CRINGE PICS: BACK TO THE FUTURE

 

 

AS THEY SAY: History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. I ran across this pic when I was researching about Ukraine for a previous post. The caption underneath reads: “A woman is being attacked during the Jewish pogrom in Lviv, in July 1941.” 

I was immediately reminded of the shameful incident in April of this year in New York City, when a woman stepped out of her home to observe (and no doubt record on her phone) a pro-Palestine demonstration in her predominately Jewish neighbourhood.

 

“The pro-Palestinian activists had reportedly gathered to demonstrate against the visit of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where they were met with Orthodox Jewish counter-protesters.” (CNN)

 

The counter-protestors were loud and boisterous, composed mostly of young males. When some of them started shouting at her (why?) and photographing her, she felt intimidated and put a scarf over her face to hide her identity. Perhaps the demonstrators thought it was a keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian scarf, and more began to surround her, yelling and even pushing her, until she felt unsafe. 

 

ACCORDING to her statement, the woman moved to the police cordon which was there to keep the protest ‘orderly’, but she says they did nothing for her. She was shouted at, spit on, had objects thrown at her, kicked and shoved as a lone policeman eventually took her from the increasing dangerous scene. Why the police did nothing and allowed just a single policeman to escort her from the demonstration is a good question. Perhaps they assumed she was an Arab-American or a pro-Palestinian demonstrator (she was neither, nor was she Jewish), and was ‘playing for the wrong team’ as far as they were concerned. Their behaviour warrants a public inquiry. 

 

👉Anti-Semitic Ukrainians harassing a Jewish woman in the streets of 1941 Lviv. 

👉Zionist Jewish-Americans harassing a Gentile woman in the streets of 2025 New York.

 

Not quite the circle of life, is it?

 

 

Cheers, Jake. ____________________________________

[Video of Medea Benjamin of Code Pink confronting Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir as he visits American Congressional offices in Washington in late April. That is one spunky gal!]