 But you know the world on your side. And in the end, I forget the word. I plan. Amen. Thank you so much. Eat us in the end. God bless you all. It's tasty. It's really good. Can we go again? No. I want to get off of my car. I want to get off. Yeah, no. I'm just not in time. We are coming for the heart of Jerusalem. Amongst God's chosen people among the nations. Those of us, you feel the comfort from those of us who are not Jewish. The Latinos for Israel that are here today. The director of Latinos for Israel. We will represent over 100 churches in the United States and Mexico that love and support Israel. When we stand with you, you're not alone. You're like Ruth and you're a Naomi. Your God is our God. Your people is our people. I want you to know that you're not alone. The most important thing. The God of Jacob is with us. The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. And the battle is not ours. The battle belongs to the Lord. So I would like to send these two apples for you today. National Anthem of America and Israel. National Anthem of America and Israel. Thank you好, terrible. To support the State of Israel in the fight against terrorism. Thank you all. Tartes work life and day on the security of the people of Los Angeles and also apprehended parts of the people who attacked the Jews in Los Angeles the people that denies Israel and Los Angeles particularly in Israel anti-semitism turned anti-semitism in all its forms in Israel, the conflict between the terrorists and Israel is not about territories it's not about water it's not about the Temple Mount it's about the great sustenance of the state of Israel in the Middle East but to say to you that Israel is here to stay together we conclude with one message we will stand together with all communities and elitists which are persecuted and we hope that they will start with us and we thank those that have joined us today to stand together we are united in the world it's not fun to take fire the children do not seek to be pleased with our children there's more than what we have right here decency and justice proud of being Jewish if you're ready to get inspired please welcome high school senior employees who will stand after this Jennifer Karla Preach Me Law, Abris promises to that new soul in Israel the first promise I made is that we would raise that child in a country where he could walk down any street wearing a maghain d'avis, wearing a kippah, wearing ZZ we could do it freely the second promise I made was that we as a Jewish community would never stop fighting for peace but we would not do it through resignation and we would not do it by acceptance of conditions that we cannot live with we would fight for our conditions in our land which is ours through history and through faith and that our land of Israel would be his for the generations to come he said if you show me a stone and I say it's a stone you'll agree it's a stone if you show me a tree and I say it's a tree you'll agree it's a tree but if you show me my blood and I say it's blood you'll say it's color for thousands of years Jewish blood hasn't been blood to the world it's been color no more is Jewish blood cheap in this world for a tree and we will not forget any soul and we will fight in this land of the free and home of the brave we will not cower and we will not be afraid and look around you here in public there were some people who said don't do this be afraid fruity we are here because our people at once and for all Dami Israel the blood of Israel matters and counts in this world not only that our children will be raised feeling safe and strong and free but that God's eternal promise still lives that the Jewish community is still strong that we will carry our flags in this wonderful country in this place for the same thing we recite the shmah we know they have our protection former Iraqi-American model Miss Universe Iraq 2017 and CEO of Humanity Forward whose mission is to rebuild the relations between Muslims Jews, Arabs and Israel I texted her on Thursday and said are you available Sunday and she said for Israel I'm always available Jewish brothers and sisters and allies of peace in the U.S. and the Middle East we're gathered here today to repeat for the million time we seek an end to violence we are desperate to achieve coexistence we believe that both Jews and Palestinians deserve an equal opportunity of life and dignity future for Jewish and Muslim children to grow up without the fear of being killed and sacrificed by terrorist Hamas who places them at the front lines before they launch their missiles into Israel knowing Israel has the right to defend and will defend itself from 3,000 rockets they witnessed the riot as a child I know exactly the horror and the trauma of war and how it impacts children it boils my blood use children's death to push their cause of eradicating Jews and Israel the state of Israel have sought peace and asked the government of Palestine to come to the negotiating table for 72 years or for 72 years they said no to finding the solution only Jews don't deserve to have their own state they shout we're not anti-Soviet we're anti-Zionist and we're against occupation yet they don't have a problem with at least 50 Muslim countries that spread all the way from Asia from blue possibilities against their minorities because these are presently not Jews we need to call out T-70s to believe Iraq for just taking a selfie with Mr. Israel let's put aside the fact that I get daily death threats from people on social media demanding me to stop speaking against anti-Soviet tell me how come for 19 years of my life living in Iraq I did not need a single Iraqi Jew until I was 24 right here in Los Angeles what does that tell you in the 150,000 Iraqi Jews who lived there until the 1950s the Iraqi government oppressed them stole their property massacred them and ethnically cleansed them in all Arab countries where Jews once lived whether it's Morocco, Yemen Libya, Syria, Egypt the indoctrination where is the real or these countries that are finally here across Europe and in the U.S. this war is on Jews not just on Israel my dear Americans an attack on our Jewish community my dear Americans an attack on our Jewish community is an attack on the entire United States of America and its values and principles of freedom which it was built upon we must not only condemn the attacks but fight it until it's no longer we will not sit and wait for more heinous and anti-Semitic crimes we will not stand aside and watch the ignorance and the uneducated about history led by a filled with an agenda