Open Season on Jews?

I say, it' s not 'open season' on *anyone,* where I can stand and see and say 'You gotta go through me, first.'

I say this is so in America because we are bound and determined from our founding to *make* it so.

Who's with me?

lokked for my comment here. apparently it has been edited------editing seems to have been popular with the bible too.

Link for DHS Report on growth of extremist hate groups

http://www.wnd.com/images/dhs-rightwing-extremism.pdf

THE BIG PICTURE: Earlier this year, the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) released a report on the growth of right-wing extremism, specifically addressing the development of antisemitic hate groups. The report noted that with a black president and resurgent antisemitism, we can expect
an increase in these entities.

"Rightwing Extremism: Current
Economic and Political Climate Fueling
Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment"

This CCN article gives background on the planned murder of Johanna Justin-Jinich in the campus bookstore at Wesleyan: "Before his arrest, police had been worried that Morgan may be targeting Wesleyan University and the town's Jewish residents."
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Suspect in Wesleyan slaying arrested

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut (CNN) -- The suspect in the shooting of a Wesleyan University student is in police custody, police in Meriden, Connecticut, said Thursday.
Police have arrested Stephen Morgan in the shooting death of Johanna Justin-Jinich.

Police have arrested Stephen Morgan in the shooting death of Johanna Justin-Jinich.
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A spokesman in Meriden said Stephen Morgan had been in custody there, but was transferred to police in Middletown, seven miles away. No other details were available.

An arrest warrant was issued earlier for Morgan, charging him with murder in the death of Johanna Justin-Jinich at a Middletown bookstore on Wednesday.

Justin-Jinich was shot Wednesday afternoon at the Red & Black Cafe in Broad Street Books, the campus bookstore, the university said.

She worked at the cafe, the cafe said on its Web site. It said that her killing has left employees "devastated."

Earlier Thursday, a law enforcement source told CNN that police spoke briefly to the suspect after her shooting death.

Morgan was one of several people who gathered Wednesday afternoon outside Broad Street Books after the Wesleyan junior was shot, the source said. He gave his name to investigators who spoke with him, the source said.

At that early stage of the investigation, the source said, police had no reason to suspect Morgan.

Earlier Thursday, Morgan's sister had urged him to turn himself in to "avoid any further bloodshed."

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Diana Morgan told reporters in Marblehead, Massachusetts, that her family was "shocked and sickened by the tragedy in Middletown."

She said her family did not know her brother's whereabouts, but issued a brief statement to him through the media: "Steve, turn yourself in right now to any law enforcement agency, wherever you are, to avoid any further bloodshed. We love you, we will support you in every way and we don't want anyone else to get hurt."

She did not take questions.
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Before his arrest, police had been worried that Morgan may be targeting Wesleyan University and the town's Jewish residents.

A statement from the university alleges that Morgan had written threats against "Wesleyan and/or its Jewish students" in his personal journals.

Congregation Adath Israel, Middletown's lone synagogue, canceled all activities for the next day, said its president, Eliot Meadow.

He said police told him that they do not think Morgan is part of a larger anti-Semitic organization.

About 200 families attend the synagogue, Meadow said, and he added that Wesleyan, a private university with about 3,000 students, has a substantial Jewish population.

While Justin-Jinich was a student at Wesleyan and was Jewish, according to the Middletown mayor, there was another connection between her and her alleged killer, authorities said. Video Watch how suspect and victim knew each other »

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In July 2007, the young woman filed a harassment complaint against Morgan while the two were taking the same six-week summer course at New York University, school spokesman John Beckman told CNN.

The complaint, in which Justin-Jinich said she was receiving harassing e-mails and phone calls from Morgan, was filed with the university's public safety department toward the end of the course, Beckman said.

The public safety department brought in the New York Police Department and after conversations with Morgan and Justin-Jinich, the young woman declined to follow up or press charges, Beckman said.

Beckman said the two were not living in the same student residence house during the course. Additional details were not immediately available.
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Another law enforcement source also told CNN that in an excerpt from one of the e-mails sent to Justin-Jinich, Morgan wrote, "You're going to have a lot more problems down the road if you can't take any (expletive) criticism, Johanna." Video Watch the crime described as 'every parent's nightmare' »

Middletown Mayor Sebastian Giuliano said the connection between Morgan and Justin-Jinich may "go back to Colorado." No further details were available.

To all of you trying to find the "Big Picture" here (including the author):

There IS NO "Big Picture."

The perpetrators we all mentally ill, mentally defective, or at the very least mentally deficient. The fact that they targetted Jews is meaningless; they were just mimicking other mentally defective people.

So forget trying to blame the right-wing media or whatever. The only lesson that can be learned here is that mentally defective people are not very innovative.

Too many sickening things said on this thread to even address.

These attacks may not have sufficient *body count* for some to care about or not-minimize, but they are acts of right-wing terror, and part of a tone on the Right which has been getting more hateful and (just this side of) violent for quite some time.

If someone had attacked *anything* else in our nation's capital in what was a clear hate crime and deliberate act of terror, I don't think people would be minimizing it.

Never mind trying to justify the hatred.
No one says 'Christian Wall Street fatcats'... who cares if some are Jewish? Shouldn't it be obvious that there's something else at work here?

Hate crimes and domestic terrorism are no less than an attack on America. We stand together against it, as Americans, all of us, or we don't deserve to *call* ourselves Americans.

How about open season on people like Dr. Tiller too? I find it ironic that the GOP trashed Homeland Securities for its report on the rise of right wing white extremist groups, and now we have several incidents such as yesterday's, as well as the killing of a doctor and of police officers.

Of course, there's no way the GOP would have complained about the report in hopes of gaining political advantage. Not the GOP! And if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.

The problem with this article is that it's another attempt at the "Jews as victims forever" storyline. This same storyline is often used by the state of Israel to justify a persistent refusal to settle the borders with a Palestinian state and afford Palestinians equal rights. All the time in Israel, it is "remember the Holocaust, remember the Holocaust." This is then also used by Israel to justify her need to have an arsenal of nuclear bombs and American supplied F-16's. Now, I think it is this politicization of the Holocaust that is problematic. The Jews of WWII need to be honored and remembered, the event was a horrific catastrophe. But, modern day Israel should not disgrace the memories of those who have died by being overtly militarily aggressive or refusing to settle with the Palestinians. That's just plain wrong.

"And American anti-Semitism remains substantially weaker than its counterparts in Europe and the Arab world." To me, as a European, the three incidents you refer to are absolutely shocking. There was an apparently anti-semitic murder in France 3 years ago which caused outrage across Europe, but 3 incidents in a month? - are we really more anti-semitic, or do you mean "more critical of Israel" which is an entirely different matter?

