“You money suckers” – Vile Anti-Israel Mob Disrupts Holocaust Remembrance Discussion at Berkeley City Council Meeting
“Susanne DeWitt, 89, chairman of the Israel Action Committee of the East Bay and a Holocaust survivor from Germany, was shouted down while speaking about the October 7 attacks and rising antisemitism in the US”
Anti-Israel protesters disrupted a Berkeley City Council meeting this week during a discussion on Holocaust remembrance. They even interrupted a speaker who is a Holocaust survivor.
This was disgusting and over the top, even for Berkeley.
The Jewish Chronicle reports:
Palestine demonstrators heckle Holocaust survivor at Berkeley City Council meeting
A Berkeley City Council meeting on Tuesday descended into chaos as a mob of pro-Palestine demonstrators harassed council members and Israel supporters, calling them “Zionist pigs”, “genocide enablers”, “murderers” and “money suckers”.
Jewish News of Northern California reported that a group of about 10 Israel supporters sat at the front of the room while roughly 30 demonstrators held signs with the faces of Gazans who have been killed and chanted between every speech “murdered by Israel”.
Susanne DeWitt, 89, chairman of the Israel Action Committee of the East Bay and a Holocaust survivor from Germany, was shouted down while speaking about the October 7 attacks and rising antisemitism in the US, with one protester shouting, “Lies!”
During the twice monthly meeting, the council met to discuss, among a number of other items, a declaration to honour Yom HaShoah, the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day which will fall on 5 May this year, and the allocation of funds for the city’s virtual event…
The incident became increasingly hostile as one protester threw the lectern microphone at the man who had set it up, and a staff member with the Jewish Community Relations Council Bay Area had his phone grabbed and thrown across the room when he tried to record the demonstrators.
Wengraf told Jewish News of Northern California: “There are many people who are intimidated and will not come to our meetings in person because they don’t feel safe.”
Watch below:
This is repulsive. The mob burst into a Berkeley City Council meeting to scream obscenities during a discussion on Holocaust remembrance programming.
They managed to hit all the classic Jewish tropes:
"Go chase the money. You money suckers"
"You are traitors to this country"… pic.twitter.com/aWUki9lzKG— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) March 28, 2024
WATCH: Susanne DeWitt, an 89 year-old Holocaust survivor who was arrested and sent to Dachau Concentration Camp at age 4, was repeatedly heckled by demonstrators as she spoke in favor of the City of Berkeley's Holocaust Remembrance Day proclamation. pic.twitter.com/B3mx5mjjSo
— JCRC Bay Area (@SFJCRC) March 28, 2024
Absolute sickos. Unmistakable bigots. https://t.co/g4mT5lh4R1
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 29, 2024
Joel Pollak of Breitbart News reports that the mayor has denounced the protesters:
Berkeley mayor Jesse Arreguin condemned the riot on Thursday: “I am outraged over the hateful and deeply antisemitic behavior we saw at Tuesday’s Council meeting. Heckling people including Holocaust survivors, then co-opting its message for an anti-Jewish agenda, threats and hate speech will not be tolerated. We will not be intimidated.”
The University of California Berkeley, which is located in the city, has been a hotbed of radical activism for decades — and has also been one of the most antisemitic campuses in the country since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.
Jewish students report that they are barred by pro-Palestinian activists from entering the main gate of the campus at certain times of day, and that visibly Jewish students are subject to harassment and bullying.
These protesters have been weirdly focused on city council meetings for months. In January, a similar mob had to be removed from a city council meeting in Santa Cruz when they became violent.
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Every Jew in America needs a pistol, a rifle, 1000 rounds of ammunition and know how to use them
This sweet lady shouldn’t have to deal with this.
Also meant to say…yes and more of this as to Jewish people being armed.
I am thinking 12-18″ of 3/4 or 1″ pipe.
And watch them run like the cowards they are right to the police.
Unfortunately the decision by the leftists and some on the center and right to adjust the norms of civic culture, removing public shame for certain behaviors as one example, has led us here.
Stocks would do wonders for these people. Rotten stuff on hand.
Very cost effective too. They can call it community service. They can keep their jobs, feed themselves and continue their lives in the case of non-violent crimes; and while they are restrained in public they’ll have to listen to bystanders explaining the error of their ways.
1000 rounds? Gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.
These evil and disgusting manifestations of goose-stepping Muslim supremacy, Islamofascism and Jew-hate, have been directly and willfully enabled, incited and encouraged by the vile Dhimmi-crat Party and its leading apparatchiks (e.g., narcissist-incompetent, Obama; crime boss, Biden, et al.), for decades, via their innumerable, dishonest and corrosive anti-Israel slanders and vilification, combined with an equally dishonest and feckless refusal to condemn the intrinsic pathologies of the supremacist, totalitarian, belligerent, hate-filled and pathology-laden ideology of “Submission,” while contemptibly casting that ideology’s most fanatical adherents as alleged and fallaciously styled “victims.”
Bush started this crap with his Religion of Peace and open Muslim immigration
The Islamofacists have achieved the most celebrated status in modern day America; victimhood. They have led pr campaigns, bought legislation to categorize any realistic assessments of the cult as hate speech punishable by law or otherwise discouraged. See “Stealth Jihad” by Robert Spencer.
These Muslim supremacists and non-Muslim, useful idiot dhimmis, are profoundly stupid. If there are any traitors to the U.S., I’d submit that they are those reprobates who are practicing and promoting genocidal, Jew-hating Islamofascism, along with the non-practitioners who fecklessly grant undeserved moral cover, legitimacy and deference to this wretched and fascistic ideology of hate.
