I am continuing to advocate for you as I can. You may not be able to see these right now, but these are links to share for tear gas, eye injuries, stopping serious wounds from bleeding. I'll write/copy important info below.

Stopping blood loss (paraphrased from stop the bleed video):

Expose wound to see where bleeding is coming from

Use a t-shirt, cloth, or gauze to cover the wound

Use TWO HANDS, one pressed over the other, and apply DIRECT PRESSURE to the wound

Use your body weight if you need to!

If the wound is large, you can pack the wound with your cloth/gauze, then apply direct pressure as stated above.

What to do if your eye is injured by a rubber bullet or other projectile:

Don’t touch your eye.

Don’t rub your eye.

Stay upright and keep your head up.

Place a hard shield around your eye. Holding or taping a temporary eye shield, such as a paper cup or Styrofoam cup, may work in an emergency.

Do not let the shield touch the surface of the eye.

If the eye ruptures or breaks open, the eye’s contents must be saved. Keep the shield on your eye and get to an emergency room or call your ophthalmologist immediately.

If you are exposed to tear gas, take the following steps right away:

Get away from the tear-gassed area as quickly and safely as possible.

Flush your eyes with lots of clean water or eyewash (available at most pharmacies).

Remove any clothing near your face.

Seek fresh air.

Seek higher ground (tear gas is heavier than air).

Blink frequently to promote tearing.

Do not rub your eyes (rubbing might spread crystals of the chemical on the eye’s surface).

Remove your contact lenses.

Get medical help right away.

If you are exposed to pepper spray:

Don’t touch the eye area. Pepper spray is oil-based, so touching the area will spread the oil.

Blink frequently to help flush your eyes.

Flush your eyes with lots of clean water or eyewash (available at most pharmacies). Contrary to what you may have heard, milk is not recommended for flushing the eyes because it’s not sterile. A small study compared five treatments (Maalox, 2% lidocaine gel, baby shampoo, milk, water) and found no difference in pain relief.

Six Israeli tourists were attacked last week at a campsite in northern Mongolia, according to a report published by Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism.

The assailants, who carried axes and knives, were said to be a group local Kazakh Muslims who shouted “Heil Hitler” before and during the attack, which took place on Monday, July 13.

The Israeli tourists, three men and three women, were settling in for the night when the attackers arrived.

“The Israelis recognized the threat as the attackers approached, quickly packed their equipment and put on closed shoes in preparation to flee, but were attacked before they could leave,” the report said. “The attackers appeared to target the group after hearing them speak Hebrew.”

The three Israeli men, all former IDF combat soldiers, fought back to protect the group and the attackers ultimately fled.

One of the Israelis suffered a fractured jaw and was flown back to Israel for medical treatment.

The incident came just days after a similar assault in Montenegro. On July 11, more than ten young men surrounded a group of Israelis in the coastal town of Budva.

“More than 10 young men cursed at us, kicked us, and threw chairs at us,” one of the victims told KAN News.

Today the Islamic Republic of Iran publicly hanged Arvin Kheirkhah, for protesting against the government. His final words to his family: "Don't let them forget me. We stood up for the liberation of our homeland. Don't let the path we chose be silenced."

Okay, honey. But what action do you want them to take? Because you don't have to use the word "genocide" to get people to care about Palestinians or get their money to support humanitarian aid. We were doing that for years before y'all started using the word "genocide."

But claiming that Israel is intentionally butchering children and trying to wipe all Palestinians from the face of the Earth--can you guess what other kinds of actions that might invoke? I mean, if you are totally fine with telling people that Israelis are bloodthirsty monsters, and if you are also one of these ignorant people who thinks that all Israelis are Jews but STILL think you have a right to position yourself as an expert, you're basically saying that Jews are bloodthirsty monsters who like to kill children.

You think that kind of talk is going to help Palestinians? Or do you think maybe it's going to incite violence against Jews? Like every single act of blood libel before this?

