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Jewish-Owned Bagel Shop in Miami Vandalized With Antisemitic Graffiti, Gets Cleaned Up by Mayor, Federal Judge
Graffiti outside Holy Bagels & Pizzeria in downtown Miami. Photo: Screenshot
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and US District Court Judge Roy Altman were among those who helped clean off antisemitic graffiti from a Jewish-owned kosher restaurant in downtown Miami that was vandalized on Sunday.
“Free Palestine” and “Stop Genocide” were spray painted in red on the front door and windows of Holy Bagels & Pizzeria. A security camera from inside the store captured a hooded person early Sunday morning spraying the windows and doors. The vandal also tore down from outside the store an Israeli-American flag that said “Stand With Israel” and spray painted “Free Palestine” on that as well.
“I’m here because we will not allow antisemites to silence our community,” Altman said, when asked why he came to help scrub off the graffiti from the bagel shop. “We are one community. We love the West, we support Israel. We Jews will never be silenced like we were in 1941. We will never go down [like in] 1941 again. Am Israel Chai [Long live Israel]. God bless America.”
“Hate speech, vandalism, and hostility will never be tolerated,” said Suarez. He added that the city of Miami “will always support these small businesses as they face antisemitism.”
Security company owner Auggie Mejia offered to provide free patrols to Josh Nodel, the owner of Holy Bagels & Pizzeria, and Miami-Dade Mayor Daniela Kava also visited the restaurant after the vandalism to express solidarity with the eatery and the Jewish community. The Miami Police Department has launched an antisemitic hate crime investigation into Sunday’s vandalism and released a photo of the suspect who they believe is responsible for the incident. Miami Police Chief Manuel Morales said police detectives are “working around the clock” to identify and locate those responsible for the “senseless” vandalism.
“As a society, we must unequivocally reject and not tolerate hate crimes in any form,” Morales added. “Discrimination, violence, and prejudice have no place in our communities, and it is essential that we stand united against such acts to create a safer and more inclusive community.”
Holy Bagels & Pizzeria said in an Instagram post that it will not let the vandalism over the weekend deter its support for Israel.
“We will not let it get us down. This is what they do. They hurt and destroy and want us to cower in fear,” read the Instagram post. “But we are strong and united and only love will destroy their hate. We will not back down, we stand forever united with Israel.”
Nodel’s other bagel shop in Miami Beach was defaced three times in the past eight months, including the ripping down of Israeli flags.
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Treasure Trove: How a Polish-Jewish artist told Canadians about the horrors of Nazi Germany and produced beautiful illustrations
Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was a Polish-Jewish artist whose work reflected the historic times he lived: the two world wars, the rise of totalitarianism in Europe and the birth of the State of Israel. In 1940, with the support of the British government and the Polish government-in-exile, he visited Canada to popularize the struggle against Nazism. […]
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Biden hits Fundraising Trail in Show of Strength after Dismal Debate Performance
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., June 28, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
President Joe Biden embarks on a series of fundraising events across two states on Saturday as he works to stamp out a crisis of confidence in his re-election campaign following a feeble debate performance that dismayed his fellow Democrats.
Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will visit the upscale New York beach enclave known as the Hamptons for a campaign fundraiser hosted by hedge-fund billionaire Barry Rosentein. Later in the day, he will travel to New Jersey for a fundraiser hosted by wealthy New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat.
Fellow hedge-fund founder Eric Mindich and his Tony Award-winning producer wife Stacey, celebrity couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, and actor Michael J. Fox are all listed as members of the host committee at the New York event, according to an invitation seen by Reuters.
Biden told a rally in North Carolina on Friday he intended to defeat Republican rival Donald Trump in the November presidential election, giving no sign he would heed calls from Democrats who want him to drop out of the race.
Biden‘s verbal stumbles and occasionally meandering responses during Thursday night’s debate heightened voter concerns that the 81-year-old might not be fit to serve another four-year term.
The Biden campaign on Saturday boasted it had raised more than $27 million between debate day through Friday evening, but questions remain about whether the debate performance will hurt fundraising, at least in the short term.
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Arab League Rescinds the Classification of Hezbollah as a Terrorist Group
Mourners carry a coffin during the funeral of Wissam Tawil, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces who according to Lebanese security sources was killed during an Israeli strike on south Lebanon, in Khirbet Selm, Lebanon, Jan. 9, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Aziz Taher
i24 News – The Arab League no longer defines Hezbollah as a proscribed terrorist group, an official said on Saturday.
Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based Shiite militia and a proxy of the Islamic regime in Iran, boasts the world’s largest rocket arsenal of any non-state actor. It is animated by the antisemitic ideology of jihad and is committed to the destruction of Israel.
“In earlier Arab League decisions, Hezbollah was designated as a terrorist organization, and this designation was reflected in the resolutions,” Hossam Zaki, the assistant secretary-general of the Arab League, was quoted in Arab media as saying.
“The League’s member states concurred that the labeling of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization should no longer be employed,” Zaki said, adding that the regional body “does not maintain terrorist lists and does not actively seek to designate entities in such a manner.”
Hezbollah has unleashed numerous rockets, mortars and drones on northern Israel in the past eight months starting on October 8, a day after the Jewish state suffered the worst antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust at the hands of the Palestinian jihadists of Hamas.
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