Video footage shared by Los Angeles' KABC-TV shows at least two groups clashing outside the city's Museum of Tolerance on Pico Boulevard.
Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department arrived at the scene as punches were exchanged and pepper spray was used.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, some 200 people were in attendance at the screening, where there was a heavy security presence. An official with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, and Hollywood executives were among those reported to have attended the event.
Called Bearing Witness, the 43-minute film was described as featuring "extremely graphic and violent" video footage "documenting the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7th, 2023." According to reports, the film includes footage shot by members of Hamas.
The location of the film's screening was shared online ahead of time, necessitating an FBI advance team, per The Hollywood Reporter. On the night of the screening there was a heavy police presence, with several LAPD officers stationed outside the museum's theater, on the surrounding streets and in a helicopter.
#BREAKING: Two groups clash outside L.A.'s Museum of Tolerance as the center screens a film on Hamas atrocities. LAPD officers move in as several people appear to have been punched and pepper-sprayed. Eyewitness News is live with the tense situation. Tonight at 11 from ABC7 Nov 09, 2023 at 2:55 AM EST
-- So far no mass shootings at these gatherings unlike so many others in the last 4 years.
#BREAKING: Two groups clash outside L.A.'s Museum of Tolerance as the center screens a film on Hamas atrocities. LAPD officers move in as several people appear to have been punched and pepper-sprayed. Eyewitness News is live with the tense situation. Tonight at 11 from ABC7 pic.twitter.com/JJSpV6MmXi
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) November 9, 2023
Los Angeles-based J-Town Action and Solidarity, which describes itself as a "grassroots collective dedicated to revolutionary organizing [and] building community power in Little Tokyo,"
| ...sounds like yet another tentacle of the Antifa/Black Bloc anarcho-communist syndicate that is the fighting arm of the Democratic Party... |
"So anyways, it would be a shame if folks happened to be congregating at the below address this Wednesday evening (11/8)," read a November 6 post on X, formerly Twitter. The post included the address of the venue.
The account, which has expressed support for Palestinians, later called for the screening to be canceled, amid claims that "Zionists are now making threats of gun violence on pro-Palestine protestors."
"We must demand that the @musoftolerance & @GalGadot cancel this event for EVERYONE'S safety," read the November 7 post. "FLOOD THEIR LINES!!"
The Los Angeles Times reported that there were Jews among those protesting against the screening of Bearing Witness.
| They love to trumpet it — I have a niece who posted on Facebook about her support, as a Jew, of Palestine. It’s true that her father is Jewish. But he died when she was a toddler, and her mother is Catholic. Which is fine, but she has never been involved Jewishly other than a few months working as a secretary for the local Jewish community center, so her only connection is DNA. |
| That definitely sounds like Antifa. |
Film showing Hamas atrocities screened 70 times around world — report
[IsraelTimes] Israel authorities have screened a 47-minute compilation showing some of the worst atrocities committed on October 7 some 70 times in 30 countries, the Ynet news site reports.
Four screenings have been arranged for New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
editorial staff alone, including in foreign bureaus, according to the report, as well as two for White House staff. Among those to see the film are the heads of the CIA and MI5, as well as leaders of other Western spy agencies. Some 1,000 people have viewed it so far, it reports.
The film, largely made of bodycam footage recovered from dead terrorists, is being used as part of Israel’s public relations push to help explain its harsh response in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
and the necessity of eliminating the Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...terror group.
Amid reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is mulling releasing the film to the public, some families have come out against the plan, according to Ynet. Among them is Sabine Taasa, whose husband is seen on the film jumping on a grenade to save his kids. Gil Taasa was killed, along with their son Or.
"I don’t want it to come out. I’ll never agree to it," she tells the news site. "I commemorate their lives, not their deaths."
