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Biden denounces brawl outside LA synagogue
Opponents of the Israeli war on Gaza staged a protest that devolved into violence outside a Los Angeles synagogue.
Fighting between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and counter-protesters erupted on Sunday outside the Adas Torah synagogue in the heavily Jewish Pico-Robertson neighbourhood and police were called in to break it up.
“I’m appalled by the scenes outside of Adas Torah synagogue in Los Angeles,” President Joe Biden said in post on X. “Intimidating Jewish congregants is dangerous, unconscionable, anti-Semitic, and un-American.”
In a statement, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said the violence was “abhorrent” and blocking access to a place of worship unacceptable.
The People’s City Council LA, a pro-justice group, said the synagogue was hosting an event promoting the sale of Palestinian land. “Every single elected official in Los Angeles commenting on this is being so disingenuous, it’s disgusting,” the group said.
Selling illegal land is OK, protesting against it is not
Biden ‘disturbed’ by incident involving Palestinian-American child
A Texas woman was charged with attempted murder on Sunday after she tried to drown a little girl in a swimming pool.
In a post on X, the US president said: “I am deeply disturbed by the reports of an attempted drowning of a 3-year old Palestinian-American at a neighbourhood pool. No child should ever be subjected to a violent attack, and my heart goes out to the family.”
The Council on American Islamic Relations’s Texas chapter called on police to open a hate-crime probe as reports increase of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian incidents across the United States.
Police said in a statement the girl’s mother said the suspect – a 42-year-old white American woman – “made statements about her not being an American and other racial statements” and she tried to grab both of her children at an apartment complex’s pool in Euless, a suburb of Dallas and Fort Worth, last month.
“The mother began helping her son when Wolf grabbed her 3-year-old daughter and forced her underwater,” police said.
In a statement released by CAIR, the mother said, “We are American citizens, originally from Palestine, and I don’t know where to go to feel safe with my kids,” adding with Israel’s war on Gaza she and her family are “facing that hate here”.
‘Palestinian people must be treated as human beings’
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) – the largest Muslim civil rights organisation in the United States – says the “US-backed mass slaughter of Palestinian children must be addressed by the world community and the American people”.
“Those responsible must be held accountable by institutions upholding international law and justice. This genocide must end and the Palestinian people must be treated as human beings,” CAIR said.
