{"article":{"id":267177,"heading":"Councilman calls out jewish Voice for Peace for blind naked anti-Semitism","author":"Algemiener","created":"2015-01-23 05:27:18","modified":"2015-04-02 07:40:16","last_modified":"Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:40:16","article":"

New York City Councilman David Greenfield fiercely denounced a group of antisemitic pro-Palestinian demonstrators who disrupted a Council meeting today, at the exact time that a resolution commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was being discussed.

Moments after the demonstrators were escorted from the chamber by security guards, Greenfield, the grandchild of Holocaust survivors, began a speech that rapidly evolved into an impassioned discourse on the overlap between hatred of Israel and hatred of Jews.

“While we were discussing a resolution regarding the murder of 1.1 million human beings – I will point out that 90 percent of them were Jewish, but the other 10 percent, they were political dissidents, they were Jehovah’s Witnesses, they were gays, those were the people who were being killed together at Auschwitz-Birkenau,” Greenfield declared, “while we were discussing that, they had the chutzpah, the nerve, the temerity, to unfurl a Palestinian flag and yell at us.”

Voice rising, Greenfield contrasted Israel’s open society with the repressive regimes across the Middle East, before asserting, “What you saw here today was naked, blind antisemitism.”

Greenfield said that the demonstrators had unfurled the Palestinian flag out of anger that “Hitler had not finished the job. He only wiped out half of my family.”

He concluded: “Shame on them for disrespecting the most diverse democratically elected body in the United States of America, and that’s why we go to Israel.”

The demonstrators immediate target was the trip to Israel which Councilman Greenfield referred to, planned for next year, and involving City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and 14 other Council members. Footage of the demonstrators showed them in a state of collective hysteria, showering abuse and hatred upon the council’s members.

Other councillors joined Greenfield in condemning the antisemitic disruption, which included the fringe group “Jewish Voice for Peace” among the participants. “City Council protesters today were so hate-filled and venomous that they strengthened our support for Israel, ONLY democracy in Middle east,” tweeted Councilman Mark D. Levine. Councilman Cory Johnson called the demonstration “incredibly disrespectful and offensive. Simply awful.”

