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Anti -Israeli demonstrators who are accused of staggered by Washington, Colombia, when he tried to pray for Israel’s hostages outside the US Embassy, was ordered to pay for his $ 182,000 bills after falsely accused of persecution.
Rabin Schmuel Hertzfeld went to the Israeli Embassy in Colombia on March 21, 2024, near the Jewish Purima holiday to pray for Israelis who captured Hamas’s terrorists October 7, 2023. He went to the embassy because it was the closest place, in his mind, to Israel himself.
When he arrived, the embassy was abandoned by anti -Israel demonstrators. Among them were a former UN official Khaza Barmada and teachers against the founder of Genocide Athef Rockwand. At that time, Barmada and Rockwanda conducted daily demonstrations at the embassy.
As a rabbi solemn prayed for the hostages He spent Hamas in Gaza to return home, he collided with the “chaotic scene” of anti -Israel protesters who beat and mocked him. Mrs. Barmada appeared to Herzfeld and his colleagues with the Nazis and said that his presence at the Embassy “Merry”.
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Rabin Schmuel Herzfeld went to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, the Colombia District to pray for hostages when he collided with a militant anti -Israel mafia. (Photo Lucy North/Pa Images via Getty Images)
“It was the loudest scene in the open air I have ever seen in my life, it was the splitting of my ears, it was deafening … I never saw anything like that,” hertzfeld said Fox News Digital.
At one point, the rabbi called the anti -Israel demonstrators “evil”, court documents said. Barmada, who was in the headphone and spoke in the megaphone, announced the “time of the siren”, and the participants of the rally began to explode the loud sirens that Herzfeld allegedly caused him his ear. He filed a federal lawsuit against Barmada and Rockwanda. Later, two women filed their lawsuit against the rabbi for persecution.
“It was Shabbas, my parents were over, and my children were there, and I came home from prayers. And my wife was, in horror that the police – she said that the police came to our door, and they went and they gave me, you know, this temporary holding the order,” hertzfeld said.
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Rabbi claims he was stunned by the protest. (Kent Nichemur/Getti Image)
On a three -day trial, Anti -Israeli demonstrators When he came in and went out, he threw the court building and mocked the rabbi. He said it was very tense and very ashamed to think that his neighbors who saw that the police were coming to his door could think that there was a merit. In court, Hertzfeld comforted himself scripture.
“I read Psalm 121 for myself:” I lift my eyes to the mountains, where my help came from. “I recited Psalm 132 (s) to myself from the depth to – you know, God as a prayer -” from the depth I call for you, please, answer me “” He told.
The judge ruled against Barmade and Rockwanda and ordered them to pay the legal fees of Herzfeld, which was $ 182,000. The judge noted that two often participate in constitutionally protected abrasive behavior, such as Barmada, throwing fake blood towards cars that were part of or leaving the then House of Antoni Blinken, and that the actions of the rabbi at the embassy were also constitutionally protected.
Israeli soldiers inspect the burnt festivals on the site of the Nova Gaza Gaza Festival, near the Israel’s border with a gas strip, in southern Israel, on October 13, 2023. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
“There is no evidence that the respondent, if -threatened the petitions. There is no evidence that he never followed, watched and did not place them. The only time he saw them was three times (only two against Ms. Rockwand). concern other people who mean that his presence was not an attempt to post pets or others (March 21), ”the judge writes.
Barmanad’s lawyer and Rockwanda Greg Lipper said his clients were appealing the ruling, saying that the court’s decision arose from “serious mistakes of law, facts and procedures”. Lipper claimed that the rabbi and his associates made their customers “afraid for security”.
“The trial that orders my customers to pay a law firm nearly $ 200,000, who oppose their petitions, wrongly punishes my customers for trying to defend their rights in court,” the lawyer said. “Particularly bad time to scare people from the request in court for help, given the threats and violence against (among other) women, Muslims and supporters of civil and human rights,” he added.
Herzfeld promised to assemble “every center” from two women and called them a “US judicial system”. Rabbi promised that the incident would not prevent him from praying and standing for hostages who are still trapped in gas.
“I had no idea who these people before I met them at the embassy … I had only three interactions with them. The whole strategy was to attack me, and then claimed that they were victims. Do you know who else did it? Hamas terrorists who attacked Israel on October 7.”
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Barmada and Rockwand did not respond to the Fox News Digital request.