Ironically, the play that was scheduled to be performed last night was "Anne and Medgar", which was a conversation between Holocaust victim Anne Frank and racism victim Medgar Evers. The point of the play is that hatred kills, and we need to take steps to eradicate it.

As far as I've heard, the security guard was proud to work at the Holocaust Museum, loved his job, and all of the guards were extremely well trained in case someting like this ever happened. Johns was a hero, and he deserves to be honored as one.

"A season for killing jews!!!!! three incidents against jews in one month!!!!!!"

But no mention of jews murdering Palestinians and throwing them out of their ancestrol homeland,Palestine, for the past 732 rpt 732 months (61 years)including most recently in Gaza-where the "victimized jews" murdered or maimed over seven thousand Palestinians.

Three isolated incidents against jews in one month VS thousands upon thousands of jewish attacks on Palestinians for 61 years.

The era of the jews playing the victimized is over for good.

"typical Jewish paranoia"??? Although i am well familiar with the phenomena (and especially the version exploited by the right wing) i must repeat the adage "it's not paranoia if someone really is out to get you".

Any person who is so filled with hate as to kill innocents does not deserve affiliation with any religion.

This modern day thugee (root of the word thug, worshiper in the Kali Cult) acted in the vicious and violent manner of the most unreconstructed heathen, not like a follower of any major religion.

Open season on Jews? That's quite a lot of hyperbole, don't you think? As if we all can go down to the local sporting goods store and get our seasonal Jew permit? It just makes you sound ridiculous.
Yes, there are people who hate Jews for being Jews. But there are also those who hate Muslims and Catholics and Hindus, and every race gender and and ethnicity and sexual orientation. The Jews don't own a monopoly on hatred.

The writer Sarna misses that lots and lots of gentile whites, Asians, hispanic, and innocent black youth are killed every week by black thugs without a "open season" being declared by media hypers.
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theman_in_black wrote: "This Holocaust Museum is a sacred place."
No, it's there to put us on a guilt trip and gin up blind support for Israel. A museum to slavery or the Native Americans should be there, not to something that America had nothing to do with.

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There is something to be said for that. 40 years after WWII, the Jews led a big drive to crank out hundreds of "Holocaust movies", and to attempt to create "The Holocaust" as the central most important thing about WWII...it was All About the Jews.
And how support of anything Israel wants must be given - lest America forget "Never Again!!".
Along the way though, no great body of media was created to remind us "Never Again!" when it came to more disposable humans like the Armenians, Congolese, Sudanese, East Timoreans, the sacrifice in the Soviet Union of 23 million in WWII, the 13-17 million Chinese killed by Japs, the Cambodian genocide. And most tellingly, the 35-45 million butchered in the Soviet and Chinese Democides. (A process started with the Red Terror the Jewish Bolsheviks played a major role in creating and carrying out).

For fun, ask a US schoolkid how many Jews were slaughtered in WWII. They all know the answer to that. Then ask them how many American casualties happened - almost none know. Nor do they have the slightest idea of how many Polish Catholics were lost, Italians, British Empire subjects. Or Soviets. Or how many Germans were killed in retaliation in the East after the war was over. Or how many Japs we killed.

Or for that matter, how many casualties the US had in the Civil War, WWI, Korea.

But the Jews ensured those American students know how many European Jews were killed by European peoples - from the Baltics to the Balkans.

The "Holocaust Museum" as propaganda movement really got strong in the 90s. It was seen as an expression of clout and influence for Jews to get regions of countries, national gov't, and cities here and in Europe to guilt-trip their way into establishing Holocaust exhibits at museums, Holocaust studies at universities, Holocaust lawsuit awareness programs, entire museaums devoted to the democide of the "worthiest" victims Ever.....and add in to all those programs that Support of Israel is central and what it wants critical..."Lest it happen all over, again"!

I don't think so. My family: once Unitarian, I'm not religious and my wife, once Catholic; my sister married an Armenian man; my brother married a Jewish woman. We're a family! Love all the kids! Promising future for all.

There is far too much hate in this world and articles such as this sometimes stirs up this hate. Almost every other comment posted had hate, racism, or some other -ism attached to it. Example:

These discussions are on Jews, Blacks, Whites, Democrats, Republicans, Right-Wingers, Liberals, Homosexuals, Christians, and Muslims. Not about how we all, together can cure this disease call hate. Most of it points fingers at one or more of these groups and feels the other should not exist and blame the other for the hate, or the state of the country and world, the state of economy, and the crime that is so interwoven into this society.

How pathetic…who cares who you are, what you are or who or what you believe in. What’s important is that whoever you are or whatever you believe in does not bring or do harm to another, especially children. Eliminate harm of any kind toward anyone, regardless. Just be happy who you are and be proud of who you are without hurting or harming others.

JUST ENJOY YOUR LIFE!

This incident could have been averted, if our existing gun control rules were properly enforced. I assume that Von Brunn served time in a federal prison on a felony conviction and therefore was ineligible to have guns.

Discussion of this illness is good but it’s only because it is viewed as an attack on Jews that gets this attention. This is what makes this so, so, so sad…!!!

The headlines should have read "Its open season on Blacks and Jews,"
Again it shows the lack of respect or concern for the Black Man. But papers don’t sell if a Black was murdered because the media and news moguls don't care about the Black Man. That was a Black Man that lost his life, but the talk is on Jews. This killer also stated that he hated Blacks as well. Could it be possible that he shot the Officer because he was Black? Yes, it very well could be, but the focus is on Jews (who was not attacked, only the museum visitors and officers) and not the fact that the only person that died was a Black Man. Attacks of any kind, on anyone should never take place especially if motivated by hate. Though, homosexuality is wrong (according to the Bible) they too should not be attacked because of what they are or who they are. Like all other times; when a Black Man is shot there is no real concern, usually it's not addressed. It is either he is instantly assumed guilty and written off or if the victim was Black not much discussion or little coverage.

It's not only open season on Jews but open season on Blacks as well; this has been the case for hundreds of years...

WILL THERE EVER BE REAL PEACE, FREEDOM, AND EQUALITY IN THIS LIFE…?

I don't think that three incidents against Jews constitutes a pogrom. There's nothing that the Republican Party would like more than to stir up fear and to pry constituencies away from their historic ties to the Democratic Party.

It clear this was a long-time lunatic with fringe views on everything. The problem maybe, which the writer seems to suggest or hope against, is that this could turn into a new wave of anti-semitism. A few incidents such as these, may unfortunately embolden closet anti-semites and xenophobes.

The danger is somewhat real and vigilance is required.

djfeiger wrote: "The Palestinians have been created as a weapon against Israel."

