Vandals set fire to a synagogue in southern Brazil after painting threats to the Jewish community on its walls.
Flammable fuel was poured under the main entrance door of the Israelite Society of Pelotas building on Thursday, and set it alight causing minor damage. The criminals also wrote pro-Palestinian messages on the wall as well as threats to the Jewish community, which should “wait” for an “international Intifada.”
\
Local Jewish leaders said the attack was “an insult to democracy and freedom of speech and religion,” and called for the involvement of federal authorities.
The synagogue’s wooden door and furniture, glass windows, and electric installations were damaged.
“It is alarming that the tension in the Middle East translates into an attack on the Brazilian Jewish community. We have contacted the police authorities responsible for investigating and punishing the perpetrators of this criminal act of violence and religious intolerance,” said Fernando Lottenberg, president of the Brazilian Israelite Confederation, the country’s umbrella Jewish organization.
This was the third recent attack on the synagogue. In addition to pro-Palestinian slogans, calls for the release of jailed leftist ex-president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva had been written on the walls in previous attacks. Arrested last month for corruption, populist leader Lula was a strong supporter of the Arab world and his two terms as president were marked with a strong anti-Israel sentiment.
Founded in 1933, the synagogue is the central meeting point for the 70 Jewish families of Pelotas. The city of some 350,000 residents is located in the south of Brazil’s southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, which includes the country’s largest population of German immigrants and their descendants and commonly sees neo-Nazi incidents.
Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.
Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.
Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.
Quick note: We cannot do this without your support. Fact. Our work is made possible by you
and only you. We receive no grants, government handouts, or major funding.Tech giants are shutting us down. You know this. Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Adsense, Pinterest permanently
banned us. Facebook, Google search et al have shadow-banned, suspended and deleted us from your news feeds.
They are disappearing us. But we are here.
Subscribe to Geller Report newsletter here— it’s free and it’s essential NOW when informed decision making and opinion is essential to America's survival.
Share our posts on your social channels and with your email contacts. Fight the great fight.
Remember, YOU make the work possible. If you can, please contribute to Geller Report.
Join The Conversation. Leave a Comment.
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spammy or unhelpful, click the - symbol under the comment to let us know. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
If you would like to join the conversation, but don't have an account, you can sign up for one right here.
If you are having problems leaving a comment, it's likely because you are using an ad blocker, something that break ads, of course, but also breaks the comments section of our site. If you are using an ad blocker, and would like to share your thoughts, please disable your ad blocker. We look forward to seeing your comments below.
00votes
Article Rating
28 Comments
Oldest
NewestMost Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
The last sentence of the article seems to be trying to imply neo-nazis are responsible, but I don’t believe that, unless the neo-nazis have names like Abu, Farid, Farshad, Fuqwad and all hold the quranus as a holey book.
The only real difference is that one group of nazis has darker skin, but yes, I think this was perpetrated by an Abu, Farid or even a Mahmoud or Muhammad.
R. Arandas
5 years ago
THIS is an example of a real “hate crime”, not the faux cases that the Muslims constantly complain and whine about.
MAS
5 years ago
Flee to Israel children of Abraham. You’re not safe anywhere these days…
poetcomic1
5 years ago
The Lebanese Arabs in Pelotas are prime source of Jew hatred. Same is true in much of Australia as well.
Jane Dowe
5 years ago
Perhaps it’s time the Jewish and
Christian communities started retaliating. Every time those subhuman savages spraypaints islamic threats, Jewish and Christians should grafitti their mosques with passages and verses of God’s love.
They damage a synagogue or church, then a mosque should get a coat of bacon.
Enough is enough.
So true
5 years ago
The Jews deserve this!!! … because they NEVER fight back, and I mean with force!!! F mooHamad, F allaH, F pisslam!!!
The leftist media, as is usual, do not notice the truth about this fact. It was really an act of terrorism. Brazil needs to open its eyes. This week also, Brazilian police authorities, alerted by the Spanish authorities, arrested eleven people who were intending to commit terrorist acts in Brazil, mirroring themselves in the acts committed in Germany, London and France, with intent even to be committed during the carnival in Rio de Janeiro, where there is an immense concentration of people and thousands of tourists.
