“For half an hour, three men dressed in fatigues and armed with semi-automatic rifles stood across the street from the temple,” he wrote. “Had they tried to enter, I don’t know what I could have done to stop them, but I couldn’t take my eyes off them, either.”
"Several times, parades of Nazis passed our building, shouting, ‘There’s the synagogue!’ followed by chants of ‘Sieg Heil’ and other anti-Semitic language. Some carried flags with swastikas and other Nazi symbols,”
"Zimmerman said the threat was not only on the ground, but online too. He learned that Nazi websites had posted a call to burn the synagogue after which the community leaders took “the precautionary step of removing our Torahs, including a Holocaust scroll, from the premises.”
Zimmerman told the Jewish worshippers that it would be better if they exited the synagogue by the back entrance, “and to go in groups” to protect each other.
“This is 2017 in the United States of America,” he wrote.
CHARLOTTESVILLE POLICE REFUSED TO PROTECT SYNAGOGUE FROM NAZIS
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