In a surprise move, dozens of protesters from Peleg Yerushalmi blocked the Coca-Cola Junction on Highway 4 at the entrance to Bnei Brak during rush hour on Wednesday morning in a protest against the arrest of bnei yeshivos.
Police responded with severe, unrestrained, and unprecedented violence against the protesters, including throwing stun grenades, beating them with batons, and even forcibly pulling down protesters’ pants or ripping them as they dragged them off the road. Some protesters were left with bloodied hands and feet and required hospital treatment.
Hatzalah reported that they “provided medical assistance to eight people who were lightly injured as a result of bruises and injuries. Some were evacuated to hospitals in United Hatzalah ambulances.”
The commander of the Bnei Brak–Ramat Gan police station was filmed deliberately tearing a protester’s pants and dragging him across the asphalt.
According to reports, the police were ordered in advance to use batons against the protesters.
Shas chairman Aryeh Deri issued a statement saying, “Itamar Ben‑Gvir, wake up! It is unacceptable that what the police refused to do on Kaplan Street against anarchists trying to destroy the country, they are now doing to citizens who are crying out because they’ve been turned into criminals simply for learning Torah. You know we oppose protests, but we cannot stand by in the face of this injustice and severe violence. You’ve proven that when you care, you know how to activate the police. Get up now and stop the police violence against Bnei Torah.”
MK Meir Porush stated: “The police’s conduct this morning does not resemble the conduct of a police force in a Jewish‑run state, nor of a police force in a country that claims to be a democracy. We’ve seen the violent dispersal of protests like we saw this morning in Turkey and Iran. The police commissioner and every officer involved should go home today.”
Shas MK Yoav Ben‑Tzur said: “The shocking footage from this morning, showing police using brutal force and injuring Chareidi demonstrators until they bled, exposes a painful truth. The Israel Police operates a selective and discriminatory enforcement system. At Kaplan protests, they speak through megaphones, and at Chareidi protests, they use batons, stun grenades, and disproportionate force. The police’s role is to maintain public order using reasonable and restrained force, not to exploit their uniforms to trample the law and shred public trust. I call on the National Security Minister to investigate police policy today and summon the violent officers for questioning. These are protesters, not terrorists. The blood of Chareidim is not hefker.”
Following the disturbing videos circulated on social media, associates of Minister Itamar Ben‑Gvir said: “The High Court has forbidden him from commenting on the use of police force at protests, but it is clear to everyone that using batons and stun grenades against people blocking a road is unreasonable even to those who oppose these protests.”
They added a warning: “If the police do not come to their senses, he will end the use of stun grenades in the police.”
Shortly afterward, in a statement posted on X, Minister Ben‑Gvir wrote: “Recently, there has been an increase in incidents where stun grenades were used against civilians, which is against regulations. I will therefore hold an urgent discussion to ensure that stun grenades are used only in exceptional cases and in accordance with police procedures.”
Ben Gvir then threatened: “If their use is not limited to such cases, there will be no stun grenades in the police.”
The sudden blockage caused massive traffic chaos throughout Bnei Brak and surrounding cities. Large forces of police and Yasam riot units from the Tel Aviv District were rushed to the scene, attempting to physically prevent protesters from entering the roadway and stopping traffic.
Israel Police said: “An illegal demonstration is currently taking place on Highway 4 near Bnei Brak. Individuals violating public order are blocking the road. Israel Police officers are on the scene and directing traffic to alternative routes. A police officer declared the demonstration unlawful before enforcement measures were taken.”
Police added: “Israel Police views the right to protest as a cornerstone of a democratic state and allows demonstrations as long as they are conducted within the framework of the law. At the same time, the police will not allow disturbances of public order, obstruction of freedom of movement, or any behavior that could endanger public safety.”
No matter what your opinion is about Chareidim serving in the IDF, or whether these protests are appropriate, one thing is a fact: You will NEVER see Israeli police use this type of brutal violence against the thousands of leftist protesters who shut down the Ayalon Highway as is seen with Chareidi demonstrators.
In the U.S., officers engaging in this type of despicable police brutality against unarmed protesters would face criminal charges, be stripped of their badges, and be thrown in prison.
