{"id":228035,"date":"2026-07-29T16:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/228035\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:54:23","slug":"las-oldest-synagogue-sues-three-anti-israel-groups-for-disrupting-community-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/228035\/","title":{"rendered":"LA\u2019s oldest synagogue sues three anti-Israel groups for disrupting community event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Louis D Brandeis Centre for Human Rights Under Law and the firm Covington and Burling filed the suit in the US\u00a0District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of the synagogue and the Louis D. Brandeis Centre Coalition to Combat Antisemitism, a separate entity from the centre.<\/p>\n

Four people are named as defendants in the suit, and 40 others are listed as unnamed defendants.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefendants agreed, conspired and coordinated on their plan to disrupt the symposium, including by unlawfully obstructing entrances to the temple, by intimidating symposium attendees, the temple\u2019s community members and coalition members, by staggered disruption of the symposium and by destruction of the temple\u2019s property,\u201d the suit stated.<\/p>\n

The symposium, which the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Southwest sponsored with the Jewish Federation Los Angeles and the Korean American Federation of Los Angeles, focused on improving public safety for the local Jewish and Korean communities.<\/p>\n

The suit stated that the Turtle Island Liberation Front LA, People\u2019s City Council (PCC) LA and Koreatown 4 Palestine issued calls to action about the event on their respective social media accounts.<\/p>\n

JNS sought comment from the first two but couldn\u2019t find information for the third.<\/p>\n

The protest was organised after it emerged that\u00a0a representative from Elbit Systems<\/a>, an Israeli defence contractor, was slated to give a presentation on artificial intelligence at the event. Turtle Island called for its followers to protest \u201cthese genocidal war criminals\u201d.<\/p>\n

The PCC and Koreatown for Palestine also called to shut down the event, which the former called a \u201cZionist consulate event\u201d and the latter said was a \u201cZionist event featuring weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems\u201d.<\/p>\n

On the morning of the event, anti-Israel protesters outside the synagogue \u201cformed a human barricade\u201d and surrounded cars, which attendees were trying to park in the synagogue garage. They prevented up to 40 cars from entering, according to the suit.<\/p>\n

Some protesters also \u201cphysically accosted\u201d a parent of a child at one of the synagogue\u2019s schools and obstructed one of the coalition members from entering the temple and called her a \u201cZionist pig\u201d and \u201cbaby killer\u201d.<\/p>\n

The disruption followed the \u201cPCC\u2019s playbook for disrupting events\u201d by occurring several times at the symposium, the suit alleged.<\/p>\n

It began with\u00a0a Turtle Island leader named as a defendant, and an unidentified person standing up and displaying a Palestinian flag while shouting \u201cgenocide\u201d and \u201cbaby killer\u201d. Security removed them, according to the suit.<\/p>\n

Another named defendant\u00a0later threw a vase to the ground and charged at the Israeli consul general and shouted obscenities at him. Security stopped him and removed him from the room, and he was later arrested on charges of vandalism, according to the suit.<\/p>\n

A third defendant shouted \u201cgenocide\u201d and \u201cbaby killers\u201d during the event. Security also removed her, and she was arrested for battery of a security guard, according to the suit.<\/p>\n

Finally, another defendant whom the suit identifies as a leader of the People\u2019s City Council and architect of the group\u2019s \u201cintimidation tactics,\u201d screamed and pounded on glass doors where the event was held. He did so while pushing a stroller with a child and with a baby strapped to his chest, the suit alleged.<\/p>\n

The defendant has a history of exploiting \u201chis children both to insulate himself from security and to disrupt proceedings,\u201d it claimed.<\/p>\n

Due to the disruption, the synagogue had to close its social service centre,\u00a0according to the suit.<\/p>\n

The suit also said that two coalition members named as plaintiffs were scared due to the disruption, and one left the event early while the other felt comfortable departing only after police assured her that the premises were secure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe December\u00a03, 2025,\u00a0attack on the temple represents a dangerous escalation in antisemitic violence against Jewish houses of worship,\u201d the suit stated. \u201cThose responsible must be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Louis D Brandeis Centre for Human Rights Under Law and the firm Covington and Burling filed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[6312,37,12243],"class_list":["post-228035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-elbit","tag-israel","tag-los-angeles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117004315021309937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}