CNN’s Van Jones slammed the political Left this week after far-Left pro-Hamas protesters attacked Jews outside of a synagogue in southern California over the weekend.
The pro-Hamas extremists gathered in front of the Adas Torah synagogue on Sunday morning to block entrance into the building and to disrupt a planned peaceful rally of pro-Israel protesters.
“Listen, if you don’t like what’s happening in Gaza, it’s your right to protest. That’s not a problem. But you protest a policy. You don’t protest a people,” Jones said. “You don’t bum-rush a Jewish neighborhood and run up on a synagogue. That’s not protesting a policy. That’s protesting a people. And that is a cross of any line in America. And it has to be called out.”
“And you have to also understand the context here. This is a neighborhood that’s already been traumatized, not just October 7th, which traumatized all Jewish communities, but that neighborhood in particular,” he continued. “Last year, in February, not one, but two Jewish men, Orthodox Jewish men, were gunned down, were shot in two back-to-back hate crimes. So you’re dealing with the community that’s already traumatized. They’re already fearful. And then you go and you do something like this.”
He said that what the Left-wing group did was not a protest but a “pogrom” — an event designed to violently attack Jews.
“I think it’s a little bit naive for some of the people to think that if Israel would just suddenly just stop doing what it’s doing, that rainbows and bunnies and sunshine would break out over the Middle East, it would all be fine,” he said. “The hostages have to be returned. People have called for a ceasefire, call for ceasefire on both sides. Hamas is still firing its rockets. They still have hostages kidnapped. So this is a complex issue. But here’s what’s not complicated. Politics can be complicated. Geopolitics can be really complicated.”
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“How you treat your neighbors, how you treat people in your community, is not complicated. You don’t run up — I haven’t seen Jewish people running up on mosques with Israeli flags. If they did that, I’d be denouncing that, too,” he continued. “There are certain things you don’t do. It is a red line. If you want to be a part [of] protests and they say we’re going to go to a Jewish community center, we’re going to go to a mosque, we’re going to go to a Jewish restaurant, that’s not a protest. That’s the pogrom. That’s an anti-Jewish bigoted act.”
WATCH:
“I haven’t seen any Jewish people in America running up on mosques with Israeli flags.
Protest a policy, not a people. What we saw outside of the synagogue in LA is a pogrom.”
Thank you @VanJones68 pic.twitter.com/vfLmrtuDHq
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June 25, 2024
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CNN’s Van Jones slammed the political Left this week after far-Left pro-Hamas protesters attacked Jews outside of a synagogue in southern California over the weekend.
The pro-Hamas extremists gathered in front of the Adas Torah synagogue on Sunday morning to block entrance into the building and to disrupt a planned peaceful rally of pro-Israel protesters.
“Listen, if you don’t like what’s happening in Gaza, it’s your right to protest. That’s not a problem. But you protest a policy. You don’t protest a people,” Jones said. “You don’t bum-rush a Jewish neighborhood and run up on a synagogue. That’s not protesting a policy. That’s protesting a people. And that is a cross of any line in America. And it has to be called out.”
“And you have to also understand the context here. This is a neighborhood that’s already been traumatized, not just October 7th, which traumatized all Jewish communities, but that neighborhood in particular,” he continued. “Last year, in February, not one, but two Jewish men, Orthodox Jewish men, were gunned down, were shot in two back-to-back hate crimes. So you’re dealing with the community that’s already traumatized. They’re already fearful. And then you go and you do something like this.”
He said that what the Left-wing group did was not a protest but a “pogrom” — an event designed to violently attack Jews.
“I think it’s a little bit naive for some of the people to think that if Israel would just suddenly just stop doing what it’s doing, that rainbows and bunnies and sunshine would break out over the Middle East, it would all be fine,” he said. “The hostages have to be returned. People have called for a ceasefire, call for ceasefire on both sides. Hamas is still firing its rockets. They still have hostages kidnapped. So this is a complex issue. But here’s what’s not complicated. Politics can be complicated. Geopolitics can be really complicated.”
CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP
“How you treat your neighbors, how you treat people in your community, is not complicated. You don’t run up — I haven’t seen Jewish people running up on mosques with Israeli flags. If they did that, I’d be denouncing that, too,” he continued. “There are certain things you don’t do. It is a red line. If you want to be a part [of] protests and they say we’re going to go to a Jewish community center, we’re going to go to a mosque, we’re going to go to a Jewish restaurant, that’s not a protest. That’s the pogrom. That’s an anti-Jewish bigoted act.”
WATCH:
“I haven’t seen any Jewish people in America running up on mosques with Israeli flags.
Protest a policy, not a people. What we saw outside of the synagogue in LA is a pogrom.”
Thank you @VanJones68 pic.twitter.com/vfLmrtuDHq
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June 25, 2024
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