People need to be held accountable for this, from the very top down, but it will never happen. Want to know why? Because Chareidi blood is cheap.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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I don’t understand why YWN defends these protesters, who cause a huge Chillul Hashem, delayed weddings, and possibly were responsible for deaths due to blocking ambulances and vilifies the Neturei Karta. There is no difference between these two groups.
play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Typical S.S. behavior.
Satmar rebbe was right. He forbade Jews to even go to the kosel. Look what happens at the kosel every Rosh Chodesh. Reform women of the wall come there disturbing its holiness under the protection of police and soldiers. This is Zionism. Then gay parades are held in all major Israeli cities with the protection of Israeli police and soldiers. Then chillul shabbos is in all major cities and even in yerushalayim traffic flows all around highways. Pork stores,tattoo shops and arresting yeshiva boys to force them to an army that mixes girls,gays and trans into their units. Now they want to force religious soldiers into tanks with girls. This is their Supreme Court of injustice. How right and smart the Satmar rebbe was to establish his chassidus in America where it has grown into tens of thousands and very soon hundreds of thousands. He saw the future of Zionism and their hatred of Torah big time. Their goal was to destroy the mind of Torah Jews and even if they wear a yarmulka as some of the police did but under the yarmulka they hate the Torah and will beat their fellow Jews with sticks. The capos in auswitz also dressed as Jews but led their brethren to the gas chambers.
NAZIS!!!
““The High Court has forbidden him from commenting on the use of police force at protests” Democracy???
Complaining that some law breakers are treated harsher than others is very childish and unbecoming for observant Jews. That there are some misbehaving idiots is regrettable but can be understood, but how can mainstream politicians support this?
This is why the Brisker Rav ZT”L was against participating in protests.
Secular Israelis are nechshad al shfichus damim.
Those are scenes straight out of Nazi Germany, or STASI Germany. Those cops should spend life in prison, at least, that is not a normal crime because it is clearly religiously or bigotry motivated. Not just lose their jobs, they must spend life at least in prison. Also, they never do anything to Arabs mowing religious Jews down, they lie and make up an excuse and those mowed down get no justice, and never ever do anything to paid communist “protesters” by the EU and Democrat Party meddling in Israel.
I wonder if Trump told Netanyahu to do this too, because the US wants more Jews for soldiers in their global wars they also blame on the Jews. While Trump seems to be having a meltdown and turning on the Jews. And Bibi can do nothing but latch Israel to Trump. It is not relevant, this behavior by the “police” (antisemitic mafia hit squads) and Oct.7 happened under the premiership of Bibi, he absolutely must lose his job. Hopefully Itamar will replace him.
Shocking and really disturbing.
The genocide commited by Israel is not in Gaza but in Israeli streets against chareidim.
If a police were to randomly enter a beis medrash and wack someone with a batton nothing will ever happen to the officer in this corrupt country
Notice the Gestapo demons are trying to embarrass and dehumanize them. That was their plan of action to dehumanize them. How does a “human being” come up with such tactics? And how did all the subhumans involved go along with such tactics? Clearly it came from the top. Imagine how deep into leftist or secular propaganda the subhuman luciferians must be to think that is normal behavior, and worse the other Gestapo going along with it. To people like Bennet and Lapid this behavior makes complete sense and is normal. To them they, these dark subhuman creatures, represent enlightenmment. And the wrong but at a much lower level proportionally of wrong, no one should block streets, on 1 to 10 of wrong blocking roads a 3, dumb and wrong at most 4, dehumanizing violence in uniform of your own citizens is never ever less than a 10 out of 10 on the evil scale. Your own citizens.
Ridiculous lack of sensitivity and understanding to put pictures and videos of the poor man without pants..do you have goim working for you????
And then we have homegrown Nazis even on these message boards that celebrate the pain and suffering of our Yeshiva brethren. It will be a joyous day when they perish
if you block a major road, you are endangering ambulances and you deserve to be beaten mercilessly.
@rivka-s: You are perfectly entitled to your opinion, so are the protesters. If they feel that the WAR against TORAH and JUDAISM not only justifies but necessitates those protests than your first complaint should go towards the police for lending a hand to A-G and S. Court in persecuting the chareidim! The protests, whether we agree or not, are not for no reason.
“Satmar rebbe was right.”
About what?
“He forbade Jews to even go to the kosel.”
And who listens? I’ve read על הגאולה ועל התמוה and it implies that even the current rebbi violates the spirit of the ruling when he goes to הר הזיתים which was liberated by צה”ל.
