An Atlanta area man whose Israeli Border Police officer daughter was murdered in a terrorist attack was told by a neighbor that it was acceptable that she died and was berated with antisemitic slurs, according to a heated exchange filmed by David Lubin and posted on social media last Thursday.
Lubin wrote on Facebook that the argument began when he tried to place a memorial sticker of his daughter, Sgt. Rose Lubin, who died after she was stabbed in a Jerusalem Old City terrorist attack in late 2023. The neighbors allegedly tore down a few stickers, one of which Lubin attempted to replace.
The Dunwoody neighbor called Lubin a "k***," a derogatory term for Jewish people, an action that was allegedly not uncharacteristic, as Lubin detailed that she had written the word on a pro-Palestinian yard sign 21 times.
"Are you educated enough to know what k*** means?" The neighbor asked in the video, dismissing the gravity of the word. "It means a circle, because the Jews didn't want to be associated with a cross."
She insisted that she wasn't antisemitic, because she had Jewish friends and was a Semite herself by origin of North Africa.
"You call yourself a kike, you know what you are," said the neighbor. "You are a corrupt politician with a daughter in the IDF, and she was maybe killed by friendly fire because Israeli soldiers are killing each other all the time."
She also referred to him as a "corrupt Israeli."
The neighbor said that it was "okay" that Lubin's daughter was killed because she was "an IDF soldier," and accused her of going to Israel to murder people. The other neighbor argued that she had died in combat as a soldier, thus making the loss acceptable.
"You don't even know, they kill people all the time," said the woman.
The second neighbor also defended the position by asking, "What about the Palestinians?"
Lubin said that it never said that it was okay for Palestinians to be killed, in the same manner that they derided his daughter.
"This is what antisemitism looks like in real life," Lubin wrote. "It’s exhausting. It’s scary. And it’s a reminder: Hate isn’t some faraway problem — it’s here, staring us in the face. If we turn away, it wins. If we stay silent, it grows. We must speak up, stand together, and make sure no one must face this alone."
Neighbor would say antisemitic statements 'a million times again'
Atlanta News First reported that the neighbor's name was Anna Bouyzk. The outlet spoke to Bouyzk, who said that she didn't regret what she said and would "say a million times again."
“He started calling me a Jew-hater. He started calling me names, so I called him a k***,” Bouyzk explained to Atlanta News First, arguing that Lubin had provoked her by filming her with his phone. "He was the one who called me Jew hater, and he made my blood boil. He made me very angry. I called him the first word that came to my head, what’s wrong with that?”
Lubin ran for Georgia State Senate in 2024, but failed to secure the nomination in the Democratic primary.
Judith Sudilovsky contributed to this report.