Jewish claims on Palestine are a lie. Jewish claims of racial superiority are a lie. Jewish claims that the entire world bears the guilt of the alleged Nazi genocide of the Jews is a lie. Jewish claims that Palestine was empty before the Jews came is a lie. Jewish claims that Israel didn't steal the Palestinians lands are lies. Jewish claims that Israel didn't use mass terror to ethnically cleanse Palestine are lies. Jewish claims that the Arabs attacked Israel first in 1947, 1956, 1967, 1980, and 2006 are lies. Jewish claims that Israel doesn't deliberately target civilians are lies.

MKB1 wrote: "It wasn't the Jewish community that bombed the USS Cole..."

It wasn't the Arab or Muslim communities that attacked the USS Liberty, killing 34 and wounding 175.

spidermean2 wrote: "Von Brunn too is an EVOLUTIONIST who think that because of evolution, he belongs to a superior race."

Got any proof of this? He's a racist, but racism isn't evolution. I hate to break this to your pathetic excuse for a brain, but racism was around a long time before Darwin. Or is this too hard for you to understand?

theman_in_black wrote: "This Holocaust Museum is a sacred place."

No, it's there to put us on a guilt trip and gin up blind support for Israel. A museum to slavery or the Native Americans should be there, not to something that America had nothing to do with.

spidermean2 vomited forth:

"14 of the top 15 MOST DANGEROUS CITIES are ruled by the Dems. YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH STATISTICS."

4 of the 5 most dangerous states are run by Republicans:
Nevada
Lousiana
S Carolina
FL

You can't argue with Spidey because that would a brain on his part.

spidermean2 belched forth: "Hitler was a Catholic and an evolutionist." AMAZING! Spidey got ONE thing right. Unfortunately for Spidey, the Third Reich banned Darwin's "The Origins of Species" because it contradicted their deeply-rooted-in-christianity anti-semitism.

These ARE isolated incidents.
3 jewish attacks in a month.
How many attacks were there on blacks in the past month?
How many attacks on abortion providers?
How many attacks on hispanics?
How many attacks on muslims?
How many attacks on american military?

I tell you, there is nothing statistically significant about these 3 attacks. What is significant is the media focused on them. Who benefits from all this attention?

Sporting Goods,

Are you saying that it's the Jews' fault that this bitter, looney committed murder?!

Do you blame blacks -- and their "disproportionate" success in sports for anti-black racism? That comes more clearly at the expense of others than political influence does (because sports is a zero-sum game but politics isn't).

What about Asians at universities, who are "disproportionately" represented because of their work ethic and dedication to academics? Would you impose quotas against them? The same applies to Jews.

I hope you're not an apologist for anti-Semites and racists.

I hear that there is now a Palestinian Holocaust Museum. But, do we really need to travel to see it! We know well what happend in January this year. But, it is good that it is there. We need a balanced view. Talking about dead! Jews, or, - children of a lesser God.

telesonic,

You might find yourself to be
a quite sharp character by comparing
the motives of the which led to
the death of an African American
security guard mowed down by
one of yours - with the wishes
of a more civilized motivated
left perspective. But it fails
because most of us do not wish
to alter the Conistitution.

Rather we would be simply satisified
if the media didn't stir things up
to reach a point that the idiot
fringe feel justified by charging
into a Holocaust Musuem, guns ablaze.

The Left perspective is world's
more civilized and rational than
that of the radical right which
shares more in common with the
radical muslims of the middle-east
and are proud of it.

Von Brunn saw Jews behind every tragedy - you people see either liberals or conservatives, whoever disagrees with you. Based on all the lying rhetoric in these comments, I'd say most of you are about one life crisis away from becoming crazed shooters yourselves.

No difference. No difference at all.

"I believe the right wing per se whips up these fanatics to acts of violence, and someone needs to say that publicly."

You might just as well say the left wing whips up these fanatics by constantly trying to take away our constitutional rights in the name of "social justice."

Same degree of truth in both statements.

I suppose the shooter was upset at his tiny Social Security check vs the huge bailouts of the banks.

Here is the direct link to the
right-wing/ neo-con nutb@gs rhetoric such as:

- O'Rielly

- Limbaugh

- Beck

- Hannity

- Lynn Sammuells

etc.

The suicide note of James Von Brunn
starts off with a statement along
the lines of 'If you expect to
take my guns from me, you will
need to pry if from my hands...'
after an event such as that took
the life of an innocent security
guard.

And let's be honest, how many of
the Christian wackos taken the
hardline pro-gun stance?

No denying the source of this brutal murder.

I don't think the title of this article is appropriate. It appears way too negative so recently after this incident of violence.

Sir you are a racist. Why are jews any more important than another group. Should we not say that it is open season on whites when they are killed by black in much larger numbers than the 3-cases you cite. Again, this concept of pointing a particluar group difference or diviersity is divisive, racist and counter productive. As another commenter pointed out you need to get together with the shooter because you clearly have a lot in common.

Let's not forget the 2006 attack on a Jewish community center in Seattle by a Pakistani American, that killed one and wounded several others.

But, even more importantly, contrast the reaction to the Holocaust shooting to the murder of a US soldier, and the wounding of another, in Arkansas last week. The coverage was weak, especially after it was revealed that the admitted gunman was an African-American convert to Islam who had spent time in Yemen. The White House took three days to react publicly to that shooting.

It's not in the American interest to give taxpayer money to Israel, especially when we ourselves don't have the money (massive debt). As a Jewish person myself, it's easy to see that Jews have dissproportionate political influence. This influence comes at the expense of other groups...and gives fuel to haters like Von Brunn to take up violence.

Of course, Rev. Wright's statement was taken out of context, as usual.

If Wenneker von Brunn was influenced by Christianity in his actions, he learned his ignorance from picking and choosing which parts of the religion that fit his already limited way of thinking.

I'm pretty tired of idiots (yes idiots like a lot of you posters here) turning the actions of a few into the blanket rationale of millions of people of a single race/belief system just so you can appease your own ignorance and hatred. You people are idiots..idiots...idiots...and you sound just as bad as those people out there doing the killing.

You idiots are always ready to place the blame on people who have nothing to do with the action at hand, yet hate it when people treat you like that and the shoe is on the other foot.

Every single time you idiots type something like:

-Christians are to blame...
-Jews are to blame...
-Whites are to blame...
-Blacks are to blame....

You're chipping away at the already fragile state of race/religion/sex relations because you feel like YOU have the right to say stupid stereotypical generalizations in the face of other idiots who do the same. Yet you think you're right and they're wrong....

Let me help you....

YOU'RE ALL WRONG!

What you Idiots don't understand is that you're JUST AS BAD as the Hitlers, Mugabes, and Von Brunns of the world.. The only difference being that YOU don't have the power or influence to ACT or have others act on your stupidity..OR..you just haven't got to that point 'yet'..

