{"id":2704118,"date":"2026-11-12T15:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T20:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-rabb-refuses-to-condemn-antisemitic-boycott-in-his-district-attacks-awful-things-from-counterprotesters\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T15:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T20:13:53","slug":"chris-rabb-refuses-to-condemn-antisemitic-boycott-in-his-district-attacks-awful-things-from-counterprotesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-rabb-refuses-to-condemn-antisemitic-boycott-in-his-district-attacks-awful-things-from-counterprotesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Rabb Refuses To Condemn Antisemitic Boycott in His District; Attacks \u2018Awful Things\u2019 from Counterprotesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchris-rabb-refuses-to-condemn-antisemitic-boycott-in-his-district-attacks-awful-things-from-counterprotesters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2704118&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Congressman-elect Chris Rabb refused to condemn an antisemitic &#8220;Bicycle Boycott&#8221; targeting Jewish businesses in Philadelphia, defending protesters\u2019 First Amendment rights and criticizing counterprotesters. He said some were \u201ctriggered\u201d because the ride fell on the eve of Kristallnacht\u2019s anniversary. Rabb faced strong rebukes from Jewish leaders, the governor and the mayor. Critics point to his past cooperation with boycott organizers, a cosigned letter urging release of Mumia Abu\u2011Jamal, campaigning with controversial influencer Hasan Piker, a campaign post blaming \u201cZionists\u201d for a massacre, and his platform endorsing a palestinian right of return.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><h2>Rabb added that some people were \u2018triggered\u2019 by the timing of the event, which was on the eve of the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tChris Rabb (Aaron Schwartz\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Socialist congressman-elect Chris Rabb (D., Pa.) declined in an interview Wednesday to condemn the recent antisemitic &#8220;Bicycle Boycott&#8221; protest targeting Jewish businesses in his Philadelphia district. Instead, Rabb singled out &#8220;awful things&#8221; said by counterprotesters and emphasized the free speech rights of bicycle protesters.<\/p>\n<p>He added dismissively that some people were &#8220;triggered by the timing of the bike ride,&#8221; which occurred on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht.<\/p>\n<p>Rabb has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/josh-hawley-becomes-gop-cash-cow-despite-dem-targeting\/\" title=\"Josh Hawley Becomes \u2018GOP Cash Cow\u2019 Despite Dem Targeting\">faced intense criticism<\/a> from Jewish leaders this week for failing to comment on the protests, in which organizers targeted several Jewish businesses in the City of Brotherly Love to &#8220;show these zionist business owners that we see them for the disgusting humans they are.&#8221; Gov. Josh Shapiro (D.) called the protest an attempt to &#8220;intimidate and drive Jewish businesses out of our communities.&#8221; Mayor Cherelle Parker (D.) called a protest that singled out Jews &#8220;unacceptable.&#8221; The son of late Sen. Arlen Specter (D.), who was Jewish, called Rabb a &#8220;sack of shit&#8221; for staying silent on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Rabb finally addressed the protests in an interview with CBS News&#8217;s Major Garrett, though his responses are unlikely to comfort his critics.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NCXtS4ncaiY?si=dcwnU4OEWhQk3Z5A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Asked &#8220;how comfortable&#8221; he was with protests against Jewish businesses, Rabb&#8217;s initial response was to defend the rights of the anti-Israel organizers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First things first, I respect everyone&#8217;s right to the First Amendment, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech,&#8221; said Rabb, who called for the need to &#8220;find common cause&#8221; on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.<\/p>\n<p>Then he directly criticized Jews and their allies upset over the protest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard some awful things in some of the videos from counterprotesters,&#8221; said Rabb, who did not elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>Nor did Rabb condemn the timing of the protest, which occurred on the eve of the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht, in which Nazis attacked Jewish businesses and synagogues throughout Germany and Austria, and rounded up Jewish men to send to concentration camps. He instead acknowledged, dismissively, that some people were &#8220;triggered&#8221; by the timing of the protest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also heard people who were hurting because they were triggered by the timing of the bike ride that related to boycotting of Jewish businesses in Nazi Germany,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kristallnacht, or the night of broken glass, was a pivotal moment in the Holocaust, the first time Jews were rounded up and transported, just for being Jews.<\/p>\n<p>Rabb told Garrett that he hoped to be &#8220;a convener&#8221; on the issue, and looked forward to &#8220;bringing people together.&#8221; But when asked whether he had a &#8220;specific plan&#8221; to do so regarding the protest, Rabb offered none.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even more broadly,&#8221; said Rabb.        <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no surprise that Rabb would largely defend the antisemitic event.<\/p>\n<p>He has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/revealed-chris-rabb-has-longtime-relationship-with-organizers-of-antisemitic-boycott-he-wont-condemn-joined-them-in-effort-to-free-cop-killer-mumia-abu-jamal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worked closely<\/a> in the past with two organizers of the protest, the Philadelphia Palestine Coalition and Philadelphia Black Alliance for Peace. He <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/house-candidate-backed-by-aoc-van-hollen-hails-cop-killer-mumia-abu-jamal-as-black-freedom-fighter-and-political-prisoner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cosigned a letter<\/a> in April with the two groups urging Shapiro to release Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is serving a life sentence (formerly a death sentence) for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in what is now Rabb&#8217;s district. The cosigners referred to Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther and NPR reporter, as a &#8220;Black freedom fighter&#8221; and &#8220;elderly political prisoner,&#8221; and vowed political retribution against lawmakers who opposed his release from prison.<\/p>\n<p>Rabb was a vocal opponent of Israel on the campaign trail, sometimes toeing the line between criticism of the Jewish state and outright antisemitism. He campaigned in Philadelphia with Hasan Piker, the socialist influencer who said &#8220;America deserved 9\/11&#8221; and that Israel is &#8220;way worse&#8221; than Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>In December, his campaign social media account blamed &#8220;Zionists&#8221; for the Bondi Beach massacre, in which ISIS-inspired attackers murdered 15 Australian Jews during a Hanukkah event. Rabb blamed a campaign staffer for the post.<\/p>\n<p>Rabb&#8217;s campaign website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisrabb.com\/platform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called for<\/a> a &#8220;Palestinian right of return,&#8221; a policy that would let Palestinians take Israeli land and effectively end the existence of the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabb said some were triggered by the timing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":2704119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/new-member-orientation-held-for-120th-congress-in-washington-dc-scaled-e1794509355399.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548,544],"tags":[7053,6812,87775,87776,87777],"class_list":["post-2704118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","category-the-free-beacon","tag-antisemitism","tag-boycott","tag-chrisrabb","tag-counterprotesters","tag-district-politics-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/new-member-orientation-held-for-120th-congress-in-washington-dc-scaled-e1794509355399.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2704118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704122,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704118\/revisions\/2704122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2704119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}