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Pro-Hamas/anti-Israel protesters at Jewish elementary school shout “babykillers” at a bus full of very young Jewish students
A Jewish mother of five in upstate Woodstock, NY, said that the protesters, who told the children that their parents were “complicit in genocide” chained themselves together and threatened to put her children on a “Zionist watchlist.”
NY Post A Jewish mother was left stunned after anti-Israel protesters shut down the road near her children’s upstate New York elementary school. “They were screaming at the kids and anyone who tried to get across or got near them,” Byce Gruber of Woodstock told The Post. “They told my kids that their parents were complicit in genocide, that they’re baby killers.”
Gruber said she had trouble coming up with answers for her kids about the things they heard when dozens of protesters descended on their small town on Tuesday to target the Ametek Rotron defense manufacturing company, which is based down the road from the Woodstock Elementary School.
While Gruber was in disbelief that such a demonstration broke out in her small town of about 6,000 people, what was even more concerning was that her own neighbors came out in support of it. “They were cheering them on, shouting, ‘We love you,’” Gruber said. “That was the worst part.”
Gruber added that when she confronted the protesters, a local man had been recording her and her 7-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter, warning them that he would upload their images on a “Zionist Jew watchlist.”
“It was all really disturbing,” Grubber said. “And not a single person has reached out to our Jewish community to say something or check in afterwards.”
The demonstrators, who identified themselves as “Hudson Valley Neighbors,” had chained themselves together and blocked Route 375 to the Ametek building, alleging that the company developed parts of the weapons being supplied to Israel from the US, the Mid Hudson News reported.
The protesters held up a large banner that read, “Ametek Rotron Manufactures Genocide.”
Lily Jones, of Queens, identified herself as a spokesperson for the group and told the local outlet that the war in Gaza has nothing to do with the Oct. 7 massacre that left more than 1,200 people dead.
Town Supervisor Bill McKenna told reporters at the scene that while the demonstrators have a right to protest, they could not block access to private property.
Several protesters were eventually arrested in the afternoon and taken to New York State police headquarters in Hurley for booking, according to Woodstock police. The Onteora School District said it had stationed a school resource officer at Woodstock Elementary “to ensure that everyone felt safe.”
Gruber shared her encounter with the protesters on Instagram, revealing that the elementary school did not allow students outside for recess over the protest.
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Sharon Nsays
Only one per cent of deaths in Gaza are civilian deaths, whereas Hamas kidnapped babies and bunt them to death. These people need to do some research and try learning to think for themselves.
It’s getting way out of hand. Jews in that area must band together and pressurize the police and local authorities to arrest these hoodlums.
They should also have armed escorts in those school buses. You don’t have to fire at these scum. A few shots in the air are enough to scatter them away.
That this happened in America is disgusting. No minority, be it Jew or black, should have to endure this abasement or degradation in America. This is the yelling fire in the theater.
Wannabe mudslime filth who probably couldn’t even point to Israel on a map, screaming at innocent kids … And they call themselves “Hudson Valley Neighbors” … sigh
Also, that man with the camera should be arrested for photographing children. There’s your local paedophile ladies and gentlemen!
Sharon N says
Only one per cent of deaths in Gaza are civilian deaths, whereas Hamas kidnapped babies and bunt them to death. These people need to do some research and try learning to think for themselves.
Stevw says
It’s getting way out of hand. Jews in that area must band together and pressurize the police and local authorities to arrest these hoodlums.
They should also have armed escorts in those school buses. You don’t have to fire at these scum. A few shots in the air are enough to scatter them away.
Ray Jarman says
That this happened in America is disgusting. No minority, be it Jew or black, should have to endure this abasement or degradation in America. This is the yelling fire in the theater.
Lee Vail AKA Kalev Efrayim says
So true, but… see below… sanity can endure but so much…
Me says
Wannabe mudslime filth who probably couldn’t even point to Israel on a map, screaming at innocent kids … And they call themselves “Hudson Valley Neighbors” … sigh
Also, that man with the camera should be arrested for photographing children. There’s your local paedophile ladies and gentlemen!
Lee Vail AKA Kalev Efrayim says
Death to Islam!
Tracie KOEHLER says
AMEN