Identify. Act. Deter. - Shields Of David, San Diego

Shield of David Featured in L’Chaim Magazine San Diego

The Shield of David is a non-profit organization founded by Dr. Eli Ben Moshe, an optometrist in Ocean Beach and Brian Blacher, born and raised in South Africa, in conjunction with other members of the San Diego community who believe “we are our brothers’ keepers.” The mission and goals of the organization are to increase Jewish college students’ pride in their Jewish identity and improve their safety as cases of anti-Semitism on campus increase. Click here to read the article.

Register for upcoming October Classes

Upcoming Programs in the San Diego Metro Area this October

With anti-Semitism on the rise, learn to defend yourself, your family, your community. RSVP today!

Weekly Shield of David Courses in October:

Mondays – Beth Eliyahu Torah Center;
Tuesdays – Kollel A’hvat Israel;
Wednesdays – UC San Diego and University of San Diego;
Sundays – Tzofim Israel Scouts.

Email eli@shieldofdavid18.com if you’d like to join an existing group or host a private event (15 people minimum). These courses are sponsored by Shield of David, a 501c3 non-profit charity based in San Diego.

Special Guest Speaker: Roy Peled

This weekend the Shield of David had it’s first event with a special guest Roy Peled in sunny San Diego. To all those who joined us, thank you for your participation and support. Roy was born and raised in the Golan Heights. After serving in the IDF, he joined the Ministry of Defense and was sent to several positions abroad. Roy Peled is speaker in fields of leadership, decision making and organizational management. We hope you enjoyed our (socially distanced) event as much as we did.
Never Again means Taking Action Now~ אני יהודי

Swastika Model Glider Plane Being Flown in San Diego

Shield of David fights anti-semitism! This is a glider plane model that was seen in La Jolla, San Diego last weekend. The Nazi swastika is of course a hurtful symbol of pain, so a member of Shield of David questioned the owner of the plane. The owner explained that he collects historical planes, and this is one from WWII. However, after constructive discussion, the plane owner now realizes the pain and distress that the symbol causes to the Jewish community and promises to cover it up from here on out when flying it in public. Thank you to our Shield of David member for taking a stand in a positive manner and making change happen.

For more information about the Shield of David, please visit us at shieldofdavid18.com

Shield of David Recent Rally

Our members brought powerful signs with #NeverAgain messaging and bullhorns to the event.

The Shield of David organization recently had a rally, as we are the only group that our board “allows” to answer back to Palestinians who stage themselves in front of our synagogues and scare our worshipers.

Krav Maga Class

Upcoming Events

Krav Maga/ Education Program We will be hosting our 6-week Krav Maga/Education program starting Sunday, July 12. Eash class will be 2 hours, once a week for 3 weeks, from 10am to noon. Click here to see the full schedule.

Due to Covid-19, there will be a delay in posting the upcoming class schedule.

Speaker Series: Holocaust Survivor Ben Midler

Thank you to Ben Midler for sharing his story of surviving various concentration camps and going on to higher with the Palmach for a safe land for the Jews! His story as well as his attitude are very inspirational. Check out his book, “The Life of a Child Survivor”.

COMMON MYTHS VS FACTS #18

MYTH:

Israel created the Palestinian refugee crisis.

FACT:

Since the Second World War the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has been responsible for the welfare of all refugees in the world and has assisted in their resettlement and relocation – so that nearly all of them are no longer refugees – with one exception: the Arabs from Palestine.

The Palestinian refugee crisis was created by an attack of seven Arab countries against the re-established state of Israel – a defensive war that was won by Israel. During the war, the high Arab committee encouraged Arabs in mandatory Palestine to leave their homes to which they could return following the victory over the Jewish state – a victory that never happened.

One of the greatest obstacles to peace today, and certainly the least acknowledged, is the perpetuation of the Palestinian refugee problem and the inflation of its scale by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). If the descendants of the Arab refugees from the Arab-Israeli war were treated like all other refugees, including the Jewish ones, they would not quality for refugee status because almost all of them (upward of 80%) are either citizens of a third country, such as Jordan, or they live in the places where they were born and expect to have a future such as Gaza and the West Bank.

COMMON MYTHS VS FACTS #17

MYTH:

ANTI-ZIONISM IS NOT ANTI-SEMITISM

FACT:

Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism because it singles out the only Jewish state for denunciation.

