Jerusalem – American Hit in anti-Israeli Protest Loses Eye

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    21-year old Emily Henochowicz was hit in the face with a tear gas projectile fired by an Israeli soldier during the demonstration at Qalandiya checkpoint todayJerusalem – An American woman has lost her eye during a demonstration in Jerusalem against Israel’s naval raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, a hospital official said Tuesday.

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    Emily Henochowicz, 21, of Maryland, underwent surgery after suffering the injury, said hospital spokeswoman Yael Bossem-Levy.

    Henochowicz was hit in the face by a tear gas canister shot by an Israeli border policeman, said witness Jonathan Pollak.

    He said Palestinian youths were hurling rocks, but Henochowicz didn’t participate in any violence and was standing at a distance.

    There was no immediate military comment.

    In a Facebook message to The Associated Press, Sarah Henochowicz said the family would have no comment about her sister, calling it “a private matter.”

    On her Facebook page, Emily Henochowicz’s current city is listed as Ramallah, West Bank, and her latest posting on Monday read: “Gaza on my Mind.” Her page says she is a student at Cooper Union, a college in New York, and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

    On another page, a posting said: “A message from Emily’s sister Sarah Henochowicz: This is to notify everyone concerned about my sister Emily. The surgery was successful and she is currently recuperating in Hadassah Hospital. Thank you for your kind words and support, my family and I greatly appreciate it. Her father is by her side and will bring her … home as soon as she is able to travel.'”

    A Palestinian woman reacts as she holds a cloth to the bleeding face of an American activist who was wounded during clashes with Israeli troops at the Kalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, Monday, May 31, 2010.  The clashes erupted during a protest against Israeli naval commandos on Monday storming a Gaza-bound flotilla of ships, that left at least 10 passengers dead, and dozens of activists and at least 10 Israeli soldiers wounded. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Accidents can happen even to the ones on our side. The fact that she was on “wrong side” doesn’t make this less of an accident. So sad to see innocents get caught in the quagmires.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    These left wing self hating maniacs have to realise that being mean vicous and cruel comes with a price… Just the way it is…

    Texas Eli
    Texas Eli
    13 years ago

    Why does Israel continue to let these idiots in the country?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Yes I have rachomoness on you Emily, but YOU didn’t have rachmoness on the Jewish children maimed and killed. You decided to side with your brother and sisters enemies.

    olam hafuch
    olam hafuch
    13 years ago

    if she would of been protesting in Iran…where would she be now?? She’s in Hadash hospital getting the best care…from Israel…

    bahbee
    bahbee
    13 years ago

    “they have eyes, but they see not…”

    Ouch..
    Ouch..
    13 years ago

    Man, when it rains it pours…. Israel can’t catch a break…

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Poor misguided child, playing in a grownups world.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    recuperating at Haddassah hospital – who’s paying???

    fav anony
    fav anony
    13 years ago

    im as right wing as they come – but this is really not cool

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    The name sounds jewish, I really doubt that she was just an innocent person standing at the side, from her comments on facebook it sounds like she was part of the demonstration and self hating jew, I’m not saying she was a violent or peacefull one…

    mayim
    mayim
    13 years ago

    it was just an ”Ayin Horah” she has an another eye

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    when you join the gang get prepared to face the consequences

    one eye is a small price

    Dave
    Dave
    13 years ago

    Ahhh, if only she’d have been protesting digging graves, I’m sure that there would be thousands rioting on her behalf right now…

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    I guess the lesson might be if you don’t use your eyes to SEE true …
    then you lose them……….

    Hashem yeracheim Uhleinu … LEROS MEHROH YESHUOSEINU!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

    And since Gaza is on her mind, drop her off in a hospital there.!

