from Mondoweiss
On Sunday, a 27-year-old Jewish man in Miami Beach named Mordechai Brafman, shot 17 rounds at a father and his son, Yarin and Ari Rabi because he believed “they were Palestinian.” Brafman’s social media profile seems to indicate an interest in Jewish vigilante groups and he thought he had killed them but they were only wounded. And it turned out that the two were actually Israeli tourists.
The story then had another bizarre twist: the son who had been shot, Ari Rabi, posted on social media that he was a victim of attempted murder for antisemitic reasons – a post which was later deleted:
“My father and I experienced attempted murder on antisemitic background. They tried to murder us in the heart of Miami, but God is with us, so it didn’t workout for him. I want to say thank you to everyone for the support and that we don’t take it for granted. Am Israel chai
[the people of Israel live]. Death to Arabs
”.
So Brafman wanted the death of the two Israelis because he thought they were Palestinian, and one of the victims wanted “death to Arabs” (read: Palestinians) because he thought he was targeted for being a Jew.
The call for “death to Arabs” has basically been sanitized from Israeli media reporting. In an interview on Israeli Channel 13, Wednesday, the father and the son were asked:
“When you found out that he was Jewish, the shooter, and the reason he shot…”
Yarin, the father: “We didn’t find out immediately that he’s Jewish, only after we went to the FBI offices, then we realized it’s a Jewish guy.” ...
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