With antisemitism rising all over the world, Muslims in America are alarmed. Not because they care about the Jews who are the objects of antisemitic acts. Indeed, many of them enjoy the spectacle of their spreading distress. What worries them, however, is that some people might start to sympathize with those Jews again, and even, horribile dictu, with those apartheid colonial-settler genocidal Israelis. And that will never do.
They see what we all see: On campuses all over America, in cities all over Europe, Jews are shouted at by pro-Hamas mobs, chased down streets, had their kippahs knocked off, have mezuzahs stolen from their door jambs, find swastikas scrawled in the dead of night on synagogue walls and in college dormitories. Some Jews are knocked down and kicked repeatedly in the head, others beaten to a pulp. And some are murdered, such as Benjamin Harouni, a Jewish dentist in California murdered by Mohammed Sabah Abdulkareem, 29, a former patient. Abdulkareem has only been described as a “disgruntled former patient,” but those aware of how Muslims are taught to think of Jews, know there is a more sinister motive for that murder.
This isn’t good for Muslims. It can create sympathy for Jews. So they welcome any chance to publicize “hate crimes” against Muslims. Last November a man in Burlington, Vermont shot three Palestinian-Americans. CAIR went into action, calling it an act of Islamophobia, and the media immediately repeated that charge. More on how that shooting was misreported can be found here: “Palestinian ‘hate-crime’ hoax,” by Moshe Phillips, JNS, March 8, 2024:
The Vermont man charged with shooting three Palestinian-American college students on Nov. 25 was a defender of Hamas, The New York Times has belatedly acknowledged—and with it, the No. 1 example of an “anti-Palestinian hate crime” has completely crumbled.
For the past three months, the Times and other major news media have portrayed the incident in the city of Burlington as proof that Palestinians are victims of hate crimes in America. Whenever somebody points to the outsized number of recent antisemitic incidents, Arab advocates cite the Vermont shooting as evidence that Arabs and Muslims are just as much victims as the Jews.
Of course, the number of antisemitic incidents is many times larger than the number of anti-Muslim events, and much more severe, often involving physical violence, while many of the reported anti-Muslim events are what are called micro-aggressions.
It’s reached the point that when some universities announce they are forming a committee to investigate antisemitism, they also announce one to investigate Islamophobia—as Harvard recently did. Even the Biden administration, after unveiling its U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, then announced it is preparing a national strategy to counter Islamophobia, too.
But it turns out that Exhibit A of “anti-Palestinian hate” apparently was nothing of the sort.
As early as last December, local media in Vermont reported that the alleged shooter’s social-media accounts included pro-Hamas statements.
The major news media ignored this myth-busting news—until now. The New York Times Sunday Magazine, in its March 3 edition, included a long essay by Rozina Ali, formerly a Cairo-based journalist who now teaches [sic] adjunct at New York University. She is writing a book on “the recent history of Islamophobia in the United States.”
The entire theme of Ali’s article in the Times was why we should feel sympathy for the three 20-year-old men, one of them very seriously hurt. Fair enough. Of course, everybody should feel sympathy for any innocent person who is shot.
But deep in the article, in paragraph 30 (out of 41), the text suddenly took a strange turn. “Hate crimes are challenging to prove in court,” Ali wrote. What made this case “even more tricky” was that the alleged shooter, Jason Eaton, said nothing out loud before, during or after the shooting.”…
With regard to the Oct. 7 pogrom perpetrated by Hamas in southern Israel that killed 1,200 men, women and children, here’s what the “anti-Palestinian” Eaton wrote on X on Nov. 16: “What if someone occupied your country? Wouldn’t you fight them?”
Although Ali quoted only one of Eaton’s posts, there was at least one more in the same vein. This is what Eaton tweeted on Oct. 17 (which was quoted by the Vermont-based news agency Seven Days on Dec. 6): “The notion that Hamas is ‘evil’ for defending their state from occupation is absurd. They are owed a state. Pay up.”
That crashing sound you hear is the shattering of the myth that the Vermont shooting was Islamophobia. No wonder the police have not charged Eaton with a hate crime: his social-media accounts clearly indicate he is a supporter, not a hater, of the Palestinian Arabs. Ali and others have reported that Eaton has a long history of personal problems. That would seem to be what was behind this crime….
Jeffrey Eaton did not commit a hate crime against Palestinian-Americans. He was on their side, as his social media posts show, when he defended Hamas’ pogrom of October 7 as “defending their state from occupation” and further added that “the notion that Hamas is ‘evil’ for defending their state from occupation is absurd.” But strangely, that social media post from October 17 was ignored by the mainstream media. So was Eaton’s comment on X (formerly known as Twitter) a month later, on November 16, that was equally pro-Hamas: “If someone occupied your country, wouldn’t you fight them?”
And the media dutifully continued to report that Jeffrey Eaton had committed an anti-Muslim hate crime when he shot those three Palestinians, even though his comments on Hamas showed he supported the terror group’s atrocities on October 7, until long after Eaton’s sympathies had been reported on in the local Vermont newspapers.
The New York Times, and other media outlets that continued to report on the shooting by Jeffrey Eaton in Burlington, Vermont as an “anti-Muslim hate crime” long after his social media posts had revealed him to be a Hamas defender, have some explaining to do. But they won’t.
somehistory says
A *real* ‘inconvenient Truth.” Hide the Truth until people forget how to look for it, how to recognize it, and what to do with it if they stumble over it.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Many people remember only the initial “fake news” story.
The corrected story generally gets “lost in the mix”.
Jayell1 says
Isn’t it time that this term ‘islamophobia’ was buried? Muslims plagiarised the pseudo-defensive ‘phobia’ idea from the gay community’s ‘homophobia’ as a means of promoting their institutional evil under with a pretence of being ‘victims of misunderstanding’ – when they were obviously too stupid to realise that the reality of their primitive pseudo-sanctified savagery was too obvious to everyone with even half a brain, and in any case one has to have either a level of mental instability or intellectual deficiency to suffer a ‘phobia’; but then, these islamic idiots never seemed to have understood what they were saying when they insulted the rest of humanity in their deluded quest to promote themselves and their contrived, Dark Age drivel.
maria says
Islam and all the muslims who are islamisk animals are murderers and must be eliminated.
No muslims should be allowed to come to Israel
Israel is the best country in the world and muslims are the animals
Gene Currivan says
You clearly and concisely lay out what all civilized peoples must do in order to save ourselves. I agree. Out with them by any and all means.
Simba says
Problem with supporting Hamas or death cults is, trouble follows. Death doesn’t need many invitations to do his job.
Gene Currivan says
Switching this around a bit, no one is investigating why Eaton took a shot at these three. Is it possible this was done, illegally or not, as a result of some form of attack against Eaton? Did his fragile emotional nature become overwhelmed at being treated as a dhimmini ?
I’ve seen very clearly Islamic Supremacy on a small island in the Pacific where I worked as a teacher. The elitist, supremacist attitude was palpable with virtually all of them. Unsurprisingly, as a whole, they underperformed.
We have a knife at our throats with these beings. We need to act accordingly
Naja says
I agree with Gene. It’s time for infidels to aggressively respond to what we all see as an attempt to force us change our way of life to this sick backwards ideology.
Noah Andeark says
Cabbage Brain Biden has a problem. He needs to earn the muslim vote that he seems to be losing in some battleground states. He has no choice but to throw Jews and Israel under the bus. He’s already beginning to do that. With an assist from Capo Bernie, who wants to stop sending weapons to Israel so that the muslims can exterminate them, Jojo seems to have a real good chance of earning the terrorist vote back.