He doesn’t suffer from Jewish self-hatred. He suffers from, among other things, a brain tumor, as well as God knows what else. http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/23/middleeast/israeli-american-teen-arrested-jcc-bomb-threats/
I see no reason for this to be treated as anything other than a simple crime, with the basic rules applied governing intent. If he was capable of forming the intent to do the bad thing he did, he should be punished.
The one thing it was NOT is a hate crime, and in particular it was not a crime committed by white supremacists, or any other unicorns whose existence is constantly dinned into our ears by the MSM and the left (but I repeat myself) and blamed on Donald Trump, Steve Bannon or anyone else whom the left happens to disagree with.
President Trump said weeks ago that these attacks were perhaps a hoax, and he was denounced as a lunatic and a hatemonger for doing so. (Of course, he’s denounced as a lunatic and a hate monger every single day, no matter what he says, so what else is new.) Now it turns out he was, again, correct.
One thing that troubles me about this entire sorry episode and about the way it’s been treated, and used, is that anti-Semitism is actually a serious problem. By far and away, the most religiously-oriented attacks, in the US and everywhere else, are against Jews, as the FBI statistics on crime show year in and year out. Having to fight over whether these incidents are a function of Trump’s election, or his existence, is a distraction from a serious problem. Maybe, just maybe, that’s what the left intends.
Muslims are already whining “if it was a Muslim doing it” blah blah blah, even tho of course, as always, they forget that for every one of this guy, there’s 1000x Mooselimbs doing evil, and more dangerous things.
President Trump said weeks ago that these attacks were perhaps a hoax, and he was denounced as a lunatic and a hatemonger for doing so. (Of course, he’s denounced as a lunatic and a hate monger every single day, no matter what he says, so what else is new.) Now it turns out he was, again, correct.
I said that he was correct that some were hoaxes.
One thing that troubles me about this entire sorry episode and about the way it’s been treated, and used, is that anti-Semitism is actually a serious problem. By far and away, the most religiously-oriented attacks, in the US and everywhere else, are against Jews, as the FBI statistics on crime show year in and year out. Having to fight over whether these incidents are a function of Trump’s election, or his existence, is a distraction from a serious problem. Maybe, just maybe, that’s what the left intends.
Sadly, you are correct.