Check out the overwhelming support for Yehonatan Ovadia, an anti-Zionist rabbi who appears in immigration court today. Yehonatan is in ICE custody and facing deportation to Israel because he attended an anti-Israel protest in 2023.
Free Yohanatan!
Widespread support from within the Jewish community outside the Immigration Court in Manhattan for anti-Zionist Jew Yehonatan Ovadia, who is currently held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after standing up to Zionism and expressing a Jewish rejection of Israeli genocide and occupation.
Massive support across the Jewish community outside the Immigration Court in Manhattan for anti-Zionist Jew Yehonatan Ovadia, who is currently in ICE detention after standing up to Zionism and expressing Jewish rejection of genocide and occupation.
Please support Yehonatan Ovadia, the rabbi detained by ICE for attending protest against Israel, by contributing to the official Go Fund Me.
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In a statement to Israel's Haaretz newspaper tonight, Trump's DHS says ICE detention of Yehonatan Ovadia is justified bc he was "harassing Jews."
Wait: a rabbi detained for participating in Hasidic demonstration against Israel 3 years ago was harassing...himself? What a joke!!
Update on Yehonatan Ovadia, rabbi detained by ICE for attending anti-Israel protest in 2023:
In his bond hearing this afternoon, DHS argued he poses a "danger" to the community (which community?). Imm judge rejected this argument, but denied bond claiming he is a "flight risk."
This is Yehonatan Ovadia, anti-Zionist rabbi detained by ICE for High Holidays bc he protested Israel 3 years ago.
When Netanyahu came to NYC to speak & slander opposition to genocide as "anti-semitism," Yehonatan was detained in Brooklyn.
Read/share his statement from jail:
Zionist Israeli police are brutally attacking Jews in the neighborhood in front of the synagogue while they worship.
Zionists hate Jews because they are Jews.
Zionism is antisemitism.
Source @authenttorahjew@TorahJudaism
Jews Want Netanyahu and the Zionist Movement Behind Bars — The End of Zionism Is Peace.
Rabbi Yitzchok Deutsch speaking at a protest in NYC against Netanyahu, who is wanted by the ICC on war-crimes and crimes-against-humanity charges.
This is an absolutely chilling and wild story: Anti-Zionist Hasidic Jews who took down an Israeli flag were charged with a hate crime. That criminal case went away. But now ICE is trying to deport one of those alleged to have taken the flag down. https://t.co/b4xZbyAkjl
A Satmar Jew left Israel, refusing to live as a settler, and moved to New York where he regularly attended rallies in support of the Palestinian struggle. Now Trump wants to deport him back to Israel for opposing Zionism.
https://t.co/3krKOZnSkt
The world stands united: No to war. No to genocide. No to Zionism.
Anti-Zionist Jews join the mass protest at the United Nations in NYC, declaring: War criminal Netanyahu is not welcome in New York.
The tide in is turning, and it is not stopping.
One public message after another.
Jewish New Yorkers are coming out and saying it plainly:
Not in our name. Zionism is not Judaism. Netanyahu does not represent us.
Today this message is live in Times Square.
@NYCMayor@NYCMayorsOffice@ZohranKMamdani
Source @authenttorahjew@TorahJudaism