Now the probability of randomly choosing 18 candidates out of such a pool without ever choosing a Jew is pretty easy to calculate:

0.6^18 = 0.0001 = 0.01%

where we take the probability to not choose a Jew (60%) to the power of the amount of people chosen (18) and the results are:

When Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center held services in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, Chann and Christina An, who lived across the street, sometimes sat on their front porch and listened to the songs.

And when the Eaton fire flattened the PJTC campus last January — and the An home, too — the synagogue helped its next-door neighbors with food donations and gift cards.

“Ever since the fire, they’ve included us like one of their members,” Chann An said.

So when a vandal earlier this week spray-painted swastikas on a mural the synagogue had painted on its only remaining wall, it felt like an attack on them, too. On Thursday, when PJTC organized a community-wide solidarity event at the site, the Ans were among many non-Jewish residents in attendance.

“They’re part of our community, and they’re always welcome, and I want them to feel that way,” said An. “And I want them to feel that all the neighbors support them.”

What typically happens when a Jewish institution is tagged — an increasingly common story these days — is a familiar chain of events: Photos are snapped and posted online; Jewish leaders and local officials issue statements; the tag is covered up and people move on.

In Altadena, all of that happened. But so did something else: The synagogue was inundated with messages of support from surrounding faith institutions and Altadena residents, according to the temple’s executive director Melissa Levy. A few of those neighbors had offered to sand down the graffiti themselves.

That kind of support has been really beautiful in the wake of all of this,” Levy said.

The Eaton fire devastated Altadena, killing 19 people and leveling cherished community institutions, including the temple’s 75-year-old campus and several other houses of worship. Dozens of congregants lost their homes in the blaze. Where PJTC’s sanctuary, chapel and religious school once stood, weeds now rise five feet off the ground.

The mural had been painted in May in response to graffiti on the same wall earlier this year. At the mural’s center was a fire poppy — a native flower known to rise from ashes — adorned with a message intended to be universal: We are all responsible for each other.

“When we look at the mural,” Christina An said, it reminds them: “We’re all going to be back.”

But this week, those inspiring words were painted over with another. Vandals painted more swastikas alongside the message: “Zionism is not welcome.” No arrests have been made in either instance, and it is unclear whether the same person was responsible for both incidents. LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger has called on the county to offer a $20,000 reward for information on the culprit.

“There’s an increased feeling of vulnerability after the fire destroyed our home,” said Rabbi Josh Ratner, the synagogue’s senior leader. “To have any stuff happen after that compounds our vulnerability.”

Rising from the ashes

The stone wall abutting Altadena Boulevard was the only one on the complex that remained fully intact after the fire. But it didn’t become a symbol until after it was vandalized earlier this year, when passersby noticed on Jan. 13 that the charred stone wall had been tagged.

That graffiti read “F— Zionism” and “RIP Renee,” the latter message an apparent reference to Renee Nicole Good, an anti-ICE protester who had been killed the previous week in Minneapolis.

In response, synagogue leadership decided to cover it with art. Working with a local group called Art Against Hate, PJTC commissioned a muralist who invited synagogue members to contribute ideas — and recruited their children to help paint it.

The mural was sectioned like stained glass, with Stars of David in the corners and a border containing the animal symbols for the tribes of Israel. A peacock adorned one side — the birds have thrived in the area for more than a century — and while the children were painting it, one approached the scene, seemingly to admire it.

“It was for Altadena as much as the synagogue, and the neighbors appreciated it,” said Judy Callahan, a longtime PJTC member. “I think looking out and seeing it — they still see this vacant lot, but it just made things cheerier.”

Coming together

Many of those neighbors — and a phalanx of local officials — were on hand Thursday to condemn the latest graffiti and watch Miriam Hellmann, the muralist, apply the final touches for a second time.

Barger spoke, as did Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo, U.S. Rep. Judy Chu and others. But just as important to the temple members in attendance were the locals who braved the scorching heat to embrace them.

After Ratner spoke, he invited the Rev. Amy Aitken to the podium. Aitken leads the First United Methodist Church of Pasadena, where PJTC has been holding their services for the last year.

