78th Shooting Attack On Jews: LAPD Still Unsure Motive Antisemitic

Jews have a tendency to see attacks on them as motivated by hate for Jews, which is only true in about 98% of cases.

Los Angeles, March 2 – The Los Angeles Police Department voiced reluctance today to classify the latest violent assault on Jews as a hate crime, a spokesman explained Thursday, noting that only six-and-a-half dozen incidents involving Jewish people, symbols, and institutions in the area in the space of three weeks are not enough evidence to solidify the case that the spree emerges from animus toward Jews.

LAPD Lieutenant Meyer Dindi-Niall cautioned journalists today that the 78th shooting attack on visibly-Jewish people and places in and around the city since mid-February might appear to the uninitiated as a spate of related antisemitic incidents, but in fact the figurative jury remains out on such a conclusion.

“It’s not so simple,” he explained in response to a reporter’s question. “Yes, the number of assaults in such a short span raises suspicions that a common thread runs through the cases; yes, in the 50 cases in which we have a suspect, the suspect has expressed antisemitic sentiments or been involved in other aggressions against Jews or Jewish institutions; yes, the number of incidents far exceeds the statistical probability of Jews falling victim relative to their percentage of the area’s population. But other forces are at work here.”

Analysts expanded on Lt. Dindi-Niall’s admonishment not to jump to premature conclusions. “Obviously, antisemitic motives cannot be ruled out, and that avenue of investigation will continue,” assured Khaybar Yahud, a former police sergeant and now a community consultant to the department. “It’s just that Jews have a tendency to see attacks on them as motivated by hate for Jews, which we know is only true in about 98% of cases. It’s not helpful to make the logical leap from visibly-Jewish-person-attacked to attacker-targeted-Jews-specifically without considering other possibilities, such as it’s not politically expedient to acknowledge Jews are not actually privileged but indeed fall prey to attacks more than any other ethnic or religious group in the US combined. You can’t say that.”

The consultant placed the trend in the larger, global context of Jewish-Muslim relations. “If officials publicly recognize that Jews can be victims,” he continued, “then the facile axioms underlying much of the mainstream narrative of Palestine, for example, become untenable, and that makes the grievance-class upset. Muslims, several of whom number among the perpetrators of the latest spate of assaults on Jews, hold a place higher in the grievance hierarchy than Jews; seeing Jews as victims of Muslims opens a dangerous door toward viewing Israel as a victim, which undermines much of what we in this state and society hold dear.”

The Department’s provisional classification of the 78 incidents is “Islamophobia.”

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