Is the Jewish Community in LA in Danger? | Elizabeth Barcohana

Stats out of New York, 55% of hate crimes in New York under Mamdani against the Jewish community.

I actually think it's 57% January through July.

Only 10% of the population.

I was looking at your Instagram this morning, and you posted that for the first time, you and your husband and family are talking about Would you make preparations if you actually needed to leave Los Angeles? What is the situation like on the ground for the Jewish community?

I actually got a lot of reaction to that video that I made yesterday.

I think my husband has been thinking about this for a long time, just as a practical matter.

I think that's kind of like a man's instinct is to protect his family and think a few steps ahead.

And I, every time he would bring it up with me, I wouldn't want to talk about it.

I'd be like, you know, you're crazy.

Like we're, you know, we're going to

fight.

country and I couldn't really think past that or accept that what has historically happened to Jewish communities in the diaspora could happen to here in the United States.

But then again, my grandfather grew up in Chicago and experienced anti-Semitism and there were, you know, clubs and restaurants and schools and hospitals and stuff that like Jews couldn't go to.

And over time, you know, in the last hundred years, we built our own here in the United States.

What has happened to me in the last couple of years since October 7th is an acceptance that, you know, this is part of the history of the Jewish people.

And just because we live in the United States, which, you know, we have the best chance here, it's been, you know, this is considered the golden age of being a Jew in all of in all of our history is living under freedom and relative, you know, security in the United States with the opportunities that this country has given us, you know, that's not going to happen here.

But with recent, the wave of recent elections, particularly DSA and Islamist candidates on the Democrat side, I am starting to feel like things may get worse before they get better and i am hopeful that they will get better because you know the constitution protects all of us and as long as there are americans willing to defend it um which i am one of them of course we should come out of this okay but it may get worse before that time comes And as I said in the video, you know, we have a family history of having to, you know, of religious persecution and having to leave before a revolutionary government takes power like.

In the case of my mom and my husband, they came to the United States as kids from Iran just a couple of months before the Shah was deposed and overthrown and the current Islamic regime came into power.

And I was reminded through conversations with our friends over the weekend that they were actually lucky.

You know, there are a lot of people, a lot of Jewish people who couldn't get out before the revolution happened.

I didn't think that this revolution would bring down the government or they couldn't leave for various reasons.

I know that other of my friends are doing it or have done it.

They've bought properties, you know, outside of California or outside of the United States specifically for this reason.

I do think it may get worse than better.

And I can't fight from inside a ghetto.