Anti-Israel protesters are accused of deafness and dumbness of Washington, DC Rabbi, while trying to pray for Israel’s hostages outside the U.S. embassy, were ordered to pay his $182,000 legal bill for false accusations of stalking.
Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld October 7, 2023. He went to the embassy because it was the closest place he himself was to Israel.
When he arrived, the embassy was with anti-Israel protesters. These include former UN official Hazami Barmada and teachers of Atefeh Rokhvand, founder of the anti-genocide. Barmada and Rokhvand were holding daily demonstrations at the embassy at that time.
As a rabbi Pray for the hostages Returning home by Hamas in Gaza, he encountered a “chaotic scene” of anti-Israel protesters who accuse him and laugh at him. Ms. Barmada compared Herzfeld and his colleagues to “Nazis” and said his presence in the embassy was “funny”.
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Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld went to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC to pray for hostages when he encountered a warring anti-Israel mob. (Lucy North/PA image via Getty Images)
“This is the loudest outdoor scene I’ve ever seen in my life, it’s refreshing and deafening … I’ve never seen anything like that in DC,” Hertzfield told Hertzfield. Fox News figures.
At some point, the rabbi called anti-Israel protesters “evil”, court documents said. Barmada, wearing headphones and speaking to the megaphone, declared that “it’s time for an alarm” and protesters began to call Herzfeld loud siren that caused ear damage. He filed a federal lawsuit against Barmada and Rokhvand. Two women then filed a lawsuit against the rabbi to follow.
Hertzfield said: “That’s Shabos, my parents are over, my kids are there, and I go home from prayer. I know, my wife has had the fear of the police that she once had-she said the police came, they left, they left, they – they – they gave me this temporary restraining order.”
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Rabbi claims he was shocked by the noise he was in the protest. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
During a three-day trial Anti-Israel protesters He claimed that when he entered and exited, he flocked to laugh at the rabbi. He said it was a lot of pressure, very embarrassed by the idea of his neighbor (who saw the police arrive at his home) and could have thought the case was valuable. In court, Herzfeld took a photo with the Bible.
“I am reciting Psalm 121 myself, ‘I lift my eyes to the mountain, where to come from my help.’ I am reciting Psalm 132 [sic] From the depths to yourself- you know, praying to God as a prayer- “From the depths of my calling you, please, God, answer me,’“ He narrated it.
The judge ruled against Barmada and Rokhvand and ordered them to pay Herzfeld’s legal fees for a total of $182,000. The judge noted that both were often engaged in abrasive acts of constitutional protection, such as Barmada throwing fake blood in the direction of the car entering or exiting the then-state secretary, while the rabbi’s actions at the embassy were also constitutionally protected remarks that he did not actually stuck them in them.
Israeli soldiers inspected cars for the festival parade at the scene of Hamas gunmen attacking Nova Festival near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip on October 13, 2023. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
“There is no evidence that the respondents have ever threatened the petitioner. There is no evidence that he has ever been monitored, monitored or monitored them. The only time he saw them was the place where the protests were three times (only two times on Ms. Rokhvand). In these cases, his presence was not in prayer for some people, not anyone else, some of his or others, some of his or others were in some places or others; (March 21 and May 2) the judge wrote.
Barmada and Rokhvand’s attorney Gregg Lipper said his client would appeal the ruling, claiming that the court’s ruling came from “serious legal, factual and procedural errors.” Lipper claims that Rabbi and his colleagues have made his clients “fear of their safety.”
“The court’s judgment ordered my client to pay nearly $200,000 to law firms against the petition, improperly punishing my client for trying to protect their rights in court,” the lawyer said. “This is a particularly bad time given the intense lawsuit against women, Muslims, and threats and violence against citizens and human rights advocates,” he added.
Herzfeld vowed to collect “every minute” from two women and called her lawsuit “abuse of the American judicial system.” The rabbi swore that the incident would not stop him from praying and speaking for the hostages who were still trapped in Gaza.
“I don’t know who these people were who they were before the embassy met them…I only had three interactions with them. Their whole strategy was to attack me and then claim they were victims. Do you know who else did that?
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Barmada and Rokhvand did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