Republican Councilman Eric Ulrich told the meeting that “to be pro Israel you don’t have to be Jewish. Israel is a vibrant democracy and I’m proud to go back to Israel again. I will not be intimidated by the hecklers. I will not sit here and allow people to attack the Jews.”<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2015\/01\/22\/what-you-saw-here-today-was-naked-blind-antisemitism-nyc-councilman-slams-palestine-activists-who-disrupted-auschwitz-comme","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"\u2018What You Saw Here Today Was Naked, Blind Antisemitism:\u2019 NYC Councilman Slams Palestine Activists Who Disrupted Auschwitz Commemoration ","numcomment":13,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2015\/01\/267177.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":267178,"heading":"JVP irretrupts Holocaust Memorial Resolution","article":"Today, as reported at JP UPdates. Jewish Voice for Peace and others disrupted a Holocaust Memorial Resolution being passed in the NYC City Council, all to further their obscene agenda. The group, it turns out were incensed that some council members were planning a visit to Israel. \r\n\r\n Pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel activists disrupted the City Council\u2019s stated meeting on Thursday while members were voting on a resolution commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The protesters started yelling, \u201cwhy are you supporting apartheid\u201d and \u201cPalestinian lives matter. After five minutes of yelling and screaming, the some 40 protesters were ordered to leave and were escorted off the balcony.\r\n\r\nThus to the Seattle Jewish Federation, to Hillel, to the JTNews, you can no longer say you did not know. The next time you open your pages to JVP in our community newspaper or you roll out the red carpet for them in your Young Leadership sessions, you do so with eyes wide open, knowing full well who they are and what they have done. \r\n\r\nDespite the desecration of the memories of our lost millions there was a redeeming moment in the NYC council chambers as Councilman David Greenfield proclaimed to the assembled in righteous outrage\u2026\r\n\r\n \u201cI am still shaken, upset and angry. While we were discussing a resolution regarding the murder of 1.1 million human beings \u2013 I will point out that 90 percent of them were Jewish, but the other 10 percent, they were political dissidents .. those were the people who were being killed together at Auschwitz-Birkenau. While we were discussing that, they had the chutzpah, the nerve, the temerity, to unfurl a Palestinian flag and yell at us.\u201d\r\n\r\n \u201cBut I\u2019m pleased, because we can stop pretending that this is about Israel. What we saw here was naked, blind antisemitism, good old fashioned antisemitism, that\u2019s what you saw, and that\u2019s what you watched, and that\u2019s what you witnessed \u2013 people who were upset for one reason. Do you want to know why they\u2019re upset, do you want to know why they\u2019re angry, do you want to know why they unfurled that flag today? Because Hitler did not finish the job. He only wiped out half of my family.\u201d\r\n","author":"Mike Report","parent_id":267177,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-01-23 05:32:48","modified":"2015-01-23 05:32:48","fileurl":""},{"id":267179,"heading":"Jewish voice for Peace disrupts Holocaust presentation","article":"Via Legal Insurrection "There is no low too low for anti-Israel activists."\r\nhis has to be a new low.\r\n\r\nAnti-Israel activists in New York City have started a campaign as part of the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement to try to prevent City Council members and other politicians from visiting Israel. A coalition of 40 groups, most of which are quite small but including the usual suspects like the inaccurately named Jewish Voice for Peace are leading the effort.\r\n\r\nAt a NY City Council meeting today, anti-Israel activists disrupted a vote commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, shouting for one of the council members not to travel to Israel, as reported by Jacob Kornbluh at Jewish Political News & Updates website, which has video:\r\n\r\n Pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel activists disrupted the City Council\u2019s stated meeting on Thursday while members were voting on a resolution commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.\r\n\r\n The protesters started yelling, \u201cshame on you, Melissa\u201d, \u201cwhy are you supporting an apartheid\u201d and \u201cPalestinian lives matter.\u201d\r\n\r\n After five minutes of yelling and screaming, the some 40 protesters were ordered to leave and escorted out the balcony.\r\n\r\n Council member Cory Johnson called it \u201cincredibly disrespectful and offensive. Simply awful.\u201d Councilman Mark Weprin added, \u201cThe State of Israel has never supported the killing of innocent people, and they want to love in peace.\u201d\r\n\r\n \u201cI am still shaken, upset and angry,\u201d Councilman David Greenfield. \u201cShame on them for hating Jews.