Thanks James for bring this to our attention!
Thanks James for bring this to our attention!
This torn scroll is the handwritten 3,000 year old original source of all Christian Bibles. Moreover, it serves as the basis for much of Western Civilization march on a path above ambition and power towards a more just society!
Unfortunately, a lot of folk are still teaching hatred of Jews.
That’s why it’s so important that Trump has, for the first time, a week ago, included Jews in the concept of a “people” so that Civil Rights we assume applies to all, protects Jews irrespective of how the prejudice is framed, be it religious of as an ethnic group.
Meanwhile we are getting about one such horrifying attack, after another every week.
In a similar attack in neighboring Santa Monica, because the perpetrators merely smeared feces on the scriptures and didn’t leave a written note, the police said it was therefore not a “hate crime”!
Go figure!
Asher
Stupid laws have a check-off list for what constitutes a hate crime and it might also then still depend on the sympathies of the local police themselves!They need to catch this guy. I thought an attack against any identifiable group is considered a hate crime?
James
Now, under Trumps executive order, even if it’s not bias against “religion”, just being Jewish” or having Jewish identity, it now is a hate crime.California hate crime laws.
Example: Several teenagers vandalize a Jewish temple. In addition to being charged with ordinary vandalism, they may face much more severe penalties if they were motivated by bias against the Jewish religion.
https://www.shouselaw.com/hate-crime.html
Thanks for your breakdown Asher!Now, under Trumps executive order, even if it’s not bias against “religion”, just being Jewish” or having Jewish identity, it now is a hate crime.
This to Jews is a major needed protection. Palestinian political groups are incensed as it might now limit the harassment of Jews in colleges who get attacked for anything connected with Israel or supporting Zionism. Today, even in the best colleges, while you can peacefully learn tango and Other Spanish dances, Israeli dancing is considered in some places and affront to Palestinian Rights.
A talk on “King David” in Jerusalem and “Solomon’s Temple” is considered “fraud” as “Jews were never in Israel”! The Hebrew coins dug up by archaeologists under any part of Israel are claimed to be “forgeries” by suddenly new Palestinian claims! It’s part of a delegitimization campaign.
The stronger Israeli as a free democratic society, the more “victimhood” Palestinians wrap themselves in. This is nothing passive but highly organized in almost every college thought the United States!
[Fantastically, the “Black Hebrews”, who viciously hate Jews too, and also claim that they are the true Jews and we are “imposters”!]
So Jews in colleges can find themselves running a gauntlet of bias at every stage from diverse sources. So adding the broader concept of recognizing “being Jewish” as equivalent to say, “coming from Nigeria” in ethnicity, is going to help protect the students from constant harassment now the norm in more than s few American universities, even Stanford!
Asher
James,Is the fabric of society being torn apart because of selfishness leaving behind a pile of fragile, threads?
People are naturally welcoming to the stranger and helpful to the weak!
Of course, Jérôme!There is also ample evidence that killing your neighbours, raiding their stores, burning their fields and raping their women has a very long tradition.