Henry Herskovitz, founder of an anti-Israel protest group in Ann Arbor, and Donald Abdul Roberts, holding an anti-Israel flag, kick off another day of protesting outside the Beth Israel Congregation on Washtenaw Avenue on Saturday morning.Ryan J. Stanton | AnnArbor.comIt's another Saturday morning outside the Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, and for Henry Herskovitz and nearly a dozen other members of his group it's another day of protest. As they begin to set up along Washtenaw Avenue outside the synagogue, they each pick which messages they'll be carrying this day. Signs with attention-grabbing statements like "Zionism Enabled Nazism," "Israel: No Right To Exist," and "Is Ethnic Cleansing a Judaic Value?" eventually line the sidewalks as congregants make their way inside for their weekly Sabbath morning services. Other signs in the protesters' arsenal read "End Jewish Supremacism in Palestine," "Israel: Not Good for the Jews," and "Ethnic Supremacism: Wrong in Germany, Wrong in Israel." Ann Arbor resident Shirley Zempel, who waved a Palestinian flag outside the synagogue on Saturday morning, said a yearning for justice drives her to protest Israel. "I just think this is the most unjust issue there is everywhere and I think it's misunderstood a lot," she said of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Beth Israel Congregants Reflect On 10 Years Of Protests At Synagogue: 'we Certainly Didn't Ask For This'
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