\u201d\r\n\r\n \u201cBut I\u2019m pleased, because we can stop pretending that this is about Israel. What we saw here was blatant antisemitism, good old fashioned antisemitism,\u201d Greenfield roared. \u201cThey were angry, you know why? because Hitler did not finish the job.\u201d\r\n\r\n The trip to Israel is a message that \u201cwe will not be cowered by this fear and hatred,\u201d he added\u2026.\r\n\r\n Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito said in an emailed statement, \u201cAt a time when the Council was voting on a resolution commemorating the 70thanniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, this outburst was offensive, outrageous and counter to the values of the City Council.\u201d","author":"JVP lies","parent_id":267177,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-01-23 05:35:00","modified":"2015-01-23 05:35:00","fileurl":""},{"id":267180,"heading":"Jewish voice for Peace interrupts Holocaust commemoration","article":"Full transcript of City councilman David Greenfield's reaction to Jewish Voice for Peace's disruption of the Holocaust commemoration\r\n\r\n"I am still shaken to my core, I'm upset, I'm angry. but I'll tell you honestly I'm actually somewhat pleased at what we saw here today. if you are wondering why I'm saying that its because for the last few weeks we've heard from people who've said "Oh, we don't dislike Jews. We only dislike the state of Israel. We have no problem with you we simply don't want you to go to Israel" But we know that's not really at the core of what they are saying and today they proved it.\r\n\r\nWhile we were discussing a resolution regarding the murder of 1.1million human beings- I will point out that 90% were Jewish but the other 10 % were political dissidents, they were Jehovah's witnesses, they were gays- those were the people who were being killed together in Auschwitz Birkenau. While we were discussing that they had the nerve, the chutzpah, the temerity to unfurl a Palestinian flag and to yell at us while we were discussing that.\r\n\r\nSo the reason I'm pleased is because we can stop pretending that this is about Israel when the reality is that every middle eastern country that is in existence today is not democratic and persecutes people of other faiths, and persecutes gays and persecutes people who disagree with them and persecutes people on Twitter and persecutes women who drive -except for one country- which is the state of Israel.\r\n\r\nSo what you saw here today was naked blind anti-semitism. That's what you saw. That's what you watched and that's what you witnessed. People who are upset for one reason. you want to know why they are angry? you want to know why they are unfurling that flag today? Because Hitler did not finish the job. he only wiped out half of my family. And only by the grace of G-d is the other half, me, the grandchild still alive today. That's why those people are upset. Shame on them.Shame on them for hating Jews. Shame on them for hating people. Shame on them for disrespecting the most diverse democratically elected body in the United States of America. That's why we go to Israel. We go to Israel to make a message that is clear that we will not be cowered by this fear and by this hatred that we have. These are people that would celebrate the death of Jews rather than mourn the deaths of innocents. I am embarrassed at what happened here today but I am pleased that we finally see what this is all about. Good old fashioned anti-Semitism.\r\n\r\nThank you."","author":"PIBB","parent_id":267177,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-01-23 05:41:08","modified":"2015-01-23 05:41:08","fileurl":""},{"id":267181,"heading":"Its worse","article":"Jewish voice for peace sat through an hour and 26 minutes of boring council business, and waiting for the precise moment of the Aushwitz commemoration to interrupt.\r\n\r\nWhat kind of "Jewish" organization does that sort of thing?","author":"Rahula","parent_id":267177,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2015-01-23 06:44:49","modified":"2015-01-23 06:44:49","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dg.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dg.jpg"}},{"id":267183,"heading":"Aushwitz?","article":"Aushwitz [sp]Remembered?\r\nThat's Auschwitz, there, bonehead. You know, the I.G. Farben forced labor camp.\r\nThe very same facility owned by the Warbergs Zionists.\r\nHmmm\r\n\r\nJan 22 9:22-Algemiener \r\n\r\nJan 22 9:32-Mike Report\r\n\r\nJan 22 9:35-JVP Lies\r\n\r\nJan 22 9:41-PIBB\r\n\r\nJan 22 10:44-Rahula\r\n\r\nNew York City? \r\n\r\n","author":"wise","parent_id":267177,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-01-23 15:47:57","modified":"2015-01-23 15:47:57","fileurl":""},{"id":267187,"heading":"Death camp","article":"Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz [k\u02b0\u0254n\u02a6\u025bnt\u0281a\u02c8\u02a6i\u032fo\u02d0ns\u02ccla\u02d0\u0261\u0250 \u02c8\u0294a\u028a\u032f\u0283v\u026at\u0361s] ( listen)) was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original camp), Auschwitz II\u2013Birkenau (a combination concentration\/extermination camp), Auschwitz III\u2013Monowitz (a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory), and 45 satellite camps.