After joking that most other Methodist churches don’t have a “campus rabbi” — that is, Ratner — she asked other clergy in attendance to stand up. Nearly a dozen did.

One of them was the Rev. Michael David Lewis of Altadena Community Church, who said he wanted to assure Jewish community members that he considered them family.

“When they are attacked, I want to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them,” he said. “I want to stand against the hate that was expressed here and stand against the fear that was expressed here.”

Hellmann, who is not Jewish, said every muralist knows their work might get tagged — murals tend to be in prominent places, and vandals want their message to be seen.

But this target had broader resonance than other walls, or even other synagogues. “It’s not just about the Jewish community,” Hellmann said. “It was supposed to be a symbol of hope for a lot of people.”

When Hellmann first painted the mural, she applied a layer of anti-graffiti coating that prevents spray paint from bonding to the surface. But the graffiti was not cleaned off immediately, allowing it to set.

“I’ll keep repainting it every day if I need to,” Hellmann said.

This time, she added an olive branch, that ancient symbol of peace.

“I think that it’s important for non-Jewish people to stand with the Jewish community when there’s antisemitism,” she said. “So I’m happy to be a part of it. I think it’s a beautiful religion.”

Elica Le Bon discusses the antisemitic forgery, the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", which was fabricated by Russian Tsarists to divert civil unrest away from the Tsar and towards a vulnerable ethnic minority, and later recycled by the Nazis and Arabs to incite antisemitism.

The Protocols illustrates how easily mass hysteria can be incited by antisemitic conspiracy theories, as well as how authoritarians always use antisemitism as a weapon to divide and control. For further reading: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion

They're hanging them, cutting their life short, right in front of everyone to see. Their families, their loved ones, and then a bunch of parasites that lick the ground they walk on and cheer for the death of a human being.

This regime has to go.

So why the fuck won't they? How much more do they want to take and take and take from us? How many more are they going to kill?

Long live Iran,

A hostile mob aggressively chased a group of young Israeli tourists into their hotel compound on the Greek island of Crete early Sunday morning.

The attackers shouted “F**k Israel” and “Free Palestine” as the group walked home from a party singing in Hebrew, according to reports.

The confrontation began around 4 a.m. in the coastal town of Malia after the assailants shouted the slogans.

“We yelled back at them, and there was an argument,” Raz, 17, told Channel 12. “We then got closer to the hotel, and suddenly we saw a bigger group arrive and that they had called more people over for backup.”

The mob hurled glass bottles before chasing the tourists onto the hotel grounds. The attackers searched for Israeli and Jewish guests, knocking on room doors, according to Israel’s National Center for Combating Antisemitism. One of the Israelis suffered a head injury after being shot with an air gun.

Locked inside their rooms, several of the tourists sent farewell messages to relatives in Israel as they feared for their lives, according to the center. Hotel staff tried to protect guests until police arrived, but only a single guard was stationed at the entrance.

“They had fire in their eyes,” Raz said. “There was only one guard at the entrance to the hotel, who couldn’t deal with them, and they just entered the hotel grounds and started looking for us, knocking on the rooms.”

Raz cut his vacation short and booked a flight back to Israel that same morning. “I didn’t want to stay there,” he said. “We were supposed to return in another two days, but after what happened, I personally did not want to and couldn’t stay in that place.”

Israel’s Foreign Ministry and the embassy in Athens coordinated with Greek authorities during the incident, which remains under investigation. While some local residents described the violence as a clash involving intoxicated youths, the Israeli tourists said it was a targeted antisemitic attack.

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A group of Israelis in Mexico were surrounded and harassed by a masked mob that daubed Stars of David alongside swastikas on the walls, entrance, and pavement outside a gallery where the Israelis had taken shelter. The protesters - some wearing keffiyehs - danced, played loud music, and shouted abuse at those inside, calling them "terrorists" and accusing them of "killing babies."

#شروین‌باقریان

🚨جوان معترض ۱۹ ساله ای که در ۱۸ دی ماه در میدان علیخانی اصفهان با اتهام مهاربه دستگیر شد و اکنون به اعدام محکوم شده است.

