On Friday afternoon, an 89 year old Holocaust survivor was horrified to find a baggie in front of her home filled with repulsive antisemitic propaganda. She was not alone. Many residents in the Berkeley hills found similar zip lock baggies filled with hateful antisemitic fliers and brown pellets in their driveways and on their sidewalks in recent days. Some have speculated that the pellets contained rat poison. This is being investigated
Similar bags were distributed across the East Bay, in Walnut Creek, Concord and Pleasant Hill.Thursday, August 29, 2024
Hate Literature Distributed in Berkeley
Thursday, June 27, 2024
First do no harm, Fadi Al-Wadiya
Dr. Fadi Al Wadiyah, associated with Doctors Without Borders was killed in Gaza City yesterday. Depending on the unreliable source of your choice, he was either 1. Bicycling to work 2. Already at the clinic, tending to the blameless wounded
According to an IDF statement Al-Wadiya was involved in developing and advancing Islamic Jihad's missile program. Nice to see Doctors Without Borders takes the Hippocratic oath seriously in their hiring practices.
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Casey Goonan arrested as suspect in Berkeley Arson Attacks
Casey Robert Goonan, 34, of Oakland, was arrested on Monday and is currently held in Santa Rita jail on 1 million dollars bail. He was been accused of involvement in at least 4 arson fires on and near the Berkeley campus.
Goonan has a Ph.D. in African Studies from Northwestern University. He received his BA from UC Riverside in 2013, and his MA in African American Studies in 2019.
One can only imagine how proud his parents must be feeling now.
Casey Goonan during happier times |
Goonan is now facing multiple felony charges,,, including "the possession and use of destructive devices and multiple counts of arson."
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Palestinian Affinity Group claims responsibility for UC Berkeley arson fire
Today, a pro Palestinian group took responsibility for the act of eco-terrorism. Writing in the hard left "news" site, Indybay, they stated:
NOT SURE WHAT BUILDING IT EVEN WAS. HONESTLY DONT REALLY CARE. EVERY SINGLE BUILDING ON THE UC BERKELEY CAMPUS DESERVES TO BE INCINERATED FOLLOWING THE UC SYSTEM'S TREATMENT OF STUDENT PROTESTORS. LAST NIGHT THEY ATTACKED A YOUNG WOMAN STUDENT WHO WAS SPEAKING HER MIND ON A MEGAPHONE. SO WE UNLOADED A FIREBOMB ON THE SIDE OF A CAMPUS BUILDING. THE FLAME WAS BIG AND SPREAD ACROSS THE TREES AND BUSHES ON THE SIDE OF A BUILDING.
LONG LIVE THE STUDENT INTIFADA FOR PALESTINE LIBERATION
STOP THE GENOCIDE NOW
UC SYSTEM MUST DIVEST FROM ISRAEL OR FACE OUR WRATH OF REVENGE
BLESSED IS THE FLAME
Earlier this month, a Berkeley police car was set on fire, "in solidarity with Palestine."
If you have any further information about either incident please contact U.C.Berkeley Police at (510) 642-6760
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Denis MacEoin Nails it. Again
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Zionist Arts and Crafts in the Bay Area
The unhinged barabism and atrocities of October 7 have unified the Bay Area community in many ways. Its been particularly gratifying to see the various ad hoc "Arts and Crafts" collectives that have sprung up, engaging in random acts of urban beautification.
The "Kidnapped Posters" are everywhere.
We've also seen grafitti abatement:
From San Francisco Ocean Beach
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Before |
Quick art projects and banner drops
More elaborate art projects
And some general "We're just messing with you" alterations, additions and deletions.
This may have been a Palestinian flag in a different life |
Thanks for all your contributions to bring light and beauty to our community. Remember the words of our ancestors: "We are not obliged to complete the work, nor are we free to desist from it".
Keep sending those photos in! If you want to claim credit for the art work, let us know
Monday, May 13, 2024
Zionists in Berkeley
Its good to see Jews and their allies fighting back.
As seen in Berkeley, Sunday May 5, on the pedestrian bridge over I 80. The Berkeley action was modeled after a similar action in Lafayette that began shortly after the October 7 atrocities.
The vigil was covered by the local Jewish paper- the J Weekly. Read the full story here:
No, Virginia. Its NOT a Genocide
No, its not.
This is a war.
A war Hamas started.
A war that Hamas is losing (badly).
And a war that Hamas can end today, by surrendering and freeing the kidnapped Israeli hostages.
