Arab mobs in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Lod went on wild rampages overnight Monday “in solidarity” with their Arab brethren in the Gaza Strip, ransacking and torching shuls, desecrating Sifrei Torah, and setting Jewish schools on fire, including a Talmud Torah.
The Arabs, who raised Palestinian and Hamas flags in the course of the riots, also tried to set a police station on fire, attacked the Lod city hall and a museum, and tore down traffic lights and street signs.
The Arab mob also attacked the medical staff at the nearby Assaf HaRofeh Hospital, and some patients had to be evacuated for their safety. Below is a video of the Arabs outside the hospital:
עוד זווית לכאוס אתמול, התיעוד הזה מאסף הרופא של בני משפחות הפצועים מהירי בכניסה לבית החולים pic.twitter.com/qvHEQrPPhq
— Bar Peleg (@bar_peleg) May 11, 2021
זה לא ליל הבדולח, גם לא מאורעות תרפ"ט.
זה לוד של תשפ"א.
את הרעה הזאת צריך לחסל לפני שהיא תתפוצץ לנו בפנים.זה מה שקורה כשהאויב רואה איך נרקמת ממשלת שנאה רופסת שנשענת על קולות של מי שתומך בטירוף. pic.twitter.com/28gToqMSm0
— אוסנת מארק Osnat Mark (@OsnathilaMark) May 11, 2021
לוד. בוקר טוב לכיתת א' שרופה ברמות אשכול בגלל שער שכם. או שייח' ג'ראח? כבר מבולבל (צילום: נדב שטרסברג. לשימוש חופשי) pic.twitter.com/q5xjv0nLbF
— 🇮🇱Plaksin & Co. (@arielplaksin1) May 11, 2021
פוגרום.
ספרי קודש נשרפים ע"י פורעים ערבים בכיתה א' בתלמוד התורה בלוד.עשור של שלטון נתניהו הביאו לאובדן משילות שהפך לאיום אסטרטגי על מדינת ישראל. pic.twitter.com/z99QrutHa6
— Matan Kahana מתן כהנא (@MatanKahana) May 11, 2021
לילה קשה בלוד. הצתה של התלמוד תורה והמכינה הקדם צבאית. הנה טעימה מהתוצאה. תחושות קשות pic.twitter.com/xQz8MaAhWv
— ofralax (@ofralax2) May 11, 2021
שכונת רמת אשכול, לוד, לפני כמה דקות pic.twitter.com/qkgqGbRVU1
— רועי שרון Roy Sharon (@roysharon11) May 10, 2021
The Arab mobs also threw stones and firebombs at Jewish homes and due to the multiple areas in the city where riots were taking place, police forces couldn’t reach every scene on time. Some Jewish residents whose lives were being threatened opened fire. One Arab was killed and two were wounded.
The resident who opened fire was later arrested by the police. His neighbors said that their lives were in danger and although they called the police dozens of times, they took over an hour to arrive. They initially fired shots in the air but nothing deterred the rioters until they shot at them, they said.
“It’s a sad morning for all of us in Lod,” wrote Lod Mayor Yair Revivo on Tuesday morning. “Seventy years of coexistence were trampled by Arabs rioters in a series of pogroms, destruction, vandalism, destruction of government symbols, shattering windshields, and throwing Molotov cocktails at the new town hall we began using just last week.”
“There was enormous damage to the mosaic museum, in which tens of millions of shekels were invested, the burning of shuls, a Talmud Torah, dozens of vehicles, burning garbage dumps, destroying Israeli flags and, worse than that, lowering the Israeli flag and raising the Palestinian flag, on a night of riots that injured policemen and residents who found themselves besieged.”
“It’s unfortunate that we’ve reached a situation in which a resident feels his life is at risk and uses firearms in the absence of a speedy response from the security forces who couldn’t manage to arrive due to the multiple incidents,” Revivo wrote.
בוקר עצוב לכולנו בלוד, 70 שנות דו-קיום וחיים משותפים נרמסו במחי יד ע"י צעירים פורעים ערבים ברצף אירועי פוגרום, השחתה, ונדליזם, פגיעה בסמלי שלטון, ניפוץ שמשות והשלכת בקבוקי תבערה לעבר בית העירייה החדש שרק בשבוע שעבר נכנסנו אליו >>> pic.twitter.com/k4MuWBdx8K
— יאיר רביבו – ראש העיר לוד (@Yair_Revivo) May 11, 2021
Arab riots and pogroms also took place in the neighboring town of Ramle, where rioters shattered store windows and set fires and threw cement blocks and rocks at a Hesder Yeshiva while the students were in the building. The yeshivah’s Rosh Yeshivah said he called the police when the incident began but they didn’t arrive.
Below is a photo of a Tashmishei Kedushash store in Ramle with its windowfront shattered, the only store on the street that was damaged, due to its Jewish symbols in the window.
ליל הבדולח של רמלה.
מכל החנויות ברחוב הרצל בעיר, זו נפגעה הכי קשה. יודעים למה?
הסממנים היהודים של חנות תשמישי הקדושה לא באה טוב בעיניים לפורעים הערביים… pic.twitter.com/WafzOW6h5H
— שלמה ריזל (@shlomo_rizel) May 10, 2021
כל הארץ כמרקחה: ערבים מנפצים כעת אוטובוס של אגד בעיר רמלה. pic.twitter.com/HIj3iotfdm
— אבי רבינא Avi Ravina (@AviRabina) May 10, 2021
Arab riots also took place in Haifa and outside Arab towns and villages throughout the country. Israel Police recruited eight reserve Border Police battalions to help restore order.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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10 Responses
Has sleepy joe seen these clips before even daring to mention restraint? I know Meir Kahane HY’D is watching the real thing from Gan Eden and being a Meileitz Yosher pleading for the immediate expulsion of every single arab from Israel.
Well this never makes it to the news obviously but even if it would the ignorant inhabitants of the world would justify it since the Jews attacked the precious Al aqsa mosque and Palis are just angry and rightfully attacking back. Think of the women and children on the front lines!
Classic Israeli government, arresting Jews acting in self defense. They should be out bagging the bloodthirsty rioting animals, not arresting Jews for having to defend themselves when the state failed (once again) to protect its citizens.
AOC said! “Well they should be mosques, not Shuls!”
And the arabs claim Israel is starting a religious war.
The Arabs are not against Israel, they are against Judaism. In response,, Israel needs to strengthen Judaism.
“The resident who opened fire was later arrested by the police.” Were any of the Arab rioters arrested? Or is this BLM all over again?
Peaceful coexistence?
R’ Meir Kahana was thrown out of the Knesset for proposing a bill word-for-word from the Rambam.
You can stay as long as you accept Jews being in charge. Only Jews have vote.
Common sense (let them have their own municipal system like the Egyptian government did for Jews and Xtians.)
Instead they are “spoiled”!
And when an Israeli shoots an Arab rioter he gets arrested!
Suicidal and crazy!
Israel warns before they bomb; crazy!
The Zionists love to claim “Never Again”, yet here they had a pogrom right in their own paradise.
How pathetic.
More sad, however, is that some Jews still think the Zionists are “good for the Jews”. If only they would learn the sugya, they would immediately be able to remove from themselves the fallacy of Zionism and recognize Zionism for the anti-Jewish heresy and idolatry – and a recognizably dangerous one – that is Zionism.