Imagine if someone stood up at a city council meeting in Oakland and started screaming racial epithets at the black council members. The story would be gigantic and I imagine Garland would send an army of FBI agents to investigate.
“threats and hate speech will not be tolerated.”
Really? Because it looks like the threats and hate speech just ate your lunch. Were any of the disruptors arrested and charged with disturbing a public meeting?
California Penal Code 403 PC makes it a crime for a person to willfully disturb or break up a public assembly or meeting. Doing so is a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to 6 months in jail and fines of up to $1000.00.
It’s hard to feel sorry for people who vote in politicians who refuse to enforce the laws to defend them.
I have had enough of the “appeasing the crocodile” attitude and would like to see the water boil with the blood of a predator than to watch the weak cower in fear from the safety of the shore.
Isn’t it interesting that both the disruptors and the disrupted probably vote for the SAME candidates every election?
The question is, are Jews learning from this and ready to reconsider their support for Dems.
It’s so profoundly sad to see this, and such a simple strategy that Palestinians and their enablers use, get everyone to unite in hatred for one group, Jews, who we can blame for everything wrong in our lives and the world. That’s how Jews can be anti-American and pro-American at the same time to these idiotic protestors depending upon their preferred viewpoints about America. It how you can unite neo-nazis, transgenders, Muslims, communists and right wingers all together. Seemingly disparate issues can all be boiled down to one common enemy, that elderly Holocaust survivor, she’s the cause of all the worlds ills. How dare she have ever survived her torture and attempted extermination.
Opps, I was aiming for upvote
Just imagine when the Dem Party loses control of their majority underlings.
Imagine heckling a Holocaust survivor and thinking you’re the good guy.
I would have expected no less at Berkeley. They’ve lost all perspective of reality with their incessant indoctrination.
What absolutely ugly peoples
https://www.dailywire.com/news/taliban-vows-it-is-returning-to-stoning-women-to-death-in-public
So all Muslims are innocent of terrorist atrocities but all Jews are to blame for Israel’s response to the atrocities?
Individuals are only responsible for their individual actions not those of others. IMO when we adopt lefty language of group ID and Tribalism we are assisting the leftists to install group ID as the replacement for individual action, individual merit and individual responsibility.
Biden just imported another million of these anti-semitic proto-terrorists.
Holocaust remembrance discussions are themselves political – dedicated to preserving victim status, so it’s something of a tie. The other side wants to remind you that they’re the victims here.
The disruption form is idiotic of course but seems to be ingrained today on every side, thanks to the audience for soap opera news.
Idiocy abounds! A REMERBERANCE is only political when those opposed make it so. Get a clue!
Personally I view Holocaust Remembrance as a lesson in the human capacity for evil when we allow ourselves to be hoodwinked into elevating group ID to create a subhuman ‘other’ to blame for our problems. Especially when those problems were of our making. It’s always easier to find someone else to blame instead of demonstrating the discipline to be introspective and the intellectual honesty to admit our our faults.
‘They’ are always available to blame. ‘They’ might be Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus Buddhists, Pagans, Wiccans, Druids, Atheists, Deist, Agnostic or something else. Could be regional rivals, political foes or a feud no one quite remembers how/why it began. In the end the supposed reason doesn’t matter as.much as the hate. That’s what we should avoid b/c that hate will damage us as much as any foe by causing us to lose our own humanity.
I think that your comment illustrates when the Holocaust which was an attempt to render Europe Judenrein via industrial and technological means even if it meant losing a world war is transposed into universalist woke gobbldygook. when dealing with any other conflict on the globe.
If you are.implying that I am universally opposed to any repetition of what was done to Jews, Gypsy and others deemed undesirable by the National Socialists under the reign of Hitler you are correct.
Or you could consider this…”Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”….it’s down right idiotic not to allow victims who are survivors to teach us.
I’ve read over ten shelf feet of Jewish scholarship for pleasure. I can’t remember any of them being into cliches.
Key to Jewish creativity is alienation. In the smart parts it turns up as scholarship. In the not so smart parts it’s remembrances, its cultural purpose there being to discourage assimilation.
It’s ridiculous to have a fight over it with an even dumber group. Fight with scholarship.
Yeah, that’s the ticket. They can beat Hamas terrorists with school books.
You are so warped.
Key to Jewish creativity is alienation. In the smart parts it turns up as scholarship. In the not so smart parts it’s remembrances, its cultural purpose there being to discourage assimilation.
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come on–a first-person account of a lived experience doesn’t have a damned thing to do with scholarship–ratther has the quality of being authentic, of being truthful–don’t care if you’ve read a couple hundred shelf feet of third-party analysis, speculations, musings, propaganda, etc, a first-person account trumps it all–they were there
This is Nazism 21st Century sty;e
Well deserved
F-U Hamas/Palestinians
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/03/29/shock-as-ap-photo-of-shani-louks-corpse-wins-picture-of-the-year/
These antisemites will be running for office soon, and then positions of power. The City Council of NYC is an example. The radicals make it their goal to destroy democracy from within.
Alarm bells are ringing for me.
If nobody was arrested and charged for this outrage they are already in power, elected or not.
JR the Simp is noticeably absent from this thread with his typical “conservative” scolding. How dare we notice that mooslims may not enrich the West!!
From the hills to the Bay.
Berkeleyites are cray, cray, cray.