Anti-Israel Protesters Shut Down Hectic 405 Freeway in Los Angeles
Protest organizers targeted American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Democratic National Convention (slated for next week) in their statement.
Mike LaChance recently reported that 26 people face charges for their antics in anti-Israel protests that shut down San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge.
Now, a group of anti-Israel goons decided to take the party down to Southern California by staging a sit-in along Los Angeles’ busy 405 freeway (a true transportation lifeline of the region), demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.
Interestingly, the group organizing this inanity targeted the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Democratic National Convention (slated for next week) in its statement.
Protesters from the group IfNotNow Los Angeles walked onto the southbound 405 Freeway near Venice Boulevard around 9 a.m. PT Tuesday creating an instant traffic jam.
Video from Fox 11 showed the group walking along the highway carrying posters as piles of cars began mounting behind them.
California Highway Patrol were seen arresting the dozens of protesters and sitting them along the road barrier.
‘American Jews and allies have shut down the 405 freeway in West Los Angeles in protest of U.S. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza,’ the organizers said in a statement to KABC.
‘With one week to go before the Democratic National Convention, protesters are coalescing around three demands for all elected officials: call for a lasting ceasefire, reject the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and legislate an arms embargo.’
Legal Insurrection readers may recall that AIPAC spent $8.5 million through its super PAC United Democracy Project to oust Squad member Cori Bush. Toward the end of last year, anti-Israel activists threw red paint and smoke bombs at the home of the AIPAC president.
The demonstrators from IfNotNowLA claim the group is “a movement of anti-Apartheid American Jews working to end our community’s support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”
The demonstration comes on Tisha B’av, an annual fast day in the Jewish religion and considered “the saddest day on the Jewish calendar.”
A total of eight arrests were made, CHP confirmed to KTLA, adding that there were around 40 protesters, most of whom left on foot when police arrived.
IfNotNowLA is part of the larger IfNotNow movement. More information about the group can be found here.
The California Highway Patrol dispatched the demonstrators quickly when they arrived. The officers ended this dangerous traffic disruption within 20 minutes thanks to their hard work.
Boom. In just 15 minutes, the CHP drove away the protesters cars blocking the freeway, got the 405 freeway flowing again and arrested the 9 comrades. Great job California Highway Patrol!! https://t.co/GWCVcZHCii pic.twitter.com/0siyVeOhYN
— BK 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦 (@BKCaliNative) August 13, 2024
While no potentially life-threatening issues were reported because of the traffic backup, many went on X to mock and deride the event.
This is an unproductive protest.
These people are just trying to get to work. Now they hate you and your cause.
And I’m pretty sure none of them are policy makers.
— Paul Easter (@easter8986) August 13, 2024
🚨 CALIFORNIA NOW: Watch Narcissists Shut Down Highway
⚠️ WATCH: Hijacking Tisha B’Av, Fake Jews Demand Ceasefire
📰 Today in Los Angeles, histrionic attention seekers associated with IfNotNow blocked the 405 freeway, causing massive disruption in a stunt aimed at pushing their… pic.twitter.com/TkoAhQS5Om
— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) August 13, 2024
I hope you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. These are just people trying to go to work.
— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) August 13, 2024
While LA seems to have smartly dealt with this band of lunatics, I suspect this may be a warm-up for Chicago. I suspect the DNC next week is going to be lit.
Perhaps this experience may offer some valuable lessons for Chicago’s convention organizers and security personnel there.
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Run them over
Wife told her Semi drivers during the St Floyd riots to not stop for people blocking roads under any circumstance. Lock your doors, idle through them while laying on the air horn. Oddly enough, all those miscreants didn’t throw themselves in front of the trucks but scrambled out of the way
More blue vs. blue conflict. Pass the popcorn.
Think about the cost of idling vehicles, fuel, wear and tear, the cost born by hourly workers, the cost to business disrupted. It is staggering.
If I were an auto parts store, I’d be running a special on MAGA Bull Bars right about now.
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Maybe an industrial snow blower?
So eight arrests were made. Any change of follow-up on whether these eight are released without charges?
while socialist mayor bass was enjoying he limelight in paris and flying around with the athletes
During the 1992 L.A. riots, Reginald Denny taught me to never stop for an angry mob blocking a street. NEVER.
YOU are one of the very few who learned from HIS suffering.
This nonsense will end when about five million So Cal drivers demonstrate they were also paying attention back then.
The percentage of actual Jews in that Jew-washing organization is probably about the same as in the average Messianic Jewish Congregation or missionary organizations that target Jews — well under half and sometimes barely in double digits.
Aspiring roadkill.
They’re being groomed to disregard other human beings’ legitimate concerns.
They’re being trained to overcome the normal inhibitions of reasonably normal law-abiding citizens
It’s a process, probably like “breaking in” a new girl for prostitution.
Some will go home and say “Nah, not for me.” But some will return for more, and for more………
Won’t end with blocking traffic on the I-405
Btw the reason that the OBidens cracked down so hard on the J6ers us for this very resin. They understand hue the grooming works. And they aimed to nip it in the bud.
Same with the new folks running things in our mother country.
It’s a two tier system. Because it’s intended to be a two-tier system.
Sad.
Try this in downtown Birmingham around 4-5:00 pm when everybody in the city is on I-65 and I-20/59 going home. Malfunction Junction would be the best place for their little show. The gang bangers from the east and west sides of town will join the country Bubbas in taking care of the problem.
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Which is why it won’t be tried in Birmingham.
They will not be charged or, if they are, the charges will quietly be dropped when all the hubbub dies down.
There’s a reason that these types of “protests” only occur in liberal states and cities. Try this crap in the “wrong” place and they’d get real jail time; which is why they do it where they do it.
George Gascón wont do a thing. He may give them medals.
So the CHIPPIES put the cuffs on eight of them? Out of how many who were kissing the tarmac with their bums?
The ONLY way to deal with such things is for a horde of BlueSuits, each with a large bundle of bracelets, run into the sitting crowd and begin using one par to clip two protestors together, then add another, until everyone not inside a car is clipped together. Then march them all onto the large fifty passenger paddy wagons, bring them Downtown and book them all. Charge with rioting, public obstruction, reckless endangerment.. two or three felonies each. And do this very quickly so traffic can flow again.NO ONE released without posting a level of bond sufficient to guarantee their reappearance for their rial. Indictment comes wile they are still wearing their cuffs they were warded in the freeeway.
One time done like tis and CHP will once again be feared and respected, and such insanity will end.
CHP is feared and respected by gun owners. To confiscate legal guns, they went all the way to New Orleans during Katrina and broke down doors.
If they want a ceasefire they should demand that Hams surrender and turn over their terrorists to Israel for punishment.