Just so you know, if someone reads this or any comment string and reads your anti-Jew/Christian/whatever posts...and then goes out and commits a horrible act based on that shared ignorance...

The blood is on your hands too, Freedom of Speech or not.

Don't people get gunned down every day in the US? Why is this being blown up as a national crisis with front page coverage everywhere and pundits postulating about the rise of anti-Jewish sentiment? Are Jews a protected class of royalty, and if one of us gets a hangnail the rest of the country should go into mourning? The media response seems way out of proportion to me. Today's editorial trying to find a common thread among 3 isolated incidents is really grasping for straws.
To me the real issue is why was this guy allowed to walk the streets with a gun? This country will never know peace as long as we drown ourselves in weapons and spend half our budget on a war machine.

Sarna's writing is a pretty well thought-out short piece, provocative in a valuable way, mostly carefully worded.

I only winced when he wrote this:

"The alleged shooter was an 88- year-old white supremacist fanatic operating alone, and his only victim, in the end, was a non-Jewish security guard. Why magnify an isolated incident into an incipient pogrom?"

The killing of a non-Jew guarding a Holocaust memorial makes this no less an antisemitic event. Nor does the truth -- that the Holocaust murdered millions of non-Jews as well -- make this less of a hate crime. That anyone -- regardless of background -- would devote six years of his working life guarding a memorial against hatred and violence and be shot down makes this an irony of tragic proportions. Even if only one innocent victim dies.

The point of my rambling: the sooner everyone finds personal relevance in the mass genocide or persecution of any particular people . . . the sooner angry screeds on newspaper websites would dissipate . . . and the sooner crimes such as this one will become rarer and rarer.

Several people have said it is open season on Jews or Muslims. Some have included other groups.

As a 67 year old Gay man do I have to point out the obvious? It has been open season on me and my community my entire life! And still is! That is perpetuated not only by the extreme right but also by the so-called moderate right that continuall refuses to include sexual orientation in hate crime laws.Some on the left are also complicit in that.

And those posting here - GET OVER OUR HOMOPHOBIA! Do not tell me you do not know of the terrorism that goes on daily in our Gay neighborhoods and in our schools! Gay and Lesbian children and youth are bullied and terrorized daily and nothing is done about it. Teachers and administrators turn their backs on the problem.

And yet none of you posting here chose to mention those acts of terrorism.

That IS homophobia! Wake up!

Prof. Sarna uses the reprehensible action of a demented 88 year old to fan the flames of Jewish paranoia. The man was an avowed racist who wanted to deport all 'nonwhites' which included the Jews. His victim is a black man who is almost forgotten in the wake of the larger anti-semitic concerns.

Another subtext is the statement using the phrase 'them jews' by Rev. Wright and the indictment of four black muslims in New York for allegedly plotting to blow up two synagogues.

Racial slurs and ethnic tensions are a fact of life in a multi-ethnic open society and every ethnic group tend to use stereotypes and sometimes extreme language. One needs to read some of the trash put out by the muslim-baiting, ultra orthodox Jews in parts of New York. The Jewish segment of the population draws more attention because of their predominant position in all critical sectors of society. The event gets more attention than it deserves.

This article is a good example of overstating ones case. The shooting of a black guard in the Holocaust museum and the indictment of four barely functional black men, encouraged and supplied by a dubious government informant, does not rise to the level of a grand antisemitic conspiracy. When responsible people like the professor wave their antisemitic red flags they are doing injustice to their own concerns.

The guy that got killed wasn't Jewish. How is this open season on Jews???

The event is sure getting enough media attention. Oddly enough, it seems to be getting more attention than the attacks in Gaza in December received in any single day, and 1400 people were killed in that event.

At the time, I thought that another wing should be opened at the Holocaust museum for the 1400 Palestinian victims. Instead, they'll probably put a few exhibits for this security guard.

It just seems ironic, that's all.

TO MKB1:
Wow!!!!!You and the shooter at the National Holocaust Museum should do lunch as soon as he gets out of the hospital and feels like accepting visitors because you two share much more than you realize.

I wonder how many of these anti-semitic lunatics claim to be Christians?
I have never understood how someone can be Christian and hate Jews, of course I'm looking for rational behavior in mentally arrested individuals. After all, isn't their Savior, Messiah, Son of God, Prince of Peace, and King of Kings, a good Jewish boy that was a rabbi?
Perhaps an anti-Semite reader can explain how your God is a Jew but you hate them. I am not good in understanding such complete and total hypocrisy.

Professor Sarna, I'm concerned that you are choosing to forget that the shooter's rants were not soley to Jews; and for your article to ignore that an African-American, a Black American male was first target of this coward's plan for a "death by cop" exit might allow (if not inadvertently encourage) one to think that where the death occurred was more important than the person who had died. I'm not saying or implying that this is true. What I suspect is that the shooter had been in the museum before -to 'case it out'; this may be why Johns was, literally, the easy target and unable to respond as quickly as he had been trained. Yet, here is another question: why wasn't the sight of this elderly man, with a 100-year old rifle- OUTSIDE the museum not a flag of concern?

By anti-semite, I am sure you mean a person who does not like any of the semitic peoples. After all if you meant just a hatred of jews, I am sure you would say that.

read any article or column about Israel and it's full of lies, false history, irrational accusations and the media has painted Israel a criminal for defending itself and child murderer's victims. Obama in Cairo accepted the arab lie about Palestine. That lie wasn't even created when the Rev. Doctor Martin Luther King was assassinated He was a vigorous supporter of Israel. In 1968 Palestine was Israel within the 1948 armistice lines. The West bank and East Jerusalem were m Jordan and the PLO claimed no sovereignty over them in their 1964 Charter.
The Palestinians have been created as a weapon against Israel. Ex Pres. Carter is good friends with terrorists who use Nazi publications to preach the extermination of the Jews. That's how hate has been promoted by Arabs and accepted in Academia and the Media.

POSTED BY: ABUNAWAS | JUNE 11, 2009 9:30 AM It has been OPEN SEASON ON MUSLIMS for 8 years now....
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Although you say that those who follow islam and muslims are peace loving people, the Jewish community did not fly two planes in the TT, or into the Pentagon or toward the White House. It wasn't the Jewish community that bombed the USS Cole, or the TT in 1993. - need I go on?

Perhaps there is a group of people that follow islam that are peace loving, however and unfortunately these people do little to speak up against radical terrorism. If you don't speak up against bad behavior (to put it mildly), you are no better.

duckie86 wrote: "[...]so if this guy walks into the Natural History Museum and shoot a dinosaur, does that make him a anti-stoneager? Lone Wolf people, with a sick sense of morals."

If he had a 20 year history of writing about hating dinosaurs and a web site spouting hate about dinosaurs, then yes. But his target fits pretty well with his self-defined hatred. If you think its a coincidence its a pretty amazing one.

