Shai Goldman was in Montclair, New Jersey, putting up signs for a vigil to pray for the people who are being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. 

The vigil was Sunday, Nov. 5, and had a place setting for each kidnapped person separated from their families, with their names. 

Now who could object to a prayer vigil for kidnapped people, including little kids? 

Unfortunately, Goldman found out. He took a video that you can see here on X of the interchange that he had with a woman, a video that has more than six million views. 

He detailed how the woman ripped down one of his signs off a pole, then sat right down next to the pole to have a bagel sandwich. That allowed him to have a discussion with her and ask her why she did what she did. 

 "Because it doesn't need to be there," she responded. 

Goldman asked why. But she refused to answer, instead asking that he not film her. He wanted to know why she was so reluctant to give a reason for her action when she seemed so proud about taking it down. He persisted, "What was your issue with the sign?" He asked if she had a problem with people abducted by Hamas. 

At that point, her friend starts shouting at Goldman to "f**k off" and "go away." 

The woman who just ripped down a sign for missing children told Goldman, "You're acting like a child" and asked if Goldman was "waiting all day here to bother people?" Boy, if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black there. No, lady, you are the one who is bothering people by ripping down a sign for a prayer vigil. 

Goldman then points out that while she did such a despicable thing regarding a vigil for Jews and fails to explain herself, she's obliviously eating a part of Jewish culture -- the bagel. 

A man passing by interrupts Goldman and tells him to stop bothering the people. He tells him to mind his own business and the woman claims that he isn't minding his own business. Um, lady? You're the one who pulled his sign down, and you're the one who wasn't minding her own business. Goldman just wanted an answer that he's asked for politely that you refuse to give him. 

The intervenor then dismisses what the woman did as "not a big deal" and walks off. The blonde friend continues to tell him to "f**k off." 

"What you're trying to do is to say I was doing something disrespectful," the woman says. Yes, exactly. 

The blonde then flips out and declares, "Look, buddy, I'm Jewish too. And there ain't nothing more antisemitic than Zionism." Then they walk off in a huff without ever answering the question. That response is something else, I'm not sure how you get to that twisted place. 

But it's fascinating. If they are so in the right, why can't they answer the question? 

Now, I can't know what's going on in the minds of these two, and with that answer, the blonde-haired person has some messed up thoughts. This may be the first time that they have truly been called upon to justify their actions. 

The internet weighed in. 

Greg Gutfeld joked about the bagel, "'It doesn't need to be there,' as she eats a bagel."

Even liberal comedian Michael Ian Black was a bit stupefied and called the pair out for their positions about "a vigil to honor the missing/dead." 

"Also, the fact that they're eating bagels is, objectively, hilarious," he said. 

I have a few thoughts about what some of the folks on the left may be thinking when they do things like this. When they are part of the radical left and embrace the binary of oppressed/oppressor that Bill Maher spoke about on Friday, they see themselves as fighting for something noble. They think they are standing up against the evil people and those capitalists. This is a way of giving themselves some affirmation that they're worth something because they're standing up for people. 

But these signs blow up that illusion. They make them have to face that maybe they're not on the right side, that the people they are shilling for may have been connected to horrible things. They can't have that because that messes with their very sense of themselves. So down come the signs because they don't want to have to deal with that scary thought.