LA mayor condemns protest outside synagogue event that featured Israeli defense firm

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The program included appearances from Gal Ben Ish, the Israel Police Attache to North America, and Goni Saar from Elbit Systems.
51% : "It featured Goni Saar from Elbit Systems and the Israel Police Attache to North America, Gal Ben Ish.
50% : Also speaking were the head of the Jewish federation's Community Security Initiative, and Sheva Cho, a Korean singer who moved to Israel in 2012.
47% : According to the Elbit website, artificial intelligence tools have played a major role in Israel's war in Gaza.
41% : An anti-Israel demonstration outside a prominent Los Angeles synagogue led to two arrests Wednesday, drawing condemnation from the city's mayor who decried the protesters' behavior as antisemitic.
37% : Elbit is one of the oldest and largest defense companies in Israel, employing some 18,000 people, and it developed the drones IDF has used heavily in its wars following the Oct. 7 attacks.
32% : The protesters hung a large banner that said "Elbit out of Los Angeles" and "Genociders not welcome," and distributed flyers that said Elbit was responsible for weapons and technology that Israel uses against Palestinian civilians and that ICE uses in the U.S. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department said officers arrested one person for battery and another for vandalism.
25% : " People's City Council Los Angeles did not return a request for comment, but pushed back against the assertion that the protest was antisemitic in posts Wednesday night on X. "The 'private event' in question was put on by the Consulate General of Israel," the organization wrote in a response to Bass' post.

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