Zionist org tells Jews to protect themselves from antisemitic attacks
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Zionist org tells Jews to protect themselves from antisemitic attacks
Called on Trump on Friday to expedite the deportation of undocumented immigrants, it labeled "ticking time bombs" in response to recent antisemitic attacks in Washington, DC, and Boulder.
Chabad militia 88 224(photo credit: Ariel Jerozolimski)
An international Zionist youth movement urged American Jews to arm themselves and called on President Donald Trump on Friday to expedite the deportation of undocumented immigrants it labeled "ticking time bombs" in response to recent antisemitic attacks in Washington, DC, and Boulder.
According to a Betar Worldwide press release issued Friday from Boulder, CEO Jon Mantell and vice chairman of Betar worldwide Ronn Torossian—an American PR executive and pro-Israel activist—said, "It's time for Jews to arm themselves—nobody is coming to save us. Every Jew a 22, stay alive with a 45." They warned that recent attacks could have ended differently had a Jewish bystander returned fire.
On June 1, in Boulder, 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman allegedly threw Molotov cocktails and deployed a makeshift flamethrower at participants of a weekly solidarity walk for Israeli hostages, injuring 13 people—among them an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor—and wounding the suspect himself. Two victims remained hospitalized as of June 2. Both the FBI and Boulder police treated the incident as an antisemitic terror attack.
On May 21, a gunman opened fire outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., killing Israeli embassy employees Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, after shouting "Free, free Palestine!" Authorities classified the shooting as antisemitic terrorism amid a broader surge of violence targeting Jews in the United States.
Founded in 1923 by Revisionist Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky in Riga, Latvia, Betar long championed Jewish self-defense and nationalist ideals.
Betar was blacklisted by the ADL for alleged Islamaphobia and ties to Kahanism
Mantell said Betar US had submitted a list of hundreds of alleged pro-Hamas agitators to the White House months ago, yet only a handful have entered formal deportation proceedings. In February, Betar US launched "Operation Wrath of Zion," a campaign exposing pro-Palestinian student activists; the Anti-Defamation League subsequently blacklisted Betar for alleged Islamophobia and ties to Kahanism.
President Trump condemned the Washington shooting on Truth Social and reiterated a hard-line stance on immigration, while Colorado Governor Jared Polis labeled the Boulder assault "unacceptable" and pledged support for Jewish communities. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the Boulder attack "fueled by blood libels against the Jewish state" and expressed confidence in US authorities to pursue justice.
As antisemitic violence continued to rise, Betar US vowed to press the Trump administration until all alleged "ticking time bombs" were deported and maintained that only a well-armed Jewish community could deter future attacks.
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I'm not so sure I agree with this, because IMO no civilians should be allowed to carry a gun with them outside of their home or place of business in a civilized country, and only certain persons shoud be allowed to own a gun at all if there is a specific valid reason for having one. I'm happy that I live in such a country, because at least I need never have even a minimal concern about being a shooting victim.
However, in America, with the proliferation of guns, the permissiveness for carrrying one, the fact that antisemites are now making use of them to target Jews, maybe in America, even if nowhere else in the world, Jews need to protect their own lives and the lives of others from those who would like to rid the world of them.
My history about guns should be known by now. The only guns I ever owned in my life were a water pistol and a cap gun when I was a kid. However, I am not ignorant of the use of rifles. I was my school rifle marksman champion, the only student in the school able to shoot 10 half inch diameter bullseyes in a row from 20 yards. Had I been the right age to serve in a war that Canada was involved in I would most likely have been a sniper. I love watching sniper movies, especially the movie "Shooter" starring Mark Wahlberg.
On my school's Games Day (which is why I'm not wearing a shirt and tie due to playing sports) this photo was taken and published in my city's newspaper. I am receiving the Frances Malloch Gibson Memorial Trophy for being top rifle marksman from the widow of the late Mr. Gibson, with the school Headmaster looking on.
I just finished watching a movie. Today my TV movie service just added Olympus Has Fallen, and I watched it. There is something coincidental, in fact in my mind significant about that, because I don't think I'm the only person who thinks that the USA needs to be saved these days, but it will take more than a Hollywood hero to do it.
I've seen several articles recently about/by Jews lamenting the fact that they had no guns in Europe in 1939.
I doubt that that would have helped them much - back then it was mostly the military that they were up against, not so much the odd civilian gunman who is out to kill Jews, which is the situation now.
Dunno. If German Jews had had guns - and were competent in their use...
French resistants assassinated Germans during the Occupation. In revenge, the Germans murdered more-or-less random civilians. What was the overall value? I suspect that national pride was a significant result. Is that translatable further east? It's very speculative.
I don't know if many or any Jews joined the resistance during WW2. Unfortunately they were mostly if not all just lambs led to be slaughtered.
Many. Also other refugees from Nazi genocides, like gypsies and Armenians. These were important, particularly early in the development of the Résistance, when they were veterans while the French were debutants.
Good to know.