“Look what happens at the kosel every Rosh Chodesh.”
He forbade going to the כותל before those women started their nonsense. And his opposition to going to the כותל has nothing to with these women.
“disturbing its holiness”
The holiness remains undisturbed.
“This is Zionism.”
Before Zionism it was illegal to install a מחיצה. Your definition of Zionism is incorrect.
“Then chillul shabbos is in all major cities…”
Says a guy living in the chillul shabbos capital of the world. Actually, shabbos observance is widespread.
“even in yerushalayim traffic flows all around highways. ”
Not according to this new story.
“How right and smart the Satmar rebbe was to establish his chassidus in America…He saw the future of Zionism”
He left Israel because of lack of funds and his arguments with other Torah Jews. It was not about Zionism. In America he established his own semi-state despite opposition from the nations which violated the שלש שבועות according to his broad (mis)-interpretation thereof.
“He saw the future of Zionism…”
Israel today is more religious that he would have predicted. The future of Zionism is determined by the people who live in Israel. You have zero influence on the future of the nation from a distance of thousands of miles. Your choice of living with the סִיר הַבָּשָׂר implicitly provides your consent to all that bothers you about Israel.
” The capos in auswitz also dressed as Jews…”
The clothes of the kapos are well documented; they were not distinctly Jewish.
Try to get one thing right.
“Those are scenes straight out of Nazi Germany, or STASI Germany. ”
No they are not.
Joseph Goebbels,
“Typical S.S. behavior.”
You would know first-hand since you close relative was an SS Officer and you’re not even Jewish!
once again, I am calling on YWN to ban users who incite police violence. You can have different opinions within the bounds of Torah, you can agree or disagree with protests. However users who say “Kill protestors”, “beat protestors” “drive them over”, or justify the police brutality, there is no use for those opinions on the website, and they are endangering us.
I dont often comment but I feel I should. As a charedi serving in the IDF and an officer, I observe these demonstrations and can only sit and cry. The images are horrific. The army does not need the charedim. Furthermore, the ones it does feel it needs enlist anyway. Many charedim serve today. I know from the inside. The whole enlisting of charedim is purely a desire to uproot the Torah from Israel. The leftists control the army, the hospitals, the media, the airforce. The war raging in Israel isn’t between the Arabs and the Jews, its the charedim being afraid that the country is going to make them chilonim and the chilonim are afraid the charedim are gonna make them chareidi. Israel is a police state. The police here show no remorse to the chareidim. For all those who say chilled Hashem, you know nothing about the reality of this fight. I do not send my kids to the army even though I am there. It is not for frum bochrim even chashmonaim is not there for mainstream bochrim. I would rather miss a chasuna because I’m stuck in traffic than my son go to the army.
Reading these comments I finally understand that the emasculated jewish men in america just care about their own comfort..care nothing about our holy land or what is happening to torah jews here. Educate yourself so at least you cry on tisha’b’av for the right reasons. You have long abandoned Hashem and His beloved land that He chose for Am Yisroel. At least be honest with yourselves.. Oh ye I forgot..you are waiting for your houses and shuls to fly to EY with Mashiach without any effort on your part. Dummies!
The only way would be sanctions on Israel , as going forward no Charidei should be Traveling to Israel for Yom tov or Vacation or buying houses for pleasure , this will bring the government to the table as money talks both ways
Holding families hostage in their hot cars for hours is also violence.
That is true for whoever is protesting, but it adds an extra layer of Chutzpah when I can’t get home to my family from work until after 10:00 pm because the people who rely on me for financial support are blocking the roads and trains.
What is wrong with the charedim? they know it is going to happen and they deserve it. do not block cars. what does it help? these people are worse than pigs. and you keep posting about it. they deserve it, they deserve it. they are not learning anyway so they should do something useful who says it would be so terrible to go to the army they are pushing and shoving ladies anyway.
I want to know what the Gedolim of Yesteryear not even such a long time ago would have said. Maybe this is why Mesiah is not coming? cuz they are picking stupid fights blocking roads which helps nothing. maybe if they would sit and learn it would help. it doesnt happen thid dehumanization to people who are learning.