Anyone who is on the blogisphere knows that the trend of anti-semitic filth that is being said on it is on the rise. I nave noted that this seemingly hatred of Jews is related to the Palestinian issue and taught in our schools. The Palestinians are portrayed as being beaten down by Israel who gave them back Gaza only to have rockets fired from there on Israel. Instead of spending their monies to build an economic sustainable country, Hezbollah has used the money for attaining arms and rockets to launch at Israel. Not one penny has been spent for a school or anything to better the lives of the people living in Gaza. The Muslims will not be satisfied until Israel is wiped off the face of the earth and that is a fact! People better wake up. It is Israel today and the world tomorrow!

This is a new day in America. America decided to try something new when it elected Obama president. In this new era it is imperative that we help each other advance as a society. We must all come to the aid of our fellow Jewish citizens and any citizen that is singled out because of their race, ethnicity or religion. We must confront those whose sole purpose is the prevention of the advancement of America based on hatred.

I vow to expose anyone whose intent is the destruction of our citizens because they disagree with their race, ethnicity or religion. Together we can face down these violent bullies.

spidermean2 wrote: "That's funny coz it [evolution] can't even stand my simplest method of inquiry."

Maybe that is because none of your inquiry methods is based on science or truth.

spidermean2 wrote: "Would you please tell me what is the ALGORITHM of making a hair?"

An algorithm for hair? Do you think hair is made mathematically?

spidermean2 wrote: "And why is it that upto now, your top evolutionsit Mr Venter is still bald?"

The poor man has lost his stem cells for hair, or did you not know how hair was made in the human scalp? Did you bother to read anything about it?

spidermean2 wrote: "I thought you guys have cracked the secrets of human origins so why not start with human hairs."

Human origins are not a secret. The evidence for human evolution is overwhelming to anyone who does not ignore it. You can see the evidence with your own eyes after all, or are they not to be trusted if they disagree with the bible?

spidermean2 wrote: "Next will be the algorithm of the eyesight. Next will be the algorithm of smell. And a thousand more..."

All have their evolution documented in the fossil and DNA records. Where is your evidence to counter the multitude of evidence for evolution and evolutionary theory?

spidermean2 wrote: "and I can't wait to see a scientific reply without the usual magic words, "natural or artificial selection"."

Those are not magic words. Artificial selection is known and understood by even the least educated animal breeder. Natural selection is a theory that has been tested and shown to explain the fossils and DNA differences and similarities consistently for over 100 years. Its one of the most tested and solid of the scientific theories, even more so than the one for gravity, which I assume you do not deny exists. But the only magic words I'm aware of are in the bible, like "let there be light" and "let us make man in our image". Magic and algorithms needed.

spidermean2 wrote: "c ya later"

Ta. Maybe next time you will actually answer some questions instead of avoiding them and calling people idiots. You know avoiding questions and calling people idiots is not a good form of debate, right? Maybe not...

Sooo,

Does anyone care that Von Brunn had a list of places to hit up? Bottom line is this fruitloop probably took 95 north and got off the first exit for downtown. Just so happens that is Rte. 1, which drives you right by the museum. The Department of State and other museums were on that list, so if this guy walks into the Natural History Museum and shoot a dinosaur, does that make him a anti-stoneager? Lone Wolf people, with a sick sense of morals. Quit blaming everything else but this guys serious mental incapacity and hosed moral system.

When someone like Rev. Wright says something along the lines of "Them Jews won't let him talk to me," (meaning President Obama and his WH Aides) it says something, blatantly, about how easy it is for folks to still blame all their and the world's troubles on the Jews."

I must admit I was shocked by Rev. Wright's tone. Like Rev. Wright said and did nothing, himself, to cause the rift between him and President Obama. This man calls himself a Prescher, he is supposed to be Gods's representative, yet he doesn't think twice about blaming, "them Jews," for his troubles. Rev. Wright, preacher man, needs a preacher to teach him a thing or two I be thinking!

Bevjims wrote "it (evolution) is standing the tests and rigor of the scientific method".

That's funny coz it can't even stand my simplest method of inquiry.

Well I just scratched my head and in so doing, happened to tough my hair. I have a thousand questions concerning evolution but let's start on this one :

Would you please tell me what is the ALGORITHM of making a hair? And why is it that upto now, your top evolutionsit Mr Venter is still bald? I thought you guys have cracked the secrets of human origins so why not start with human hairs.

Next will be the algorithm of the eyesight. Next will be the algorithm of smell. And a thousand more... and I can't wait to see a scientific reply without the usual magic words, "natural or artificial selection".

idiots.

c ya later

spidermeans2 wrote: "do you mean you have not heard of several conservative christian churches burned all these years?"

Yes, I've heard about them. How many were motivated by racial or ideological hate?

spidermean2 14 of the top 15 most dangerous cities are ruled by the Dems.

Are you saying democratic leadership causes crime, or they are commiting the crimes themselves? What are you correlating? The majority of atheletes who die of heart attacks while exercising were wearing sneakers. Do sneakers cause heart attacks?

spidermean2 wrote: "The stats are everywhere. It's always the left wing EVOLUTIONISTS (that includes the school shooters) who are causing havoc."

What school shooters are you talking about?

spidermean2 wrote: "Open your eyes. The guns these right wingers hold are for self defense just in case the left wing idiots (like Tim McVeigh) attack them."

Tim McVeigh was left wing? Do you know what building he bombed and why? And I guess Brunn took his guns to the Holocaust Museum so he could protect himself from that left wing security guard. One has to wonder how anyone can spin and invent so much.

Like Tim McVeigh who said that "science is my religion", Von Brunn too is an EVOLUTIONIST who think that because of evolution, he belongs to a superior race.

Almost all left wingnuts are atheist evolutionist so stop tagging Von Brunn as a creation of the religious right wing coz the guy clearly belongs to your side.

Open your eyes.

spidermean2 wrote: "Bevjims, it only takes a few people to conspire and the rest who follow their lead are idiots."

I'm sure Mr. Braun felt the same way.

And, if its only a few people who are promoting the lie of evolution, and it is standing the tests and rigor of the scientific method, then what other science is also just a belief promoted by a few conspirators? Meteorology? Maybe tornados are not natural but are caused by the vortexes of the thousands of airplanes in the sky each day. You realize tornados are rare on earth but frequent in the USA, right? How about Geology? Maybe oil is actually not pulled out of the ground but is made from aborted babies. That would prove its not from decaying plant material over millions of years. And if you find these conspiracies outlandish, please explain how they are different from your idea of an evolution conspiracy.

Conservatives are the unflinching supporters of Israel and the Jews.

It is the left which openly wants to see Israel destroyed, and it is the left who stokes anti-Semitism.

