I was on site when a mob of Islamists and leftists attacked the Adas Torah synagogue in Los Angeles. The synagogue was besieged and Jews were prevented from entering. Multiple Jewish community members were assaulted while the police for the most part did nothing. No arrests were made of the attackers who came armed and masked. While the media tried to once again cover up or redirect blame for the violence, there was enough outrage that a few L.A. legislators actually attempted to introduce bills banning more of the same.
Who would possibly object to that? CAIR. The Islamist group whose leader celebrated the Oct. 7 attacks.
After pressure campaigns totaled previous efforts to stop the pro-terrorist violence, the L.A. Board of Supervisors, which had backed the UCLA attacks on Jewish students, introduced a proposal for a “bubble zone” that would ban preventing people from entering a school, healthcare facility or house of worship.
Or harassing people in close proximity to these sites for political reasons.
I’m not a big fan of the “bubble zone” legislation, which fails to deal with what’s going on, but CAIR claims that preventing them from harassing Jews going to synagogue interferes with their rights.
The CAIR press release defends the attacks on the Adas Torah synagogue and claims that preventing hateful mobs from attacking synagogues would be “penalizing peaceful protests simply based on their proximity to geographic landmarks,” and that “this motion threatens to push protesters out of sight, effectively chilling their speech, further disenfranchising already vulnerable groups.”
The “geographic zones” in question would be houses of worship.
The houses of worship that the mobs CAIR supports seem to want to attack.
What kind of organization needs to make the case for blocking synagogues and harassing Jews? CAIR does.