media lecture us on what's right and excuse anti-Semitic behavior we will not allow this country turn into a starting point for radical Islamists to launch their war not only on Jews but on America who they called the head of the snake and the great Satan we will not sit idly by and face another holocaust we need to stop the radical Islamist agenda before it has gone too far you can do it and how you can help you have sworn never again social media influencer for Prager you as a political commentator I am a newly baptized Christian and I support the state of Israel congratulations for the mainstream media in this country why is it that black lives matter is able to go around destroying this country rioting, pillaging in cities and the mainstream media perils them or who must fire rockets and the mainstream media perils them look at the John Oliver segment that Dennis Prager reacted to the other day these people are heralded black lives matter when the noble peace prize what a backwards world we live in I am sure they are going to give it to Hamas next year but when we see when we see violence against Jewish people we don't see that same reaction in the mainstream media it is not the same reaction at all and it is because people are scared to speak up people are scared to speak up about the anti-Jewish violence and that is a terrible thing what we need to do is be stronger than ever speaking up against this violence people will think about that what the left will do to them if they speak up if they say something against this what they should be really worried about is what will happen to the world if they don't speak up now the future of everything is at stake Friedrich Nietzsche philosopher in the 1800s had a famous quote where he said God is dead and we have killed him and a lot of liberals and atheists take this quote great thing, we're so happy that God is dead Nietzsche didn't need it this way he said this is a warning a warning that when you take away Judeo-Christian morality people look for a different set of values that's where leftism comes in leftism is now the biggest religion in America that is a terrible thing that is the fate we are Israel and America both stand for western values and freedom this is why they wanted to take it down they wanted to take both of these magnificent countries down because they stand for these values look at California I've been living here for four years I'm sure a lot of you guys have been here a lot longer than me California used to be a great place it was a very conservative place right, Pete Wilson, Ronald Reagan and now look at it it is the worst place in America to live and that is because people who cared about California didn't stand up and do anything to stop what was happening to this state we cannot do the same thing with Israel and the Jewish hate that we are seeing across the country right now where we see it I am proud to stand up on this stage and on social media and everywhere I go across this country and call out evil God bless you all thank you councilmember John Mish Professor Henry run up the street when people need it they just dig it up we don't want to repeat it and we do over and over again anti-Semitism is just a pseudo-scientific way to describe Jew-hatred an age-owned form of racism you might call it the Zeta of racism Jew-hatred is a pathological disease a virus which continually mutates which has continually mutated over thousands of years Jew-hatred is a virus for which there is nephraizer, Moderna or even Johnson & Johnson inoculation in a year in which we are now just coming out of one of the worst global pandemics in history another virus grows among us ever mutating ever raging spreading virally on social media Jew-hatred is alive and well in 2021 in Southern California in America and across the world one of the most virulent and insidious mutations of this virus is the raging and irrational hate towards Jews using Israel as a pretext social media has become like a petri dish for the ever-new strains of the virus of Jew-hatred sadly in 2021 a Venn diagram of Jew-hatred and Israel-hatred would be more a matter of concentric circles than a figure 8 or an infinity sign Beverly Hills my city is one of the only Jewish-majority cities outside of Israel who would have ever thought that in 2021 Jews would be violently attacked simply from being Jewish so close to the borders of our neighborhood we in Beverly Hills remain committed to the safety of all our residents and visitors but if anything a recent outbreak of anti-Semitism anti-Jewish violence shows us just why we need a Jewish state it makes me profoundly sad but at the same time grateful for a Jewish country in our ancestral homeland where we are the indigenous people a people whose history is defined by never forgetting who we are and where we come from others may attempt to gaslight us and the world as people have done for millennia tragically some of these people may be our friends, neighbors and even family others may speak up and fight and in silence when the oldest, most adivistic and most elemental form of racism the hatred of Jews takes place before their very eyes in their own backyards and in their own front yards do not be surprised yes, we need to continue trying to vaccinate people against the virus of Jew-hatred we must not give up trying to cure it but ultimately we need to protect ourselves against its effects and yet though it may feel that way we are not alone we have each other look around yourselves with gratitude and with hesed these people are your family and we have Israel our imperfect but beautiful spiritual and ancestral home where we come from where we are the indigenous people and where we can Baruch Hashem go back whenever we want to whenever we need to we can put upon it where we can live as Jews without fear because today we can't even live as Jews without fear in the United States of America in 2021 we can't even live as Jews without fear in Beverly Hills, California how sad is that while we remain committed to fixing that let's not have any illusions about the world around us Pastor Martin Neimler once wrote a famous poem about he and the others did not speak out when the Nazis came for different groups and that by the time they came for him there was no one left to speak out I'd like to leave you with an updated version of Neimler's poem from a Jewish perspective first they came for the socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jews and the Jews realized they did not speak out they had to speak up for themselves because you did not act they had to