Anti-Zionist Anti-Semitic Bombing Incidents From Last Week

By
Omri Ceren
– April 9, 2007Posted in: European Antisemitism, Global Antisemitism

They were probably just expressing their “legitimate criticism of Israeli policies:

The FBI on Friday offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who placed an explosive device outside a Jewish temple last week in Muskogee. The device was made of an explosive material contained in cooking oil containers and placed inside a shopping cart… Although a specific motive hasn’t been determined, the incident is being investigated as a hate crime, Bonath said.

These guys too – just your average anti-Israel activism:

Montreal police are investigating a small bomb that exploded in front of the Ben Weider Jewish Community Centre on Tuesday night. The late-night blast blackened the sidewalk in front of the Westbury St. Centre in Cote-des-Neiges, frightening several employees inside, police said. No one was injured… Investigators are not calling the fire a hate crime, although they haven’t yet dismissed the possibility, said Const. Marie-Claude Bérard.

At least the first one is being investigated as a hate crime. With the second one, gosh we just don’t know – could be any explanation, really.

And it’s not that we think that all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism, or that all anti-Semitism is tried to opposition to Israel. It’s just that the last few years’ wave of anti-Israel invective sounds like hate, feels like hate, and keeps resulting in hate crimes. So we’re beginning to think that the distinction between the two is a little bit academic. Not like good, rational academic. More like sophistic excuses for vicious anti-Semitism academic.

References:
* FBI Offers Reward In Bomb Scare
* Crude bomb targets Montreal Jewish community centre

Previously:
* Reminder: Hysterical Anti-Zionism Doesn’t Get You Off The Hook For Bigoted Anti-Semitism
* Anti-Semitism as Anti-Zionism
* Even 40 Years Ago, Anti-Zionism was Already Anti-Semitism

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