The Florida Douglas High School Shooting Was an AntiSemitic Hate Crime And Nobodys Talking About It

[oberliner]

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.”

“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 be rioting. People are not rioting 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.

https://medium.com/@natalielifson/the-florida-douglas-high-school-shooting-was-an-anti-semitic-hate-crime-e1977d46bcef

[hexola]

1. Easy hoss, its only been 48 hours!

Takes time for the story to come together...

And - guns should still be the star of this story.

[underpants]

2. You may want to give this a thorough read.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/evidence-linking-alleged-shooter-to-white-supremacist-group-is-unraveling_us_5a860d74e4b004fc3190630c

[hlthe2b]

3. Take it slowly... There has been reporting that has since been withdrawn or at least questioned

It will come out if it is indeed true.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210237162

Read the full article in the linked thread and see if you don't want to take some time to let this fully come to light. Clearly, we want the truth, but don't want to reward those who might want to exploit this tragedy for their own ugly benefit--and Jerub sounds like just this kind of cretin.

[oberliner]

4. Just to clarify: this is an article that I read by someone else

The subject line is the title of the article which I excerpted in my post.

I did not write this piece, but I did find her thoughts to be worth considering and sharing.

Perhaps, as more info comes out, this angle will be explored more fully (though it may turn out to not be relevant).