When gangsters didn't let them harm the Jews
Since the start of the war, New York City has become a focal point for pro-Palestinian protests. What began with the tearing down of hostage posters, escalated into large demonstrations with public expressions of support for Hamas. I just wanted you to know that this happened once in New York City, but with Nazis instead of Hamas and Jewish gangsters getting involved. In short, that's the story.
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In 1938, Jewish-American judge Nathan David Perlman from New York and Rabbi Steven Samuel Wise contacted Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky and askקג for a favor.
To sic his gangsters on the meetings and rallies of the German-American Bund, a Nazi organization that operated in the United States with covert support from the German government.
Lansky, like any gangster, offered to take it one step further and kill them, but Perlman and Wise insisted. "Do anything you like to them, just don't kill them”. And so it happened, Lansky sent his good fellas to the events and gatherings of the Nazi sympathizers and beat the living daylights out of them.
Now you're probably wondering why an American judge and a rabbi turned to Jewish gangsters for help. It turns out that during that time, those pro-Nazi organizations enjoyed the protection of the First Amendment to the Constitution, and basically, they couldn't be touched under the guise of freedom of speech. They even presented themselves as pro-American organizations coming to make America great. Interesting, sounds familiar to me...
Years later, Lansky told a story about one such incident to journalist Uri Dan. "We attacked them in a hall filled with swastikas and threw them out the windows. We wanted to show them that Jews would not always sit back and accept insults."
Legend has it that it was successful, and the Nazis, thanks to Lansky's connections, disappeared from the New York landscape. Why am I telling you this now, when there are massive demonstrations in the Big Apple supporting Hamas?
No reason...