Pro-Hamas fiends back the slaughter of babies in Brooklyn

On Tuesday night, anti-Israel agitators descended on the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park in Brooklyn, ostensibly to protest a real-estate event.

In reality, they were protesting the very existence of the Jewish state, and Jews writ large. 

You wouldn’t know it from that violent scene, but a cease-fire is currently in effect in Gaza.

It has held for over a month to facilitate the exchanges of Israeli hostages for hundreds of Palestinian terrorists serving time in Israeli jails for committing attacks.

Those Brooklyn demonstrators don’t wish for peace, but for destruction and more death. 

“There is only one solution, intifada revolution,” an organizer yelled through a megaphone.

The crowd shouted, “Settlers, settlers, go back home, Palestine is ours alone.” 

These violent protests didn’t occur in a vacuum. 

They came as the Jewish world was reeling on learning the fate of the Bibas family after more than 500 days of uncertainty.

The video of the Oct. 7, 2023, abduction of Shiri Bibas and her two young redheaded sons — Ariel, 4, and Kfir, 9 months — flashed around the world, a symbol of the true depravity of the attacks.

Now comes word that their bodies and that of an elderly hostage, Oded Lifshitz, will be returned to Israel under the cease-fire agreement. 

As a mother of young redheaded children, I saw my kids reflected in the images of the Bibas boys.

My baby and Kfir were the same age, and as I put him to bed every night for months following Oct. 7, I would try to imagine how Shiri was putting Kfir to bed.

Did he have a crib, did he have a bottle? 

Whenever I carry two of my little ones and my arms feel tired, my mind goes to Shiri. How she carried these boys close to her for hours, into Gaza. How her arms must have burned.

But she held them close. As any mother would.

As no mother should.

We will never know the horrors Shiri and her young sons faced; their stories died with them.

“How many kids did you kill today?” they chanted in the streets of Brooklyn.

But the lives of the Jewish children who will be buried in Israel after their bodies were held for over a year are of no import to those cravenly screeching about kids.  

“Zionists go to hell,” another chant that rang through Borough Park Tuesday, was particularly grotesque.

Many Israelis are quoting national poet Chaim Nachman Bialik’s 1903 poem “On the Slaughter” as they mourn the news of two small bodies coming home from Gaza in coffins.

Bialik wrote, “No such revenge — revenge for the blood of a little child — has yet been devised by Satan.”

Hell is reserved not for those who support the existence of the Jewish state, but for those who murder children and their mother in cold blood.

The protesters who showed up in Borough Park expected to shove and abuse the Jews living there. One attempted to ram his car into Jews at the intersection of 14th Avenue and 37th Street. 

They were in for a rude awakening. 

The Jewish community fought back, as members physically defended their families and homes.

They made clear that, as former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin once said, “I am not a Jew with trembling knees.” 

The New York Police Department joined them, shielding Jewish residents from the violence that anti-Israel activist group Pal-Awda intended to inflict in the Orthodox enclave. 

“Go back to Europe” has been a frequent refrain from antisemitic protesters in the months since Oct. 7. Delegitimizing the Jewish claim on the land of Israel, the haters want Jews to return to the land where they faced the worst crimes in humanity’s history.

The protesters on Tuesday aimed to re-enact scenes from Nazi Germany, inflicting pain on Jews with impunity.

But times have changed, and the Jews stood up to them, defended by the NYPD and American politicians.

The Hamas attack on Israel created a new kind of Jew. We now understand that the existential threats to our existence are not history; they are here in our present day.

We see those who call for our destruction in our own streets, rioting in support of those who committed the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. 

These depraved people, who, on the eve of Israel reclaiming the bodies of a baby, a toddler and their mother murdered in Gaza, tried to call for open season on the Jews of New York.

But now when these antisemites threaten, they better be ready to face post-Oct. 7 Jews. The protesters in Borough Park got a taste of them Tuesday night. 

Bethany Mandel writes and podcasts at The Mom Wars and is a homeschooling mother of six in greater Washington, DC.