\r\n\r\nAuschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. The first extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941, and Auschwitz II\u2013Birkenau went on to become a major site of the Nazi "Final Solution to the Jewish question". From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe, where they were killed with the pesticide Zyklon B. At least 1.1 million prisoners died at Auschwitz, around 90 percent of them Jewish; approximately 1 in 6 Jews killed in the Holocaust died at the camp. Others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Romani and Sinti, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, 400 Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and tens of thousands of people of diverse nationalities. Many of those not killed in the gas chambers died of starvation, forced labor, infectious diseases, individual executions, and medical experiments.","author":"death camp","parent_id":267177,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-01-24 05:41:26","modified":"2015-01-24 05:41:26","fileurl":""},{"id":267194,"heading":"my point is..","article":"the Zionist cult remained placid if not greatly enriched by the 'sacrifice' of their 'fellow' Jews where they made fortunes.","author":"wise","parent_id":267177,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-01-25 02:42:03","modified":"2015-01-25 02:42:03","fileurl":""},{"id":267290,"heading":"Jewish Voice for Peace is a cult","article":"Jewish Voice for peace is run like a cult, and it is nearly as bad as Scientology. Thats why i quit.\r\n\r\nThey are desperately afraid that information will leak out about them, so the discussion groups have all sorts of warnings on them:\r\n\r\nLike this:\r\n\r\nThe JVPBA-Discuss list is for discussions related to the JVP Bay Area Chapter and Israel\/Palestine issues. Membership is limited to JVP Active Members.\r\n \r\nDO NOT FORWARD E-MAILS FROM THIS LIST, unless you have asked permission from ALL authors of personal comments. Do not forward entire threads. If you forward public information that was sent to the list, edit out all JVP members' personal comments and information from the message.\r\n \r\nYou can find full guidelines, read list messages on the web, or change your e-mail settings at http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/JVPBA-Discuss?hl=en\r\n \r\nFor announcements of meetings and activities, use JVPBA-Announce.\r\nFor discussions not specifically Bay Area related, use JVP-Talk or the JVP website.\r\nArticles can be posted to the JVP-Articles list.\r\n \r\nFor help with the list, contact Susannah Nachenberg at Susannah@jvp.org\r\n---\r\nYou received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVPBA Discuss" group.\r\nTo unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jvpba-discuss+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.\r\nFor more options, visit https:\/\/groups.google.com\/d\/optout.","author":"Estelle","parent_id":267177,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-02-08 07:30:14","modified":"2015-02-08 07:30:14","fileurl":""},{"id":267573,"heading":"Jewish Voice for Peace","article":"Have you seen their new logo?","author":"Jewish voice for Peace","parent_id":267177,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2015-03-08 22:41:53","modified":"2015-03-08 22:41:53","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2015\/03\/logo.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2015\/03\/logo.jpg"}},{"id":267724,"heading":"Don't diss JVP","article":"Don't diss Jewish Voice for Peace- they were instrumental in helping divestment pass at my school- they held our hand every step of the way, from writing our speeches to funding our pizzas.\r\n\r\n","author":"Gabi","parent_id":267177,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-03-25 04:39:04","modified":"2015-03-25 04:39:04","fileurl":""},{"id":267810,"heading":"Zionism, Palestinians","article":" Anti-semites often attempt to infiltrate the pro-Pakestinian movement and make it seem that they are part of the mainstream; their aim is to disrupt the movement and many of them are probably paid agent provocateurs.\r\n Apologists for Zionism love to focus on these nuts because it allows the apologists to evade discussing real issues, such as illegal settlements on the West Bank or the original ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 by people like Begin and Shamir.l","author":"Meyer Londonsi","parent_id":267177,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-04-02 05:07:01","modified":"2015-04-02 05:07:01","fileurl":""},{"id":267812,"heading":"JVP","article":"I'm Portuguese, but my script read " As a Jew...." Its ok- no one knew and no one cared. ","author":" Go Bruins!","parent_id":267177,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-04-02 07:36:08","modified":"2015-04-02 07:36:08","fileurl":""},{"id":267813,"heading":"JVP","article":"I didn't mean for that too sound critical- it was necessary because at UCLA, very few members of Jewish Voice for Peace are actually Jewish","author":"Go Bruins","parent_id":267177,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2015-04-02 07:40:16","modified":"2015-04-02 07:40:16","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2015\/04\/jvp_la.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2015\/04\/jvp_la.jpg"}}]}