shaul on Elkana street.

Hundreds of chareidim who are not affiliated with Gur protested the desecration of Shabbos and the attacks on Rav Shaul’s chasidim. The demonstrators blocked buses and prevented mainstream chasidim from returning home.

 

Bribery charge against Netanyahu Falling Apart

 

“It’s incredible,” Benjamin Netanyahu said upon exiting Jerusalem’s district court earlier this week, with a grin plastered across his face. Soon after, he confidently declared in a Facebook post that “Case 4000 is dead.”

Analysts agree that the shaky testimony of a key witness may have punched a serious hole in the prosecution’s case in the corruption trial against the former prime minister, but cautioned that it may not be as significant as Netanyahu proclaimed.

“I wouldn’t say it’s falling apart, but the prosecution definitely lost points,” said Walla news legal reporter Yael Freidson, who has been covering the trial. “There was a big hole punched in ‘What did Bibi do?,’ she said, using Netanyahu’s nickname. “It doesn’t look good” for the prosecution.

Cops hunt for NYC synagogue firebug

 

A woman ignited a book and piece of cloth and hurled it through the gate of a Gramercy Park synagogue, according to police, who released video footage of the alleged firebug.

The disturbing incident — which is being investigated as a hate crime — happened at 1:30 a.m. Thursday at the Brotherhood Synagogue on Gramercy Park South, near 3rd Avenue, cops said.

There was no serious damage to the building, police said.

The NYPD late Friday night released a 16-second video clip seeking the public’s help in identifying the suspect, who ran off.

The clip shows the woman — wearing glasses, dressed in black, carrying a green shopping bag and sporting a white baseball cap — walking.

WANTED for an Arson at 28 Gramercy Park South . #Manhattan  @NYPD13pct on 5/19/22 @ 1:25 AM the individual approached the Brotherhood Synagogue and lit a book and a piece of cloth on fire and threw them through the Synagogue’s metal gate.   Reward up to $3500 Call 1-800-577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/doutMAOIDT

— NYPD Crime Stoppers (@NYPDTips) May 21, 2022

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s confidential Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips.

Jewish woman charged with painting swastikas on Boro-Park bus stop

 

A Jewish woman was charged with spray painting two swastikas on a bus stop in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, NY after she boasted in a Facebook post that “maybe the antisemites have a point.”

Farnoush Hakakian, 45, was arrested on Wednesday. She was charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime in connection with an incident on May 5 in which she allegedly spray painted a white swastika over an ad by a Jewish advocacy group calling for an end to antisemitism and also drew a swastika inside the bus stop, the New York Daily News reported.

A video allegedly showed the suspect during daylight hours spray painting swastikas on the sign at a Brooklyn bus stop, drawing one swastika over the sign with white spray paint and another above it. She then sat down at the bus stop to wait for a bus.

The act was committed in front of multiple witnesses.

The sign by the JewBelong organization was part of a recent antisemitism awareness campaign. It said: “We’re just 75 years since the gas chambers... So no, a billboard calling out Jew hate isn’t an overreaction. #EndJewHate.”

“This type of hate followed by the deafening silence from supposedly good people should be abhorrent to anyone who stands for justice. You don’t have to be a historian to know that to be quiet about hate doesn’t stop the haters,” JewBelong co-founder Stacy Stewart told the Daily News at the time of the incident.

When she was apprehended, Hakakian told police: “I am Jewish. This is my art, this is how I express myself. I don’t agree with Judaism and how the Jewish people are.”

A law enforcement source told the news outlet that she told police she had drawn the swastikas.

The day after she allegedly committed the vandalism, Hakakian wrote on Facebook: “Instead of condemning the antisemites, did it ever occur to you maybe we are doing many wrong things and we need to change????? Did it ever occur to you maybe the antisemites have a point? A good one?”

On Thursday, Hakakian posted on Facebook that she was converting to Buddhism.

Zera Shimshon Parshas Bechukoisah

 

Close to 30,000 Jews Have Gone to the Har Habyit to Daven ...Kol Ha'Kovod

 

Hamas Now Wants Bnei-Brak and Meah Shearim Too

 

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal: "The battle is not over. We want all the land." pic.twitter.com/Zsl4ZY1zSg

— Khaled Abu Toameh (@KhaledAbuToameh) May 18, 2022

Watch How Syrians Take Care of their "Terrorists"

 

Audit Finds Half of President Biden’s Twitter Followers are Fake Bots

 

President Joe Biden has an impressive 22.2 million followers on Twitter; but apparently half of them are bots. According to an audit tool from software company SparkToro, “49.3 percent of account’s following the official @POTUS Twitter account are ‘fake followers” reports Newsweek.

SparkToro defines “fake” as “accounts that are unreachable and will not see the account’s tweets (either because they’re spam, bots, propaganda, etc. or because they’re no longer active on Twitter.”

Analysis was conducted based on factors such as location issues, default profile images and new users. The information is of particular importance as Elon Musk has expressed his concern at the overwhelming number of fake accounts on the giant platform. Specifically, he claimed 20 percent of Twitter accounts were “fake/spam accounts” and that the figure is “4 times what Twitter claims” or even higher.

“Musk said early on Tuesday that his $44-billion deal to purchase the social media company could not go ahead until issues with fake accounts were resolved and appeared to criticize Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal” adds Newsweek.

The accusation put the acquisition in jeopardy, with the two men exchanging a series of tweets about the fake accounts issue on Monday.

The back-and-forth comes after Musk tweeted Friday that the deal to buy Twitter was placed on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts represent less than 5% of users.

“My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate,” Musk wrote. “Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%. This deal cannot move forward until he does.”

“We suspend over half a million spam accounts every day, usually before any of you even see them on Twitter. We also lock millions of accounts each week that we suspect may be spam, if they can’t pass human verification challenges (captchas, phone verification, etc),” Agrawal wrote.

Men Can Get Pregnant and have Abortions

 

.@RepDanBishop: "Do you believe...that men can get pregnant and have abortions?"

Democrat abortion witness: "Yes." pic.twitter.com/GvA7SxUS21

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 18, 2022