‘Hate Scare’ Suspect Actually Jewish

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A rash of vandalism targeted at Jews in New York’s Brooklyn Heights neighborhood seems to have been solved with the arrest of a Bulgarian Jew. Ivan Ivanov was charged with hate crimes and weapons violations after a bizarre shooting incident.

Ivanov reportedly called police claiming that an unidentified assailant had shot him in the finger. After police were unable to find clues or witnesses, and when they found out Ivanov was wearing a teflon vest, they arrested him. Under interrogation Ivanov admitted to the September vandalism spree, and is facing hate crimes charges for those incidents. When the cops searched Ivanov’s apartment they found a sawed off shotgun and other weapons, as well as eight pipe bombs, leading to an evacuation of the apartment complex. The apartment Ivanov occupied is owned by Michael C. Clatts, an anthropologist who works on AIDS issues for the National Development and Research Institutes.

The September vandalism incidents saw fliers calling to “Kill the Jews” left around the neighborhood, and slogans and swastikas spray painted on walls and cars. These kinds of incidents follow a pattern, and immediate outrage was met with an enormous police response. The New York Police Department put twenty detectives on the case. Ivanov was one of those identified as a suspect, but perhaps because of his ethnic background he was not directly connected to the crimes until his January arrest.

In custody Ivanov claimed that he was a veteran of the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency. While Ivanov is probably just a nut, Mossad has been connected to “false flag” antisemitic incidents in the past, such as attacks on the Iraqi Jewish community in the 1950s, designed to scare them into emigrating to Israel.

In any case, supposed “hate” attacks committed by “victims” is very common, and in most cases police should first look at the “victim” as a suspect. In November a Jewish student at George Washington University admitted to pulling a swastika rash, while other incidents have had worse repercussions; infamously, Jacques Chirac, then President of France, was made to look like an idiot after a Jewish woman claimed Arabs had scrawled swastikas on her as she sheltered her baby on the notorious Paris public transit system. Chirac had gone “ballistic” on a national television speech demanding harsher hate laws and castigating dissidents. The fake “attack” was part of a wave of antisemitic hoaxes that peaked in France in 2003 and 2004, shortly after the patriot Jean Marie Le Pen destroyed the Socialist Party’s presidential hopes and went into a runoff against Chirac.

Jews, of course, are not the only hate hoaxers. The recent Jena Six case brought out a number of incidents of nooses placed by hoaxers to claim that “racism” was afoot. (more…)

Prison Break from Gaza, a Global Experiment in Planned Starvation

The unheralded news is never without compelling reports from a little place called Gaza. Compelling news because families meet with violent death every day. On January 21st, tens of thousands of Gazans, led by Hamas, staged a mass prison break into more or less friendly Egypt. Now they must return. What does Israel have planned for them, and how can they survive execution by famine?

Gazans for the first time face slow starvation; their elected leaders, Hamas, face selective execution. On January 25, three days after the great prison break in Rafah, Israel attacked the town from the air, without provocation, executing four more Hamas members.

Those few who have visited Gaza, as has this writer, have met a family bonded oriented society, with many factions and two religions, Islam and a small traditional Christian minority. They are held together by their common plight: imprisonment. I know of no other place like it.

Every major presidential candidate has traveled to Israel to pay homage and seek its blessings, but not one of them went inside Gaza. Neither did they go to China, France, or Germany to seek support in the American election; so why to Israel? Israel has more direct political clout and media coverage in Washington than any other nation. Therefore, only Israel can move to starve an entire population while Congress and the press look on. Worst of all, the most powerful sect of American “Christians,” broadly called “evangelicals,” applauds in programmed ignorance as Israel commits genocide in the name of Christian Zionism. It is among these Christians that a breakthrough must, and will come first. (more…)