(Free Beacon) A rabbi whom pro-Hamas activists assaulted last year urged the Department of Justice on Thursday to investigate Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), alleging that officers have been ordered “not to enforce D.C. law against anti-Israel protesters.”
Anti-Israel activists assaulted Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld — leader of Washington’s Yeshivas Elimelech Jewish studies center — while he prayed outside the Israeli embassy. The protesters, who had demonstrated near the embassy since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, attempted to disrupt Herzfeld’s prayer by blasting sirens in his ear, ultimately damaging his hearing.
Herzfeld approached the MPD officers after the assault, asking why they did not intervene. The officers “told Rabbi Herzfeld that they had been instructed not to enforce the noise ordinances against Palestinian protesters who protested outside the Israel Embassy,” his letter to the Justice Department reads.