I do not understand why the police pull them away from cars. you sit in the street you get run over it is common sense it means that you want to get killed. I dont know why they waste their time on peleg pigs. Do not tell me Gedolim tell them Because i question what makes someone a Gadol.
Wow, it’s hard to understand how ostensibly frum Jews can defend the animalistic actions of these police beasts. How do you not see the HUGE double standard? For a year and half the entire country was held hostage by the stupid leftists. They caused tremendous damage, blocked highways, delayed weddings, blocked ambulances (stories were documented), caused countless missed flights etc. Did we hear from you then? What did the police do then? They called out from megaphones and, for the most part, stood by and allowed protests to continue. The fracture in the nation caused so much harm, it contributed in a huge way to the tragedy of October 7. Don’t tell me it’s childish to compare treatment of one group of law breakers to another. It may be childish when it’s a one off occurrence, not when it is a consistent pattern. What would you say if it were YOUR son locked up in prison for following his Rov, Rosh Yeshiva or Rebbe? You worry about delayed weddings, do you worry about the child sitting in prison or in a hospital? YOU are the Chilul Hashem. Learn the true definition of Kiddush and Chilul Hashem for once.
To: rivka_s
“I don’t understand why YWN defends these protesters, who are causing what many view as a significant chilul Hashem.”
But let me ask: did you also cry chilul Hashem when the nasty police officers barged into Chareidi homes at 3:00 a.m. to arrest yeshiva bochurim whose “crime” was learning Torah in the Jewish state—a state that exists, in part, so that Torah can be learned and upheld?
The reality is without these public protests, (including blocking public roads, making it inconvenient) nothing will change. The authorities know it, the protesters know it, and the public knows it. As a result, those opposed to the Chareidi position often invoke the “chilul Hashem” argument as a way to discredit the protests and win the public relations battle.
Whether one agrees with the protests or not, many in the Chareidi community no longer accept the claim that these protests are automatically chilul Hashem, in fact the opposite may be true, they are fighting for the kovod of Hashem and His Torah! Especially when we see actions taken against Torah learners that is the greatest form of chilul Hashem and a desecration of Torah itself.
And yet the Arabs, who receive the MOST government benefits, more than any other ethnicity, race, or religion, don’t have to lift a finger to serve. They can live in peace, planning their next terrorist massacre against innocent Jews. The way things are going now, secular Sedom Israel is heading towards a civil war. This racist war against such a large segment of their own population is not sustainable. There comes a point where the shish hits the fan, and it looks like that time is very close. Hamas and Hezbollah won’t have to lift a finger. Jews will kill Jews on the streets of Sedom/Israel. Oiy meh haya lanu.
The protestors are only hurting their own cause. Peaceful demonstration does not mean closing roads and harming commerce and disrupting everyday life. Go protest in a park, not in the streets. Hurting the economy is geneva. This is not how a Ben Torah acts.
To DavidtheKanoi What is the point in demonstrating? Did they ever see any results? does it harbor any good feeling? what are you saying that there is a point of demonstrating? Yes there is no point in demonstrating. if you want to show your learning. learn. i know millions of people who would not go near demonstrations because there is no good. so don’t say there is a reason. it is only to to annoy people
Everyone certainly has the right to their opinion and a right to express it. What one does not have, however, is the right to break the law and endanger drivers on roadways. Such conduct is juvenile and disgraceful. The police should be enforcing the law and these miscreants should be prosecuted.
Answer to JerusalemR
Satmar rebbe was right
About what you ask.
When he was alive they took holocaust survivors and yeminite children and put them into non religious kibbutzim. Cut their peyos and gave them pork to eat.
When he was alive there was forced autopsies where every Jew who died was cut up to pieces all over the country. It was Satmar boys that posted all over the street polls pictures of the bloody dead Jewish bodies cut up by force in the Zionist elite.
Had he been around today he would be in shock on the gay parades happening in every major city in Israel. You think he would be silent about a gay parades happening in yerushalayim. No wonder G-d turned the heart of Trump against Israel the very same day there was gay parades in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and at the Dead Sea Sodom. It’s not an accident. I decided never to visit Israel as it is in my eyes like Sodom. Most Israelis are NOT religious. Don’t fool yourself. Come see Brooklyns Jewish areas. Come see Monsey upstate and Monroe. Come see Lakewood,Jackson and Toms River. The biggest yeshivas in the world. Larger than Mir or ponevitch in Israel. The largest groups of chassidim live in America. The rebbes are here. Satmar,Bobov,Skver and many more. This is where a Jew has his freedom to live as a Jew. Israel has pork stores,tattoo shops and immorality big time. Don’t be fooled. Streets are open in most of Israel other than meah shearim,bnei brak and Beth shemesh. The country hates Orthodox Jews. America is free to be a Chareidi.