Obama's longtime spiritual mentor and pastor is leading the anti-Semitic charge.

pvilso24,

Allow me to explain the reasoning
for why people tag the right-wing
and otherwise conservatives for
this incident.

Whilst in the troubling times of
a new war effort in the middle-east,
it was un-patriotic to be overly
critical of President Bush. Now,
most of us knew the war in Iraq
had been a sham - yet, we had been
forced to swallow a rather unsavory
situation because Congress refused
to challenge the Right-Wingnuts.

What has this done to the fringe
radicals - like Von Brunn - ?

It has emboldened them into thinking
that they can make up any reality
they wish and act upon it.

The trigger-finger to these
radicals are the Limbaughs,
O'Riellys, Sammuells, Becks of the
airwaves, when they tell the listener
that President Barack Hussien Obama
is the doom of a beloved nation
that can not afford his taking
our country in a different direction.

The Christians are no better...
They have enraged the lunatic fringe
into believing they must be the
'last front' of ideas such as
creationism and anti-abortion
and pro-industry - all the while
denying the most basic needs of
the people. It is a contridiction
that leads to madness - the very
least social-sickness.

Where is the love for country in
the right-wing and Christian
media... it lays in HATE of a
black President and a way forward
that inspires hope for a better
future for so many that suffer.

Is that clear and simple enough?

Bevjims, it only takes a few people to conspire and the rest who follow their lead are idiots.

In your case on evolution, you are not one of the conspirators. That leaves you to belong to the idiots perhaps?

Bevjims wrote "Well, lets see, who in this country is doing the killing and who in this country are the victims? Who are the left wing killers and who are the right wing victims? "

Bevjims, do you mean you have not heard of several conservative christian churches burned all these years?

14 of the top 15 most dangerous cities are ruled by the Dems. The stats are everywhere. It's always the left wing EVOLUTIONISTS (that includes the school shooters) who are causing havoc.

Open your eyes.

The guns these right wingers hold are for self defense just in case the left wing idiots (like Tim McVeigh) attack them.

Right wing domestic terrorism is on the rise in the U.S. Anti-Semitic violence is just one facet of this movement. The flames of hatred are fanned daily by Rush and O'Reilly and the rest of the Republican party leadership.

Some white supremacy groups have used the election of President Obama, the 'darkening" of America etc. as a bully pulpit to spread hate. Hatred of the Jews is in the same mix. Sad to say, between extremists of all types, we will see more violence.

spidermean2 wrote:
>>"Bevjims "Spidey, do you believe there is a world-wide conspiracy to teach and promote evolution?"

>"To some extent, YES, coz it baffles my brain when seemingly intelligent people like Michael Bloomberg can believe in a very stupid doctrine."

How does your belief in a worldwide evolution conspiracy differ from Braun's belief in a worldwide jewish conspiracy? Both require thousands of people working in close coordination to fool and lie on a grand scale with only a few seeing through the grand deception. How does your global conspiracy differ?

According to the museum, 90% of the visitors to the holocaust museum are not jewish. Any group that openly and physically plans the anihilation of another group based on their own personal morality (whether they are anti-choice, white supremacisits, skin heads, etc.) should be labeled a terrorist and treated accordingly.

Domestic terrorism is worse than a threat from outsiders because you have to live and work with these people everyday. They aren't riding around on horseback w/ white sheets so much anymore. They are in your schools, on your jobs and on capitol hill. The likelyhood of you being killed because somebody lost their job or had their social security benefits cut is more likely than a straight alkaeda attack. Constantly trying to ignore the problem of racism and racist based economics in America will not make it go away.

Bevjims "Spidey, do you believe there is a world-wide conspiracy to teach and promote evolution? "

To some extent, YES, coz it baffles my brain when seemingly intelligent people like Michael Bloomberg can believe in a very stupid doctrine.

"... typical Jewish paranoia" ???

pvilso24 wrote: "Interesting how some posters presumably from the Left are quick to attack right-wing radio and Christian conservatives for this incident."

Well, lets see, who in this country is doing the killing and who in this country are the victims? Who are the left wing killers and who are the right wing victims? There is a definite trend that cannot be ignored. Reminds me of the days when right-wing rhetoric got the malitias all fired up, literally.

Those who promote hate and violence should be held to account. What is telling is how the "Fox Snooze" personalities are on the defensive these days, explaining why none of this is there fault. Don't see anyone on CNN trying to defend themselves.

spidermean2 wrote: "All left wingers are EVOLUTIONISTS. Why blame the right wing for the stupidity of the left wings' creation. Von Brunn thinks he belong to s SUPERIOR RACE due to EVOLUTION."

Spidey, do you believe there is a world-wide conspiracy to teach and promote evolution?

Interesting how some posters presumably from the Left are quick to attack right-wing radio and Christian conservatives for this incident.

It is amongest the Left and Muslims in general that one finds the most hostility and antisemitism to Israel and Jews in general.

Conservatives and Christians in general especially Evangelicals are overwhelmingly pro-Israel and pro-Jewish.

Need convincing ? Review the posters to any article on Jews or Israel, and the Jew-haters from the Left and Muslims outnumber the right at least a 1000 to 1. Pat Buchanan ? is a very rare bird indeed. I'm not sure he is still a Republican even.

ravitchn , Jeremiah Wright is not an evangelical. You guys should consider studying the (true and false) branches of Christianity so you can reduce posting stupid remarks.

The only victim are non-jews?

Would be very narrow minded to
think that the only victim would
be the Black security guard.

This Holocaust Museum is a sacred
place. The survivors of the holocaust
and family members of that event
must be devestated. It is the
threat that they have to live with,
it is the threat that they have
HAD to live with, that is devestating.

...and this coming from a person
that leans towards anti-zionist.

I suppose it is natural for Jews to believe that the killing of three of their number signifies something, just as multiple church burnings seem to signify something. The only thing these situations actually signify is our disturbing lack of access to mental health care. People who kill and burn down other people’s churches with premeditation are sociopaths. They’re sick. I’m not excusing them at all but I’m surprised that incidents such as these don’t cause a rise in calls for more accessible mental health care. Sociopaths aren’t Christians or Jews; they live their lives according to their own crazy rules. Blaming religions or Rush Limbaugh for stuff like this serves no purpose. Demanding better mental health care for those who need it does.

Dr. Sarna,

Perhaps, you should write a column about "Open Season on Blacks" since hate crimes against Black people are far more numerous. This man was an avowed anti-African-American, i.e. white supremacist. And he actually killed a Black security guard.

He could hardly tell who was Jewish or who was not, but he could surely tell who was Black, the security guards. As an American, it is ridiculous that a Black man is shot to death and you write an article about the murderer's anti-semitic motivations.

In the 1990's nearly 40,000 hate crimes against Blacks have been recorded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. That’s over 3,000 incidents targeting blacks per year.

Your article suggests that anti-semitism is a bigger problem than racism. Anti-semitism is a manifestation of racism, but, by far, most victims are Blacks.

Your article, and the lack of a similar for Blacks, suggests that the lives of Jewish people are more valuable than those of Blacks. The alarm should be raised and vigilance should be preserved against anti-semitism because of 3 incidents.

White supremacy, the idea that some are better than others, is the core issue, not merely anti-semitism. The headline should be "Black Man killed by White Terrorist". Yet, you have made the death of a Black man a footnote in your larger story of hatred of Jewish people.

Of course, the white terrorist could've attacked the African Holocaust Museum, that presents the horrors of the slave trade, slavery and apartheid in America, but, unsurprisingly, this does not exist in America. Perhaps, we can go to Germany and visit the one in Berlin. Oh yeah, that doesn't exist either.

-reza

Jeremiah Wright's comment that the Jews won't let O'Bama speak with him reminds us of black anti-semitism. You might think blacks would avoid racism of this sort, but the evangelical beliefs of blacks reinforces their sense of persecution at the hands of Jews. Why Jews? Because of what most of the New Testament says.

The alleged shooter was an 88- year-old white supremacist fanatic operating alone, and his only victim, in the end, was a non-Jewish security guard.
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The author seems to be relieved that the only victim was a non-jew.

The kind of anti-Jewish hatred displayed by the murderer at Wesleyan, the terrorists in New York, and the gunman at the Holocaust Museum is not new. It has been present in America for as long as Jews have been present in America.

In fact it has been present everywhere the jews have tried to live, for all of recorded history. Over the last 1700 years the jews have been expelled from 109 countries world wide. I find it hard to believe that almost everyone throughout history has hated the jews just for standing around being jews. People are usually hated for the things they do. It would seem a little self examination on their part would be in order.

All left wingers are EVOLUTIONISTS. Why blame the right wing for the stupidity of the left wings' creation.

Von Brunn thinks he belong to s SUPERIOR RACE due to EVOLUTION.

Stupidity is self destructive and right wingers don't need to hurt left wingers coz even without their help, they (left wingnuts)will self-destruct.

14 of the top 15 MOST DANGEROUS CITIES are ruled by the Dems. YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH STATISTICS.

Why the idiots continue to blame other people for their own mess is pitiful.

DGBLUES,

Very good points you have made...

Additional facts to the Unitarian
shooting; The Unitarian Universalists
had been doing an outdoor play of
'Annie' - involving children.

It is disgraceful that Congress
and the Senate haven't figured
out how to slow down the pace
of hate-speak from the media.

What amazes me more than anything
else... I have met several people
that work in the media journalist
industry - and they are greatly
paranoid by the disliking and
distrust of the public. They behave
as if they do not understand why
the listeners/readers feel the
way they do...

It is baffling, the ignorance of
such smart, yet evil minded people.

The only fitting response to this heinous incident is to extend sympathy to the family, friends and colleagues of officer Johns. Hate is perennial, and will never be completely eradicated. Our only hope is that our nation continues to be and extends the principle of rule of law. The perpetuation of this bulwark of democracy primarily depends on the selfless service of law enforcement and military personnel; they are truly the thin blue and kaki line. We need to ensure that their institutions remain as apolitical and diverse as possible. It often occurred, even in this country, that the guardians of public safety stand by and let those of their race, political persuasion, tribe, etc. assault “those people.” Justice and law enforcement must be blind. Officer Johns did his duty and paid the ultimate price; he is to be honored.

Dr. Sarna,

I wonder, given the christian/catholic limits on mind, if it might be time to approach them in a different way, perhaps, more on their own terms, terms they can understand?

Hitler was a Catholic and an evolutionist. You can't be a Christian and be an evolutionist. In other words, Catholicism is NOT Christianity. Von Brunn and Hitler are NOT Christians.

It will help the Jews in their way of thinking if they learn to know what is true Christianity.

Their false accusations towards Christians doesn't help their cause. Stupidity is always rewarded with destruction coz stupidity is self-destructive.

Not just Jews. Richard Poplawski killed three Pittsburgh cops because Glenn Beck told him Obama was coming after his guns. We all know about the slaying of an abortion provider. We know too that in addition to a synagogue in California, a Unitarian church was attacked because the shooter couldn't get to the hundred people Bernard Goldberg identified in his book.

The common thread isn't Judaism. It's right wing extremists being urged to violence by right wing media. The report that Janet Napolitano apologized for is true: Homeland Security identified these right wing terrorists as a threat, and I see no reason to back away from that given the fact that these actions bear it out.

The problem is, once again, spineless Democrats capitulate to these right wingers, and once again place us in peril.

Calling them what they are -- terrorists -- hurt their widdle feelings, don't'cha know, so instead of redoubling their efforts, they pulled the report and made all nicey-nice, just like they did for Iraq, for warrantless extra-Constitutional surveillance, for torture, and when they took impeachment off the table.

We need leadership that will take decisive action against these threats, not thumb-sucking incompetence as part and parcel of some bizarre political calculus.

As Olbermann asked: where's the hue and cry to waterboard these terrorists from the pro-torture right?

Your question and headline sound like something the New York Post would publish. Very tabloid-y.

We share our world with racists and anti-semites. Sometimes they get loose and hurt somebody. My only comfort is that this group of sick people seems to be getting smaller and smaller over time.

I also would like to echo the sentiment that maybe it's "open season on Muslims" if indeed there was an open season on any one group in the world today.

I think the correct analysis of the problem is that right-wing extremists in general were shocked by Obama's election, which, along with Republican loss of power, they considered to be an impossibility, and which for many of them challenged the tangible underpinnings of their assumptions of white supremacy. There is a lot of behavior going on, such as gun-buying in response to a non-existent threat of Obama banning gun ownership, which are forms of acting-out by the most delusional, and right-wing hate radio unhelpfully keeps them in a roiled state. These are conditions in which extremists will act out, though Jews are unlikely to be their only targets. We should be proactive and not let these groups fester as we did in the early '90's; these conditions call for proactive measures by law enforcement against any who declare their intention to carry out concrete acts...

The US-Iraq war was long been over. It's now between Muslim vs. Muslim in Iraq and Afghanistan. What I don't understand is why American soldiers are still there to douse the stupidity there. Let them solve their problem like they do in Pakistan.

Ravithn:

"Von Brunn probably learned his hatred of Jews from Christianity. Where else?"

Where else indeed. HIs web site has been removed, but on it was praise from Commodore Commelin for his efforts on behalf of white christians. The simple fact is that Christianity is THE source.

The German Von Brunn was probably Protestant, although the name occurs frequently among Germ. Catholics.

The trouble is with Corporate
America...

They hire sleazebags like O'Rielly
and Limbaugh and Lynn Sammuels
on siriusxm that spew hate garbage
day in and day out.

The man that committed this
henious crime wasn't some dumb
redneck from WV. He is from
Easton, MD. It is a well afluent
town of a well educated populace.

The trouble is the hate speech
towards our President during
these difficult times. The blood
drips from the TV screens and
radio broadcasts, and yes..
from the news rooms of WAPO.

All the corporate interests worked
so hard to build up President Bush
and VP Cheney... remember the
'Angler - Fishing OpEd'.

It is undeniable that the media
is the 'Source' of the death of
that poor security guard.

It has been OPEN SEASON ON MUSLIMS for 8 years now.

The US government supported by a majority of its citizens and cheerlead by most media is responsible for the death of close to 1 million Iraqis (mostly Muslims) after the invasion.

The Washington Post has published many OP-EDs that called Islam an evil region (Hirsi Ali is one of them) and demonized all Muslims.

In fact, every few days, the Washington Post will publish something that infers that Islam or Muslims have a problem.

I call on Jewish communities who know best what it feels to be a minority to stand against this on-going anti-Muslim vicious campaign led mainly by the media (average Americans did not know much about Islam).

Please set aside the Israeli-Arab conflict.

Don't wait until a Muslim holocaust is committed to speak up.

The US government could have nuked an entire Muslim country without much protests from citizens.

Wow. 3 whole incidents?! An epidemic! The sky is falling! Run for your lives!
You produce this many guns and make them so readily available in a country filled with so much stupidity and you get an ugly result. The people on the wrong end of those guns will represent every group imaginable.

One aside about religion, though: it's the leading cause of war and death for the last 7000 years. Remember that all those "holy books" were written by men who were, primarily, rulers looking to control the masses. As Marx said, Religion is the great opiate.

Von Brunn probably learned his hatred of Jews from EVOLUTION. Where else?

Evolution teaches that there must be a superior race which he thought he belongs to.

The stupidity continues and yet the irony of it all is that I think most Jews believe in EVOLUTION.

I've been saying this for quite some time already that STUPIDITY IS SELF-DESTRUCTIVE. We should be careful coz the stupid doctrines we propagate may catch up on us.

I agree that anti-semitism has been endemic to the United States since it's founding. I also agree that anti-semitism is less an ugly characteristic of America than many other nations of the world. What bothered me last night, hearing Keith Olberman talk with a Dr. Leven, about the incident, was that an inference was made that President Obama's new policy to force Israel to stop buidling settlements and outposts on the West Bank, contributed to this act. So did, the Dr. said, Obama's speeches in Cairo and Buchenwald ... his comments about the bias, hatred, and ignorance Holocaust deniers have towards Jews tweaked them, and basically set in motion these acts of violence.
Of course, only one incident has happened since his speeches. But until American Jews, and Jews across the world, as well as Israelis realize that policies designed to trim their "do-whatever-we-want-because-we-have-the-American-government-wrapped-around-our-fingers-and-that-means-we-can-blow-the-living-hell-out-of-Palestinians-because-we-will-always-get-the-best-weapons-the-U.S.-will-ALWAYS-give-us-so-we-can-ALWAYS-keep-the-Arabs-and-Muslims-at-bay-and-kill-them-at-a-nice-100:1-ratio" are for the U.S. to implement, regardless of what Israelis want, we will not make any headway in virulent anti-Israeli/Jewish hatred in the Middle East.
Somewhere in here, we need to hear Obama say: we have an unbreakable relationship with Israel. I challenge the Arab and Muslim world to foster the first Arab/Muslim nation which also will have an "unbreakable relationship" wth the U.S., and what that means. To have some realization among the 1.5 billion Arabs and Muslims that they have the same intrinsic value as human beings as the 6 million Israelis and 20 millionn world wide Jews.
To reach that 1.5 billion Arabs and Muslims who most likely hate all Jews and Israelis, we have to find a way to demonstrate we're really serious about being more even handed. When we reach that place, and when Arabs and Muslims realize that we want to treat all people in this dynamic the same, we will begin to reduce anti-semitism as a worldwide blight.
In our own country, it's clear the extreme right-wing of our political spectrum have ALWAYS produced hateful men and a few women who want to kill mean of peace, men and women of color, and men and women of several faiths, including Judaism. Rarely do left-wingers kill anyone. I hope the American Jewish community calls it for what it is: right-wingers and violent American Muslims have been responsible for killing American Jews in the last six months. Why is that? Is there not a connection between the vitriol of right-wing talk stations and figures, with the violence we've seen so far this year against Jews?
I believe the right wing per se whips up these fanatics to acts of violence, and someone needs to say that publicly.

I find it somewhat odd with all the recent stories of anti-semitism that the Washington Post has no mention of Reverend Writght's comment yesterday that "Those Jews won't let Obama talk to me". Obviously the Post does not want to bring up the good Reverend because it refelcts unfavorably on our President who sat in his church for 20 years with no objection while this kind of hatred was spewed. It it patently obvious that this President gets a pass from the media on virtually everything. I think we're starting to see what happens when nobody will tell the Emperor that he has no clothes. Maybe we need a Czar of anti-semitism?

Dr. Sarna's eloquent essay left out one thing - actually, one individual: Patrick J. Buchanan, the three-time Presidential candidate who has been spewing anti-Semitic rhetoric since at least 1977, when he opined that Adolph Hitler was "an individual of great courage."
And MSNBC - a major American media outlet - keeps this hater in a $1,000 3-piece suit on its political TV talk shows.
Worse, far too many conservatives consider Buchanan an icon on the level of Ronald Reagan. What is wrong with them?
Anti-Semitism knows no political boundaries. Let us not forget Louis Farrakhan and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, folk heroes to many on the Left.
This nonsense has to stop. Now. And a good place to start is for MSNBC to fire Buchanan. Today. Right now.

I am not sure that 3 attacks is statistically meaningful in a nation of 300 million people. I guess that's like a 1-in-100,000,000 chance; lottery ticket odds.

I think what happens is the media will take one incident and post it all over the nation for several days, leading almost to the feeling that the incident happened in every community.

How many auto deaths were there in the past month? I would bet if they made the national news, folks would ask "what's going on with drivers? Are they losing control?"

Ravitchn,

Only people who claim Christianity, yet don't truly embrace it, hate Jews. I am a Christian. As such, my Lord was a Jew. And all of the apostles whom I desire to follow were Jews. The truth in the New Testament teaches Christians to love Jews. In fact, I feel more closeness to my Jewish brothers and sisters than to most any other group.

It is sad that people hate under the guise of being Christian.

Von Brunn probably learned his hatred of Jews from Christianity. Where else?