Some see anti-Zionism as a way to hide anti-Semitism.

It is possible to be a staunch critic of Zionism and not to be anti-Semitic, however the two usually go together. People who don’t like the Netanyahu government, are not anti-Zionist. That is part of the normal democratic debate. It is taken a step further to anti-Semitism/anti-Zionism when it isn’t simply Israeli policy that has to change, but it is Israel, the only Jewish state in the world, that has to go.

Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people. Many of us are critics of China’s occupation of Tibet, or Turkey’s occupation in northern Cyprus in violation of international law and putting down settlements. But none of those critiques call for the states themselves to be eliminated, but rather to change their policies. The double-standard of self-determination of one country over the Jewish state, falls under the United States State Department definition of anti-Semitism.

COMMON MYTHS VS FACTS #16

MYTH:

THE BDS MOVEMENT IS A REASONABLE RESPONSE TO ISRAEL.

FACT:

The point of a peaceful boycott movement is to harm the entity being boycotted more than harming the ones doing the boycotting. However, the BDS movement achieves the opposite outcome. BDS severely weakens the Palestinian economy and barely puts a dent in the Israeli economy.
Israel, which has a population of 9 million people, has a current GDP of about $307 billion, whereas Palestine (West Bank and Gaza), which has a total population of 4.2 million, has a current GDP of about $12 billion.
In a 2016 article, Bassam Eid, human rights activist and commentator on Palestinian domestic affairs, explained that the objectives of BDS activists abroad would actually increase economic hardships for the Palestinians in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
The BDS movement leaders and activists justify imposing hardships on the Palestinian people by claiming that freedom is somehow worth sufferage.
BDS leader Omar Barghouti, has expressed support for terrorism, promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and regularly demonizes Israel. He opposes the Jewish right to self-determination and Israel’s existence, openly calling for its destruction as a Jewish state.

COMMON MYTHS VS FACTS #15

MYTH:

Israel’s support for LBGT rights is a cover for its crimes aka Pinkwashing.

FACT:

Israel does not use the fact of any positive element to excuse so-called crimes.

The Sentencing Policies of Criminal Courts in Israel are taken seriously, and apply to all citizens.

Israel is justified in pride towards their progressive LGBT rights, comparable to other liberal democracies, while in Iran and Arab countries, gay sex is punishable by prison or death in most nations, and none of these countries protect LGBT people against discrimination…except for Israel.

The reality of Israel’s support for the LGBTQ+ minority does not “pinkwash” the large-scale “conflict” amongst Israelis and Palestinian-Arabs.

The term, “pinkwashing,” is used as a weapon of anti-Israel activists to further their agendas, and ultimately utilizing the LGBT community as a prop against Israel.

Surrounding nations, such as Syria and Iran regularly commit human rights travesties and crimes, however, Arab regimes lack the adoption of the supposed, “pinkwashing” strategy Israel is accused of using, to compensate for their own crimes.

COMMON MYTHS VS FACTS #14

MYTH:

THE CONFLICT IS A DISPUTE OVER LAND.

FACT:

The conflict has never been about land but about Arabs rejecting Jewish self-determination in their ancestral homeland.

Beginning in 1919, Grand Mufti and ally to Adolf Hitler, Haj Amin al Husseini, organized, “fedayeen,” (“one who sacrifices himself”), small groups of terrorists who were willing to die while killing Jews.

“The conflict” is often alleged to have begun with the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 or as a result of Israel’s capture in 1967 of territories occupied by Jordan. But systematic violence began in early 1920 with murderous assaults by groups of local Arabs and by Muslim nomads against Jews.

In 1921, Arab rioters attacked Jews in Jaffa and its environs. The leader behind these attacks was Haj Amin al Husseini, who assembled the violent riots over Jewish immigration.

Between 1918 and 1928, the Jewish population in “Palestine” doubled, to about 150,000. Palestinian-Arabs concern for this were initiated by Haj Amin al Husseini who in 1929 orchestrated violence and murderous acts using the Western Wall as the focal point.

The Six-Day War of 1967, in which Israel, attacked by 13 combatants, took a significant amount of land. Israel offered to return land for peace, but the Arab world’s response were the “3 No’s”: NO peace, NO negotiations, and NO recognition of Israel.