    Q
    Q
    13 years ago

    The eye wasn’t doing her any good anyway. She obviously didn’t use it to see straight. She thinks the ‘Paletinians’ are the victims and the Jews are at fault.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    sadly & sickly ,the worst anti-semites are jews like these. who ‘fight for fairness & equality & ‘better life’ & wtv for the arabs,’ when they dont care abt their own brethren. what kind of ‘jewish parents’,religious or not raise such children r’l?!she’s messed up!
    Israel should have visa requirements for jews who want to ‘travel or live’ on the arab side. let them transfer her to an ‘arab country ‘ and hospital.what do the arabs do to their own ppl?!Let them ‘help’ to improve the relations btwn arab countries for their so called ‘brethern’ . they couldnt give a hoot abt their own!
    Yesh din v’yesh dayan – this happened , but Hashem caused it, unfortunatly we were the messengers ,better had it been the other side , like if she got caught up in a messed up bombing or the like , the arabs usual.you get what u deserve.If this doesn’t wake her up that she’s on the wrong side, nothing will!

    lawrence yid
    lawrence yid
    13 years ago

    Even if the israelis were wrong boarding the ship, etc., which they were not, those self hating leftwing jews are wrong to protest against the medina, and hashem will pay them back in kind as wee see here. Mida kneged Mida

    Smokey
    Smokey
    13 years ago

    For those who are gloating over this young woman’s loss of an eye, would you, personally, have exacted such harsh judgment on her if you had had the chance? Who amongst us , does not know, or is not related to, someone who suffers from some such similar misguided instincts against her own people?

    blackandwhite
    blackandwhite
    13 years ago

    The photo speaks quite loudly, despite all the politics of the moment -if that were possible. Of course this is a photo-op for the Palestinian woman to display an exxagerated nurturing moment -and for a supposed Jew nonetheless, but it does inspire as to what life could be -especially if there was no political motive in the scene -just legitimate individual and cultural differences between strangers addressed with respect. If only.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    The story isn’t true. Not a single eye witness.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Even the most passionately pro-israeli commentators are asking why EY didn’t anticipate the scenario where they would have to deal with agressive resistance by these misguided peace activists, why they thought a dozen or so commandos could control a ship with 600 passengers, why they didn’t use one of several options for disabling these vessels in the open seas so they would have to be towed back to their homoe ports etc. I’m totally in support of the embargo but this will turn into a PR nightmare that will cost EY much more than they ever would have gained from stopping these ships.

    wrong side
    wrong side
    13 years ago

    Hey lady u stand on the wrong side ur gonna get hurt. And if it comes out in the press that ur an american that was hurt than u should have been at least siding with israel not with those animals in gaza so the truth is. You chose to see what you wanted now ur getting paid back through the eyes. If u don’t change ur views may u lose another eye.

    Q
    Q
    13 years ago

    Protesting with the enemy. I guess she’ll always be shortsighted now.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    עינים להם ולא יראו…. how tragic. sorry she lost her eye but the real tragedy is how distorted and perverted her beliefs are.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    She deserved it.

    Loshon Hora
    Loshon Hora
    13 years ago

    Same happened to Moshe Hirsch he lost an eye or at least the sight of one eye.
    Ayin Tachas Ayin.
    Atleast she is out of Ramaleh, B4 marrying a … & then making another Achmed Ben Emily for Yad L’achim.
    Who knows how many Arab men will miss her now?

    Blogspot
    Blogspot
    13 years ago

    thirstypixels is her blog follow the blogs she follows, she probably knows Hebrew, but she is either Neturei Karta or leftwing, BTW they are no different.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    While I do not gloat over the loss of this woman’s eye, i have to note there are considerably less posts when rabid, left wing, self hating, Jews demonstrate, then when the ultra orthodox demonstrate. I can only assume that that is because those who post against the ultra orthodox find some measure of justification for the left wingers whose belief system is obviously close to their own hearts as opposed to when the ultra orthodox demonstrate for Torah principals that they cannot relate to.

    Dr. Clue
    Dr. Clue
    13 years ago

    I do not pity her. It is forbidden to have pity on fools and kal vachomer on mosrim.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    And Gilad Shalit has lost 4 years of his life and possibly his life.

    why?!?!
    why?!?!
    13 years ago

    So many comments. Yet not one even thinks to tread upon the reason of WHY this may have happened! Everything is straight from the one above. The girl and her eye were probably more of a voice for all of US to open OUR EYES! I would imagine that a lot of us do things with our eyes on a daily basis that are worst than her standing in the thick of a bunch of lunatics. Her neshama was already tainted. Ours are not. While I am not a prophet and G-d forbid am i trying to act like the judge of all, I do take away from this incident that it is very important that we should all be careful what we use our eyes for. If just one of us are a little more careful of what we use or eyes for than her loss was worth it.