To: Israeli Chareidi :
Thank you for your comment.
It definitely makes sense.
I honestly believe that Dr Yidd is truly not Jewish.
It’s impossible that a Jewish
נשמה
Would talk so so negative aggressive and a fatal expression on another Yid.
I am willing to bet 1 million in cash.
wow wow wow!!
From some of the comments here, it seems Nichnas Yayin, Yotzeh Sod!!
Firstly,
@JerusalemR,
Do you suffer from confabulation or are you just cherry picking?
Satmar rebbe was right about zionism, it’s intentions and where it would lead, berachniut and bgshmiut, very simple, if you have any knowledge in his sefarim, you’ll know written there are many things that seem like nevuah, but as Chazal say, מיום שחרב בית המקדש ניטלה נבואה מן הנביאים וניתנה לחכמים, and then וחכם עדיף מנביא.
He forbade Jews to even go to the kosel, and who listens? Many thousands of religious Jews (yes there are many pious jews who do not follow that ruling, but there are many that do), which has nothing to do with visiting Har Hazetim, which is an entirely different topic, so I will leave that, as that comment of yours is simply a red herring and tu quoque attempt.
Look what happens at the kosel every Rosh Chodesh, which the Satmar Rav Ztkl”l forbade visiting, as with his far reaching foresight, knew that it’s capture would be used merely as a icon tool for nationalism, the state etc (eg when you go book a flight or another travel related booking to London UK, the background picture may be of the big ben, parliament, the changing of guards, a red double decker bus etc, and the picture for the same in israel, many times would be of the Kosel).
As an aside, just for your knowledge, the Satmar Rav was not the first to mention the issues caused by zionists at religious and holy areas in Eretz Yisrael, the Mankatcher Rav, long before the second world war already spoke about it, which can be found in his sefarim, eg go look at the sefer Mas’sot Yerushalaim, which documents his visit to Eretz Yisrael (written by a talmid accompanying him), and his visit to the Saba Kadisha, Rav Shlomo Yitzchak Elfandri Ztkl”l, who strongly discouraged him from visiting Miron already then, so yes disturbing its holiness was well described.
“This is Zionism.”
Before Zionism it was illegal to install a מחיצה. Your definition of Zionism is incorrect, yes and guess what? Before zionism the women dressed so modestly, but there goes the red herring again……
Says a guy living in the chillul shabbos capital of the world. Actually, shabbos observance is widespread. – And so is Chillul Shabbat, caused by, and entirely the responsibility of the israeli form of the spiritual final solution they carried out with the Yaldei Tehran, the Yemenite communities, Moroccan communities, Russian/Soviet communities, Asian communities (India, Afghanistan etc) etc etc…
“How right and smart the Satmar rebbe was to establish his chassidus in America…He saw the future of Zionism”
He left Israel because of lack of funds and his arguments with other Torah Jews. It was not about Zionism. In America he established his own semi-state despite opposition from the nations which violated the שלש שבועות according to his broad (mis)-interpretation thereof. -What an utterly drunken, stupidly ignorant and disgusting statement to make. Which “nation” opposed his apparent “semi-state” as you describe it? Are you ok? And if you are referring to the mild conflicts that occurred at the beginning of Kiryas Yoel with a very few people who didn’t want Jews moving there purely out of anti semitism, then that is a civil matter which is to do with someone buying or not buying property, not engaging in a violent of even peaceful civil war, anarchic or coup d’état… but I find it very interesting that you suddenly use the Shalosh Shevuot Lehalacha to attempt at smearing the name and P’sakim of a widely accepted Gadol (whether you follow his rulings or not, unless you are not religious….)…
“He saw the future of Zionism…”
Israel today is more religious that he would have predicted. The future of Zionism is determined by the people who live in Israel. You have zero influence on the future of the nation from a distance of thousands of miles. Your choice of living with the סִיר הַבָּשָׂר implicitly provides your consent to all that bothers you about Israel.