In our lifetime, there have been many wars, military actions and insurrections
1. The Second Congo War (5,000,000 dead)
2. The Vietnam War (4,000,000 dead)
3. Soviet–Afghan War (2,000,000 dead)
4. The Nigerian Civil War (2,000,000 dead)
5. The Second Sudanese Civil War (1,500,000 dead)
6. The Syrian civil war (600,000 dead)
8. The First Sudanese Civil War (500,000 dead)
9. The Ethiopian Civil War (900,000 dead)
10. The Iran–Iraq War (1,000,000 dead)
11. The Rwandan genocide (700,000 dead)
12. The Bangladesh Liberation War (2,000,000 dead)
13. The South Sudanese Civil War (350,000 dead)
14. The Yemeni Civil War (380,000 dead)
15. The Boko Haram insurgency (350,000 dead)
16. The Somali Civil War (400,000 dead)
17. Burundian Civil War (300,000 dead)
18. The War in Darfur (300,000 dead)
19. The Russian invasion of Ukraine (300,000 dead)
20. The First Congo War (600,000 dead)
21. The Colombian conflict (400,000 dead)
22. The Mexican drug war (300,000 dead)
23. The Tigray War (350,000 dead)
24. The War in Afghanistan (250,000 dead)
Even if we believe the death toll from the Hamas run Gaza Ministry of Health (and we have no reason to believe them) the total is far far less than any of these actions.
No, Virginia. Its not a genocide.
Believe Jewish Students: Antisemitism at Berkeley High
Anti-Israel propaganda in a Berkeley High Classroom |
Earlier this year, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed a federal civil rights complaint alleging antisemitic bullying by both peers and teachers in Berkeley K-12 schools.
From the ADL
The complaint documented how BUSD teachers are weaponizing disciplines such as art and history to promote anti-Semitic tropes about Israel. At Berkeley High School, a history teacher screened an anti-Zionist video and forced students to analyze Israel as an apartheid state. This teacher sharply squelched dissent, stating that materials which oppose the apartheid narrative are “laughable.” A high school art teacher showed students violent pro-Hamas videos and displayed anti-Israel and anti-Semitic images during class, including a fist punching through a Star of David. Indoctrination attempts occur in classes for young children. In one second-grade classroom, a teacher hung a Palestinian flag in the window and encouraged students to write “Stop Bombing Babies” on sticky notes to be posted next to the classroom of the only Jewish teacher.
Read this heartbreaking first hand account of one family's struggles with systemic antisemitism in the Berkeley Public schools.
Its a sad testament that no local news source would carry this- and that it had to published in the New York Post.
Written by Ilana Pearlman, a Berkeley mother of three. Check out How DEI is failing my diverse, Jewish Berkeley, California family.
"Because rather than study free from fear, our kids now endure chants such as “Kill the Jews.” They must study in classrooms with posters asking, “How’s the school/work/life/genocide balance going for you today?” There’s been graffiti at the bus stop in front of Berkeley HS stating “Kill all Zionists.” Jewish students share stories of being told to pick up pennies or having their yarmulkes pushed off of their heads.
School administrators are well aware of this abuse, but to no avail. “I just stopped reporting things because . . . all it did was make the bullying worse,” one student told me. "
The Berkeley Unified school District now faces a federal investigation.The goal- to determine whether the harassment of Jewish students violated’ protections under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and to determine whether there was retaliation against parents who complained about harassment.
If you or your children have faced antisemitism or bullying in the Berkeley Unified School District , now is the time to speak up. More first hand reports will strengthen the complaint and ensure that the district is held accountable for their actions.
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Attention Students: Have you been victimized by Students for Justice in Palestine?
Meet Elana Auerbach, Candidate for Berkeley City Council
Elana Auerbach is running for Berkeley City council in District 4, in a special election scheduled for May 28. District 4 covers the downtown business district and central Berkeley. The sudden resignation of Kate Harrison has left the 4th district seat vacant.
Elana Auerbach is a quintessential "How Berkeley can you be?" candidate.
Elana's commitment to "public service" began with her involvement in the "genital-focused" One Taste sex cult, which has been accused of human trafficking. Elana and her husband eventually left the cult, but Elana has found an equally dubious way to give her life meaning.
Elana Auerbach is proudly identified anti-Zionist. One day after October 7, the single largest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust, Elana joined local extremist groups to rally in front of San Francisco's Israeli Consulate, in the time-honored local tradition of gloating over the deaths of innocents
Look at Elana's smile!
Elana Auerbach celebrating the October 7th massacre |
Elana's been making appearances at UC Berkeley's "How dare the Jews fight back" encampment, proudly posing with fellow outside agitator, Russell "Rusty" Bates.
Elana Auerbach and Rusty Bates at anti-Israel encampment, UC Berkeley |
Lest anyone think they are participating in a peace rally, the encampment at Cal Berkeley features a banner promoting "Victory to the resistance".
October 7 gave the world a glimpse of what Palestinian "resistance" looks like.
Who's Elana's good buddy, Rusty Bates? Rusty's a Berkeley fixture, an unhinged antisemite known for interrupting Berkeley City Council meetings and Jewish community events on and off campus.
Rusty Bates interrupting Berkeley City Council meeting |
Rusty Bates arrested in front of the Israeli consulate, 2014 |
Apparently Elana Auerbach's mother never told her that you are known by the company you keep.
So Berkeley voters, its time to mobilize. That means registering and voting. Lets work together to keep partisan extremists off the Berkeley City Council, and lets keep the focus on building a better Berkeley.