act for themselves because you did not defend them they had to defend themselves because you did not stand with them they had to stand alone together because they were Jews because they are Jews because we are Jews on Yusveil 5 welcome our next speaker award-winning investigative journalist with expertise in the Middle East and counter-terrorism Lisa Daftari question I'm sure many of you did Kristallnacht, literally the night of broken glass where synagogues businesses, homes, properties belonging to Jews were vandalized and destroyed 100 German Jews were killed and 30,000 arrested and taken to concentration camps that night is commonly referred to as the beginning of the Holocaust and you wonder what were Jews in Germany thinking the next morning I can bet they couldn't imagine or predict something as horrific as the Holocaust was about to happen to them because nobody thinks that the communities that they helped build, that they are a part of that they consider their culture their country, their city that that society would ever, ever turn on them European Jews consider themselves European American Jews consider themselves American then why is this happening why is this happening to Jews in 2021 and why did it happen to German Jews in 1938 maybe if Jews were less successful, less educated they accumulated less wealth they owned less real estate won fewer Nobel prizes then maybe no anti-Semitism is not a flexible mindset it isn't a point that you can debate or you can easily change their minds it's a conspiracy theory that cannot be corrected not with logic and not with facts but the curious thing is how does this conspiracy theory continue to spread and find more and more support around the world two sources the media and universities reported who started this fight do you feel over the conflict until Israel began retaliating why because their narrative in newsrooms across America is simple Israel is the aggressor so we have to wait for Israel to get aggressive notice that the media's only measure of rights and wrong is to use numbers 240 casualties for the Palestinians and 12 Israelis why don't they use different numbers like 4,000 rockets for Hamas and Israel hitting about 1,000 military targets basically imagine if the US was in a war with ISIS rockets into our northern or southern border and then the world would be fixated on how wrong the US is for defending itself it's absurd Palestinian children were being killed once they clarified that these children are used as shields that Hamas puts weapons in schools that they set up their offices in civilian areas that Israel makes a solid attempt at removing residents and most importantly question no question that we care for Palestinian children deeply care for all children but don't let them take us for fools to say that the Palestinian children deserve a future does not have to mean that Israel is the villain that's the correlation and the bottom line that the media and anti-Semites all over the world want to establish you see their logic Palestinians live poorly so Jews are bad Palestinians don't have proper infrastructure so Jews are bad and Palestinians don't have as much as Jews so therefore they are bad we all agree Palestinians deserve better better schools better textbooks where they're not taught about killing of Jews orders of Shahid they deserve the billions of dollars that are coming in from the US, Iran's regime Qatar and elsewhere to be spent on them not on missiles and not on terror tunnels rights for Palestinians those are the reasons why Jews are being beat up in Los Angeles for those of you who are paying attention anti-Semitic attacks in the US have increased exponentially 2019 and 2020 with over 2000 attacks each year I'm sure you all remember the attacks in Pittsburgh Pauway the New Jersey Kosher Market in New York were those about evictions or land or human rights for Palestinians contributed to anti-Semitism and the hijacking of social justice movements that falsely tell their followers like sheep if you follow BLM if you support gays if you support women's rights and the list goes on group think leads you to hate Jews because of human rights for Palestinians they've abducted the narrative to the point that it's so deeply interwoven with their causes you can't strip it or logically argue against it if we could then someone should ask Ilhan Omar about the gay pride parade in Somalia because the one in Tel Aviv is amazing last thing they're short-sighted to see anti-Semitism as just one enemy anti-Semitism exists in three forms the far right, the far left and Islamic extremism the mites in Congress and Senate who have ordained themselves the messengers of this hate should be named and shamed let's not punish either side of the political spectrum the bottom line is this unfortunately very unfortunately the friends and supporters of Israel are exponentially fewer than our enemies we cannot afford to leave even one person who is willing to hold up an Israeli flag or to defend the Jews out on the sidelines we're not sure how we got here but the fact is we're here and if history and our collective experiences can tell us one thing it's that we can't afford to be naive or ignorant after witnessing deep anti-Semitism in my own life I've come to this conclusion while history books may tell it this way Kristallnacht was not the beginning of the Holocaust because it doesn't just happen in one night it exists beneath the surface of society sometimes less, sometimes more until it boils over so we've posted on social media for 11 days we've gathered here we feel uncomfortable but maybe, just maybe that is the message right now my friends, right now there's something brewing underneath the surface it doesn't have to be gas chambers or a world war the effects of thousands of attacks and this silencing of Jews and Israel advocates in Hollywood in the media, in social media universities, the classrooms when you have to be afraid when you're sitting at a restaurant for someone to approach you if you are Jewish that in and of itself is a Holocaust don't let them kill the spirit of the Jewish people and its supporters let's keep fighting the fight to keep Israel and the Jewish people and all who support them same, free and thriving for generations to come thank you hey guys, the Beverly Hills Police Department asked me to make an announcement if you're over here on the street let's go to the parkway let's make sure we respect law enforcement alright, with that said please welcome accomplished Persian Jewish community leader experienced attorney former city commissioner