صدای او باشیم!

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#ShervinBagherian

🚨 is a 19-year-old protester who got arrested back on January 8th in Isfahan’s Alikhani Square. He was charged with moharebeh and has now been sentenced to death. We need to be his voice.

#iranprotests

#StopExecutions

علیرضا سپاهی :

#علیرضا‌سپاهی

🚨جوان معترض ۲۵ ساله در ۱۸ دی دستگیر و امروز به حکم غیر انسانی اعدام محکوم شده است!

صدای او باشیم.

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#AlirezaSepahi

🚨 A 25-year-old protester got arrested back on Jan 8th and today he was sentenced to death in an inhumane ruling! We need to be his voice.

#HumanRights

#StopExecutionsinIran

علیرضا‌رئیسی:

#علیرضا‌رئیسی

🚨معترض ۲۲ ساله ای که در میدان علیخانی اصفهان ۱۸ دی بازداشت شده بود در ۱۴ تیر به دوبار اعدام محکوم شده است. نام او را فریاد بزنید!

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#AlirezaRaeisi

🚨 A 22-year-old protester who was arrested in Alikhani Square, Isfahan, on January 8th, has been sentenced to death twice on July 5th. Shout his name!

#freeIran

#StopExecutions

قائم حسینی:

#قائم‌حسینی

🚨جوان معترض ۲۱ ساله در اصفهان روز ۱۸ دی بازداشت شد و در ۱۴ تیر دادگاه ناعادلانه ی جمهوری اسلامی او را به اعدام محکوم کرد.

#GhaemHosseini

🚨 A 21-year-old protester was arrested in Isfahan on January 8th, and on July 5th, the Islamic Republic's unfair court sentenced him to death.

#IranProtests

#Politicalprisonersareindanger

متن توییت برای اصفهانی های در خطر اعدام:

گل‌محمد محمدی:

#گل‌محمد‌محمدی

🚨مهاجر افغانستانی ۲۴ ساله ای که در ۱۸ دی ماه در میدان علیخانی اصفهان بازداشت شده بود به دوباره به حکم غیر اخلاقی و انسانی اعدام محکوم شد.

صدای او باشیم!

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#GolmohammadMohammadi

🚨 A 24-year-old Afghan refugee arrested back on January 8th in Isfahan’s Alikhani Square has been slapped with an immoral and inhumane death sentence yet again. We need to be his voice!

#freeafghanistan

#HumanRights

امیرحسین ملکی:‌

#امیر‌حسین‌ملکی

🚨معترض ۱۹ ساله ای که در میدان علیخانی اصفهان ۱۸ دی بازداشت شده بود در ۱۴ تیر به اعدام محکوم شده است. نام او را فریاد بزنید!

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#Amirhoseinmaleki

🚨 A 19-year-old protester who was arrested in Alikhani Square, Isfahan, on January 8th, has been sentenced to death twice on July 5th. Shout his name!

#freeIran

#StopExecutions

علی دشتی:

#علی‌دشتی 

🚨جوان معترض ۲۰ ساله در اصفهان روز ۱۸ دی بازداشت شد و در ۱۴ تیر دادگاه ناعادلانه ی جمهوری اسلامی او را به اعدام محکوم کرد.

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#Alidashti

🚨 A 20-year-old protester was arrested in Isfahan on January 8th, and on July 5th, the Islamic Republic's unfair court sentenced him to death.

#IranProtests

#Politicalprisonersareindanger

ابوالفضل‌ابراهیمی:

#ابوالفضل‌ابراهیمی

🚨جوان ۱۹ ساله و معترض اصفهانی روز ۱۸ دی در میدان علیخانی بازداشت شد و اکنون به حکم غیر انسانی اعدام محکوم شده است.

صدای او باشیم!

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#AbolfazlEbrahimi

🚨is a 19-year-old kid from Isfahan who got arrested at Alikhani Square back on January 8th. Now, he's been handed an inhumane death sentence. We need to be his voice!