[ May 3, 2024 ]
Islamic Jew-hatred requires ‘creative solutions.’
Istanbul synagogue offers worshipers helmets for their protection
After two deadly terror attacks in the city, Beth Israel has taken a most unusual step; worshipers say local Jews live in fear, and no longer walk around in public wearing their skullcaps.
Itamar Eichner|YNet January 24, 2019:
Story continues below advertisementAs fears grow of terror attacks in Turkey, one synagogue in Istanbul has come up with an unorthodox solution. Worshipers at Beth Israel Synagogue are invited to take a pew, and help themselves to the helmet placed under each seat.
The Beth Israel Synagogue is the only shul in the world in which worshipers pray with helmets at hand for their protection. A member of the congregation said the helmets were introduced after the series of terror attack were carried out against the Jewish community in Istanbul in 2003. Two car bombs—one near the Neve Shalom Synagogue and another near the Beth Israel Synagogue — claimed the lives of 23 people in total. In addition, 303 people were wounded, 100 of whom were Jews.
Helmets under the seats at Beth Israel synagogueA group of ultra-Orthodox worshipers from Israel were allowed to pray in the Beth Israel Synagogue only after undergoing a strict security inspection. When they entered the synagogue, they were amazed to see the helmets underneath every pew.
Beth Israel’s worshipers say that Jews in Istanbul live in fear, refraining from walking around with skullcaps. “Synagogues in Istanbul look like fortified military bases,” one worshiper said.
Anti-Jewish slogan at a Turkish elementary schoolWith relations between the once-friendly Ankara and Jerusalem in decline, anti-Semitism in Turkey is on the rise. A Jewish voter casting his ballot at an elementary school in Istanbul in July 2018 was shocked to see slogans on the bulletin board that read: “Jew equals liar”, “A Jew stabs people in the back,” and “A Jew is a coward who kills weak people.”
Another poster at the school included a call to liberate Jerusalem from the Jewish state.
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13 Comments
5 years ago
Unjust Muhammad said his Messiah would return when trees & stones would lure Muhammadists to unjustly murder Jews.
5 years ago
I’d be interested in learning if all the muslum perps who blew up the two synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey (spit) in 2003 have already been released, I know for a fact most of them have already served out their sentences (some only got 6 years for conspiring to commit a terrorist attack that killed 23 people, an example of islamic “justice” in action).
5 years ago
moslem equals liar, A moslem stabs people in the back, and A moslem is a coward who kills weak people. Aside from all of those pleasantries, a moslem is the vilest of ALL creatures.
5 years ago
That’s STUPID….giving them guns for protection would be much better!!!!
5 years ago
They should put Uzis under the seats, not useless helmets.
5 years ago
Reply to
Greg
The odds of a kufar being allowed to own firearms, much less sub-machineguns, in any muslum pig’s anus state is as remote as freedom and liberty breaking out across the muslum world.
5 years ago
Jews in Turkey, Egypt, Iran and other Muslim dominated countries need to leave.
It will only get worse for them.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
They also have to leave from France, UK, Germany, Canada, Ukraine,Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden, Minnesota, Michigan. Did I miss anything?
5 years ago
I hope Erdogan does NOT start persecuting the Jewish minority in his country soon! His so-called democracy is already dying!
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Turkish muslums persecuting unbelievers in islum? Tell me it ain’t so!
5 years ago
How about providing firearms and training –
5 years ago
Leave the Islamic country and settle in Israel
5 years ago
There was a documentary about the vanishingly small Jewish population of Indonesia (spit) they don’t dare wear kippah publicly either and their synagogues have absolutely NO external indication they’re synagogues at all, yet Indonesia isn’t anywhere near Europe? I wonder what the connection could be between Jewish persecution in Turkey vis-a-vis Indonesia? I just can’t guess….