-What utter hogwash! You have entirely missed the point of the Satmar Rav, which is unsurprising given your unwavering sworn allegiance to the apikorsut conglomeration of nazi-judeo-nationalism and hegelical beliefs called zionism…
yes Baruch Hashem there is much more Shmirat Torah Umitzvot today, but that is all over the world, in fact, unlike the zionists would like you to believe, the Ba’al Teshuva movement did not even start in Eretz Yisrael, it started in the USA! Baruch Hashem that spread all over the world!
Besides, zionism with a kippa on it’s head is much worse, as the Brisker Rav Ztzkl”l said about the pasuk הצילני נא מיד אחי מיד עשו, the word achi comes before esav, because when he shows the face of a brother it is much more dangerous than when he shows his authentic real face of being your enemy. That is not said regarding the uptake of religious (authentically so) Jews in E.Y., rather regarding those that act like the pshat of the Brisker Rav.
And boy is there influence from outside israel, and not just strongly so, but it being the deciding factor in all areas, from gashmiut, like Trump literally holding israel to ransom, them not being able to do anything, if they withheld for even one day all money from israel, their own and private funding from the USA, the economy would be Tohu Ve’vahu!
And from the religious side, most definitely so!
Just look at when big major protests were held in the USA mainly and other countries as well, when lobbying both in favour and against israel was a major deciding factor in which directions things went…
” The capos in auswitz also dressed as Jews…”
The clothes of the kapos are well documented; they were not distinctly Jewish,- ,aybe but they when being Jewish, were distinctively known, so the point stands…
Try to get one thing right. (did you write that to yourself??)
It’s painful to see a pork eating degenerate Jew who’s brainwashed by the leftist media beat an otherwise innocent Jew. Israel has become an evil country that locks up Jews studying torah. Without torah, a person decends into a wild animal. This is what we see.
I wonder how all the people here defending these “peaceful demonstrators” would react if they missed a wedding or even a resteraunt reservation due to sitting in traffic for four hours because of the demonstrations. Be honest with yourselves and picture what the residents of Israel go through because of this.
@DavidtheKanoi, I bet if these protesters would spend the time blocking roads in shul saying Tehillim they would accomplish a lot more. Do you agree?
id123:
Charedi visits represents a small percentage of tourism. Given any boycott is not going to get 100% compliance, the effect in terms of percentage drop in tourist income would be miniscule.
Not buying apartments will do nothing, any may actually benefit the State. Demand is high enough that someone else will buy- so that takes care of the one time purchase tax. Ongoing real estate taxes don’t pay the bills. Thus, municipalities actually lose money on every apartment.
Flatbush yid:
“Satmar rebbe was right About what you ask.”
I still don’t what you’re referring to. What was he right about?
“Most Israelis are NOT religious.”
Most American Jews are NOT religious. Indeed American Jews are much less religious than Israeli Jews.
“You think he would be silent about a gay parades happening in yerushalayim.”
But enough about de Haan.
“The biggest yeshivas in the world.”
You think there is more Torah study in America than in Israel!?
” gay parades happening in every major city in Israel.”
More gay parades in major cities in America.
“Israel has pork stores,tattoo shops and immorality big time.”
This is false. You say “big time”, but the truth is that the overwhelming majority of Israeli Jews don’t eat pork.
On the other hand America has pork stores,tattoo shops and immorality big time. (Are you can’t get a tattoo, ham in Flatbush? What about those underground brothels in the area that occasionally make the news? Why do you still live in Flatbush?)
“Come see Brooklyns Jewish areas. Come see Monsey upstate and Monroe. Come see Lakewood,Jackson and Toms River”
Slim pickings indeed.
“Streets are open in most of Israel”
Streets are more open in America.
“The country hates Orthodox Jews.”
Not true. There is widespread concern about religious coercion and the economic burden of a growing community takes more than it contributes. But not widespread hate. Just look at poll numbers. You don’t see parties with an anti-religious platform doing well. The more strident secularist parties- Lieberman’s and the (so-called) Democrats pull in less than 20% of the vote.
In regards to hate, you got to look beyond Tom’s River and Brooklyn. Who is the mayor of NYC?! Who is your State Senator? Look up the polls that measure anti-Semitic sentiment in America. There is more hate in the USA then there is support for secularist parties in Israel.