sued<\/a> three anti-Israel organizations earlier in the month alleging that they coordinated disrupting a Dec. 3 event at the synagogue.<\/p>\nThe disruption was part of what the July 10 complaint described as a \u201ccarefully conceived and coordinated attack on Jewish Angelenos and others.\u201d<\/p>\n
The synagogue told JNS that \u201cdemonstrators blocked access to the temple, threatened guests and damaged property.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe temple\u2019s participation in this lawsuit reflects our ongoing commitment to maintaining a campus that is safe, welcoming and vibrant for all who come here to worship, learn, seek support and serve the greater community,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the firm Covington and Burling filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of the synagogue and the Louis D. Brandeis Center Coalition to Combat Antisemitism, a separate entity that includes two attendees of the December event.<\/p>\n
Four people are named as defendants in the suit, and 40 others are listed as unnamed defendants.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefendants agreed, conspired and coordinated on their plan to disrupt the symposium, including by unlawfully obstructing entrances to the temple, by intimidating symposium attendees, the temple\u2019s community members and coalition members, by staggered disruption of the symposium and by destruction of the temple\u2019s property,\u201d the suit stated.<\/p>\n
The symposium, which the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Southwest sponsored with the Jewish Federation Los Angeles and the Korean American Federation of Los Angeles, focused on improving public safety for the local Jewish and Korean communities.<\/p>\n
The suit stated that the Turtle Island Liberation Front LA, People\u2019s City Council LA and Koreatown 4 Palestine issued calls to action about the event on their respective social media accounts. (JNS sought comment from the first two but couldn\u2019t find information for the third.)<\/p>\n
A representative from Elbit Systems, an Israeli defense contractor, was slated to present on artificial intelligence at the event. Turtle Island called for its followers to protest \u201cthese genocidal war criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n
The People\u2019s City Council and Koreatown for Palestine also called to shut down the event, which the former called a \u201cZionist consulate event\u201d and the latter said was a \u201cZionist event featuring weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.\u201d<\/p>\n
The morning of the event, anti-Israel protesters outside the synagogue \u201cformed a human barricade\u201d and surrounded cars, which attendees were trying to park in the synagogue garage. They prevented up to 40 cars from entering, according to the suit.<\/p>\n
Some protesters also \u201cphysically accosted\u201d a parent of a child at one of the synagogue\u2019s schools and obstructed one of the coalition members from entering the temple and called her a \u201cZionist pig\u201d and \u201cbaby killer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The disruption followed the \u201cPCC\u2019s playbook for disrupting events\u201d by occurring several times at the symposium, the suit alleged. It began with Audrey Illeene Carroll, a Turtle Island leader listed as a defendant, and an unidentified person standing up and displaying a Palestinian flag while shouting \u201cgenocide\u201d and \u201cbaby killer.\u201d Security removed them, according to the suit.<\/p>\n
Ray Wue Corpus, one of the defendants, later threw a vase to the ground and charged at the Israeli consul general and shouted obscenities at him. Security stopped Corpus and removed him from the room, and he was later arrested on charges of vandalism, according to the suit.<\/p>\n
Quyen Ballagh, a listed defendant, shouted \u201cgenocide\u201d and \u201cbaby killers\u201d during the event. Security also removed her, and she was arrested for battery of a security guard, according to the suit.<\/p>\n
Jason Reedy, another defendant whom the suit identifies as a leader of the People\u2019s City Council and architect of the group\u2019s \u201cintimidation tactics,\u201d screamed and pounded on glass doors where the event was held. He did so while pushing a stroller with a child and with a baby strapped to his chest, the suit alleged.<\/p>\n
Reedy has a history of exploiting \u201chis children both to insulate himself from security and to disrupt proceedings,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
Due to the disruption, the synagogue had to close its social service center that provides community service, according to the suit. The suit also said that the two coalition members named as plaintiffs were scared due to the disruption, and one left the event early while the other felt comfortable departing only after police assured her that the premises were secure.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Dec. 3, 2025 attack on the temple represents a dangerous escalation in antisemitic violence against Jewish houses of worship,\u201d the suit stated. \u201cThose responsible must be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(July 28, 2026 \/ JNS) Wilshire Boulevard Temple, a Reform congregation in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-564296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}