    ChelmiTe
    ChelmiTe
    13 years ago

    These people are very good at faking injuries and lying. It wouldn’t be the first time that they lied about
    an injury. And if someone initiates a conflict do they expect that they too will not be at risk for injury. It goes both ways. They go against Israel and Maritime
    law and they play the victims. Appalling Chutzpah is
    a feature of Erev Moschiach!!

    Truth
    Truth
    13 years ago

    When a tinnukos shneisbus does something wrong, it’s not considered an aveirah. It’s a pity most people here are full of sinas chinum. She doesn’t know better and yet most people here have not the slightest bit of rachmonos. This doesn’t mean that they should let all these anarchists in to add fuel to the fire. They should all be deported. If Israel wasn’t so interested in always kissing up to the goyim, this latest fou pah wouldn’t have happened. Gaza is part of Eretz Yisroel; they had no right to give it up. If they wouldn’t have given it up, no one would be trying to bring them “humanitarian” goods. Secondly, if they had a bunch a ships breaking a naval blockade -you order them to follow you to port by loud speaker and radio; if they don’t listen and they don’t turn around, then you open fire until they comply or they are destroyed. Boarding vessels is what the Coast Guard does, not the Navy. This is what the US and every other democratic country would have done. The Israelis make themselves into a shmateh and then ask why does the world step on them. Now, because of their stupid blunder, they have made open hunting season on themselves and all Jews (due to association).

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    another judenrat kapo is down – our people safer – let us rejoice.

    iish emmes says
    iish emmes says
    13 years ago

    In the nazi camps the Kappos (who sometimes were worse than the Jews) had the alleged excuse of survival. This chloreya did it voluntarily against her own people and with whom?? People who are the leading anti-semites and the forefront of terrorism in the world. How?
    Because their Koran instructs them “to kill infidels and Jews”! That is who this oysvorf is supporting who never demonstrated at the bus terrorism in Israel.
    But we Jews also believe “binfoyl oyvecha loi tismach” That is the torah way. So we must wish her a refuah sheleimah despite what shomayim will pay her also. Everyone in the end gets what they deserve from Hashem!

    Heshy
    Heshy
    13 years ago

    We have to realize there is a vast increase of young left wing secular Jews who hail from conservative and reform backgrounds who are protesting on many college campuses throughout America on behalf of the arabs. Why? because we did not reach out to be mekarev these millions of neshomas to yiddishkeit. So they supported the likes of Obama and now activly protest for our enemies. We must not forget that the entire ship incident was midah keneged midah. The secular Israeli government beat up Jews protesting for Shabbos thats why their soldiers got beat up. The secular Israeli government unleashed a volley of hatred against charedi Jews so G-d unleashed a hatred from the entire world on them. NO SHABBOS NO PEACE.

    jj
    jj
    13 years ago

    an eye for an eye !

    David
    David
    13 years ago

    Poor Emily. Last week, she was just stupid. Now, she’s stupid and half blind.

    bucky
    bucky
    13 years ago

    She is not a tenok she nishbah. She actively supports Jew haters. She herself could easily be described as a rodef. Emily, you wanna play with the big boys, you gonna get burned. Now, does she deserve her eye shot out…no, but she was clearly placing herself in a dangerous area. Yes, she is young. She can still do Teshuvah.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    if here current city is Ramalla, Why didn’t she go threre for medical needs?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    And those who bless you, shall be blessed….And those who curse you shall be cursed.

    When the chofetz chaim heard thunder, he hasked : Voos vilt de Tattelleh in himmel? (what does the Father in Heaven want?)

    Ms Emily, when you get your eye poked out at an anti-semitic “activist” fest (despite staying at a ‘safe distance’), you should ask yourself the same question