Wow, can you imagine a muslum terrorist attack during Carnival? Or during Mardi Gras in New Orleans?
Mickey Oberman
5 years ago
The Brazilians, if they had half a brain, would take a lesson from their neighbours the Venezuelans who forced their Jewish citizens to flee discrimination. Venezuela was one of the most wealthy and productive and successful of the South American countries.
Now with most of their Jews gone they are literally starving to death and killing each other. Their rate of inflation is over 1,000% per annum. It will very soon be another Islamic satrapy, slaves to the followers of Allah.
And they well deserve it.
I wonder if the Pope is losing much sleep over the loss of yet more Catholics to Islam.
By forcing the Jews out, Venezuela came under a curse, even as the LORD told Abraham in Genesis 12:3,
“I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Just as “all roads lead to Rome”, the pope seems to believe that all “religions” lead to heaven. If I were elected to feed God’s sheep, I would be literary scared to death. Those in such position of authority will be held more accountable.
Ed Newbold
5 years ago
Hey… I’m waiting and ready. Bring that crap here to ME you freaking demented Islamic pieces of crap! Ed in Ohio!
Alfa Hidequel
5 years ago
The leftist media, as is usual, do not notice the truth about this fact. It was really an act of terrorism. Brazil needs to open its eyes.
The leftist media, as is usual, do not notice the truth about this fact. It was really an act of terrorism. Brazil needs to open its eyes. This week also, Brazilian police authorities, alerted by the Spanish authorities, arrested eleven people who were intending to commit terrorist acts in Brazil, mirroring themselves in the acts committed in Germany, London and France, with intent even to be committed during the carnival in Rio de Janeiro, where there is an immense concentration of people and thousands of tourists.
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
5 years ago
Jews living the good ‘safe life’ in the West,… will never accept they are WRONG about Islam !!!
A VERY SMALL MINORITY OF “Jews living the good ‘safe’life’…….”.
Why single out only the Jews?
Are they not allowed to live the good safe life?
You anti Semitic bigot!
I wonder if the Jews of Yeshua, Hillel’s, Hezekiah’s or David’s time were fond of wearing bearskin caps and dark clothes in the 100°F+ summer temperatures of the Mid-East?
Glen Benjamin
5 years ago
ISlam is gain7ng a foothold in South America. Many Syrian refugees now live there too.
poetcomic1
5 years ago
These are the same overseas Lebanese Arabs who make such a mess in Australian cities as well. They have been in Brazil for generations and their virulence has, if anything, increased with the worldwide radicalization of the ummah.
shaongaon
5 years ago
Ignorance is bliss? No. Ignorance is islam and anyone who believes a word that comes out of it.
Michel Cabral
5 years ago
até que não seria má ideia se tivéssemos aqui no brasil ataques terrorista, mas deveriam ser direcionados ao governo, comandos presidenciais deste pais de merda, pois estes massacram com vidas! quanto aos pedidos de libertação preso bandido analfabeto luiz inácio da silva mais conhecido como lula, esse deveria ter a cabeça decapitada pois contribui muito para afundar, sucumbir essa nação!
It is the conflict of our age, yet no one dares talk about it. The true story of the Islamic Supremacist war on free speech as told by those on the front lines fighting for our First Amendment rights,
.
Pamela Geller tells her own story of how she became one of the world's foremost activists for the freedom of speech,
individual rights, and equality of rights for all. "It's my story, it's what happens when someone fights for freedom in America today,"
Geller explained.
Today Islamic supremacists are demanding more accommodation of Islamic principles
and practices than ever, and daily growing more aggressive in eroding our freedoms – with politically
correct public officials only too happy..
Popular conservative blogger Pamela Geller and New York Times bestselling author
Robert Spencer sound a wake-up call for Americans to stop the Obama administration from limiting our
hard-won...
The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks is a groundbreaking documentary on the controversy
over the planned Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero.