FUCK NO! This was posted in GD, with typical responses...
The Florida Douglas High School Shooting Was an Anti-Semitic Hate Crime And Nobody’s Talking About It
Yesterday, February 14th 2018, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz took an Uber to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the institution he had been expelled from a year earlier, and, according to the police report released this morning, “began shooting students that he saw in the hallways and on school grounds.” 17 are confirmed dead and 14 injured. The Florida shooting seems to be all anyone is talking about. What people fail to mention, however, is that Douglas High School is more than 40% Jewish, Cruz believed that Jews were part of a conspiracy to unseat white people from power, and the shooting was potentially an anti-Semitic hate crime.
Not only did Nikolas Cruz actively and openly hate Jews, not only does he have a history of making threats and committing acts of violence against Jewish students, but he was part of a white supremacist organization called Republic of Florida Militia that self-identifies as a “white civil rights organization” that fights for the “ultimate creation of a white ethnostate.” Nikolas was a member of the ROF and participated in one or more of their “training drills” to prepare for the possibility of an attack by people of color and Jews against white people.
“We’re not a big fan of Jews,” Republic of Florida Militia leader Jordan Jerub stated in an interview with The Daily Beast. “I think there were a lot of Jews at the school that might have been messing with him.”
Jerub’s statement is very telling. Even if Cruz was not entirely motivated by anti-Semitism (there are certainly other factors as well, including but not limited to his expulsion from Douglas), his hatred of the Jews who attended his school undoubtedly played a major role in his motivations. While there is room to question Cruz’s exact motivations, I find it troubling that such a visible connection to anti-Semitism is being overlooked as irrelevant enough to entirely exclude it from many major news articles; if a white supremacist blatantly and frequently spoke about abhorrence for any other minority and then shot up a school- even one he used to attend- that consisted mostly of members of that ethnic group, people would at least be discussing the possibility that it was a hate crime. People are not having a discussion and not taking Cruz’s anti-Semitism seriously because common anti-Semitic tropes paint Jews as powerful and privileged, which leaves room for people to ignore the fact that our long history of oppression continues to this day.
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UPDATE: Jerub, who previously claimed Cruz as a member of ROF, has backtracked and stated that his claims that he trained Cruz with ROF were a “misunderstanding” propelled by the “lying Jew media.” While many are taking his retraction at face value, I would like to point out that it is only common sense- and advice any lawyer would give- to deny training a school shooter in the art of gun violence with the explicit purpose of targeting people of color and Jews in the event that they rise up against white people. We do not know for certain whether or not Jerub’s original statement is true, but anyone would have retracted that statement regardless of truthfulness in an attempt to protect themselves from both the law and media backlash. The evidence behind this article may be marginally flimsier with rising development, but the point still stands; there is enough evidence to warrant a discussion about the possibility of the Douglas High School shooting being an anti-Semitic hate crime, but this discussion is just not happening because people do not take anti-Semitism seriously.
Anti-Semitism a joke to people! FFS, look at the comments anytime someone dares raises the idea of anti-Semitism being a possible motivating factor. Then there are those who are passive-aggressively trying to blame the ADL for reporting this initially. We are just 24 hours into this tragedy. There are WAY too many "unknowns" at this time. Of course, I remember all the people ignoring the fact the Pulse shooter was motivated by homophobia, they were all too busy trying to spin into the shooter was a secret "fag" or wringing their hands about Islamphobia to even be concerned about the
homophobia! Gun control and mental health issues/care are extremely important parts of the discussion, but to ignore other possible issues because it doesn't fit a narrative or it is the "wrong" minority target is disgusting!
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Of course, this is all a "false flag" by Jews. the "Jew media", and Israel (Mossad) to "grab all the guns"! FUCK these assholes are nothing if NOT predictable!