“Raping their daughters!” “We are Nazis and proud!” “f— the Jews!“
These are anti-Semitic chants from anti-Israel protesters in Australia, England and France, where deadly attacks on Jews have recently occurred. But that’s not America, right?
Those were the words shouted on November 13, 2024 in New Jersey, outside an Israeli real estate event in Congregation Ohr Toraminutes earlier, Altaf Sharif allegedly charged David Silberberg – who tried to use pepper spray to fend off an attack – and knocked the Jewish man to the ground, putting him in a tight chokehold.
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Moshe Glick speaks at a pro-Israel rally just days after the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre. (Amir Goldstein/Creative Image Productions)
To those who followed the exploits of the pro-Palestinian gangs, Sharif’s actions were entirely predictable.
When 53-year-old West Orange resident Moshe Glick saw Silberberg’s legs buckling, he quickly took action and grabbed his small flashlight, which he happened to have with him that evening.
While aiming at his back, the rapid movement of people caused Glick to accidentally hit Sharif’s head, causing minor cuts.
Sharif initially refused medical attention and reportedly told officers he was fine.
Dozens of Keffiyeh-clad terrorist sympathizers gathered near Ohr Torah that evening, hurling Jew-hating epithets and to ask the Jews gathered that evening: “How many babies have you killed today?”
Several protesters, including Sharif, began blowing vuvuzelas, which the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) deemed an instrument. weapon in this case, because it is “reasonably known to cause permanent noise-induced hearing loss.”
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Memorials at the site of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack at the Supernova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im, Israel, on Monday, May 27, 2024. (Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Just ask Moshe Glick, who had the horn-shaped device blown several inches out of his ear.
Glick was simply trying to exercise his right to be at the entrance of this synagogue without fear of intimidation, when he saw someone fighting for his life and decided to intervene.
Sharif and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group accused by critics of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, acknowledged the ease with which the night’s narrative could be rewritten.
A competing narrative soon emerged, and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office decided not to charge the instigator, Sharif, but Dr. Glick, who was told he could be sentenced to five to 10 years in prison if found guilty.
Glick found the idea of reaching a plea deal, which would bar prison time and likely wipe his criminal record, “contrary to the facts, the law, basic fairness and the need to stand up for what is right.”
In his words, this case is “not my fight alone,” but rather a fight for Jewish-Christian civil rights.
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Fortunately, the Trump administration is viewing this case through the same morally responsible lens and believes New Jersey prosecutors are targeting the wrong person.
In a historic first, the DOJ announced in September that it would file civil charges against six of the protesters, including Sharif, and two pro-Palestinian groups.
The DOJ confirms that this cohort violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a 1994 law whose original intent was to protect those who enter abortion clinics. The case involving Moshe Glick is the first time the FACE Act has been applied to protect a house of worship.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon has stated that the DOJ would not do that to rule out criminal prosecution.
Synagogues remain the new venue where Islamist extremists further their violent goals. Cloning this strategy, activists descended on Park East Synagogue in November to disrupt a similar real estate event, with one protester repeatedly admitting, “We have to scare them.”
People hold an Israeli and American flag in front of a large group of anti-Israel protesters marching outside The Grove shopping center on Black Friday, holding a giant banner reading “Shut it Down for Palestine” in Los Angeles, November 24, 2023. (David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images)
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Last month, far-left protesters at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple unleashed a barrage of coordinated anti-police and anti-Israel messages at those gathering for a community safety forum.
The actions the federal government has taken regarding the Glick case suggest that this DOJ is not falling for the left’s crazy and dangerous game. These hatefests take place largely in blue states, where Democratic politicians and their judicial picks retain reflexive sympathies for people like Sharif and are repelled by Jews like Glick.
Strong Jews make liberals prudish.
Recognizing that the FACE Act is in effect at this precise moment, the DOJ is placing the blame exactly where it should be: on the shoulders of anti-Semitic disruptors.
The outcome in Glick’s case will determine whether Islamists who place themselves outside a synagogue think twice before expressing their violent obsession.
This case isn’t just about Moshe Glick. It is only a matter of time before radical activists who embrace jihadist rhetoric turn their anger on churches.
“First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people!”
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We do not want this to be sung outside our churches and Sunday schools for some time to come.
The Moshe Glick case is about the ability of all freedom-loving Americans to worship in peace, without placing their lives in the hands of jihadists, their collaborators and liberal officials who flout the law.
