On Sunday a crowd of violence-craving Jew haters ambushed and blocked the entrance to a synagogue in Los Angeles, enraged that property in Israel was being offered for sale to interested Jews. The failure of the LA Police to prevent Sunday’s violent attacks on Jews prompts the obvious question: Can’t you sue somebody to make this stop? The answer is yes, but with one important and entirely attainable yet too often elusive condition: You need to have people brave enough to stand up to the haters and use their name in court.
Police exist to protect the community from crime, especially violent crime. But you can’t just go to court and complain that the police didn’t show up when they should have; courts don’t want to be in the business of governing police departments.
But what courts can certainly do is require equality: Jews are entitled to the same kind and degree of protection for their events that all other groups get. The LA police certainly know how to show up, and they do show up to ensure safety when the people being protected aren’t Jews, especially the “wrong” kind of Jews—you know, traditional Jews who live the commitment to Zion that’s at the center of our Torah, our beliefs, customs, and rituals. It certainly doesn’t look like there was equality in this case.
What happened outside Congregation Adas Torah happened because the LA police treated this event differently than they treat similar events when violence is reasonably expected. Here are just a few of the things they did, and didn’t do, when they do the opposite for everyone else:
1. They didn’t put up barriers to separate ideological opponents, when they routinely use that tool to protect people from demonstrators who are expected to be menacing or violent.
2. They didn’t ensure that the Jews trying to get into their shul could do so safely. Instead they left the pro-Hamas crowd right on the sidewalk leading to the shul’s front door.
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Author: Ruth King
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