Making some link to Middle Eastern (or Northern African) foreign policy certainly sounds reasonable considering the targets and the fact they they seem intentionally targeted. The modus operandi here however suggests a small group or, most likely, a lone nut job who's either just barely sophisticated or just lucky enough to be getting away with it. Running around chasing people with guns is fairly high risk as this usually ends in a police fire fight. If he (she?) chooses to keep this up, he'll eventually get shot.
Yes, they would, but why would the news single out such a thing - especially from a sequence of related events. If a Rabbi, and Imam and a Catholic priest all get killed by a car bomb, for example, the Muslim might feel it was attack on his faith, the Jew might feel it was an attack on his faith and the Muslim might feel that it was an attack on his faith but if the news says that there has been an anti-semitic attack but also a Catholic and a Muslim died then it has turned the story into something other than what it is. It is clearly biased and I think could provoke a backlash itself from the other communities whose tragedies are portrayed as second class. It's the kind of subtle language thing that goes on all the time when white people are murdered or killed but black and brown people merely die under the same circumstances. It's a biased representation that obscures the real story.
Right - but they didn't use any terms that are specific to child killing, did they. The issue became not that they were kids but that they were jews. That is wrong. They were kids and it doesn't matter whose kids they were - it's that they were kids that was most important. And ALL of the victims were people.
Well, perhaps it's something to do with who IS the media. Obviously Jews are more concerned about issues that affect Jews. The principle extends to Western media in general who feel that the death of a western soldier is far more of a loss to humanity than the non western kids he killed. But that is wrong too. It's myopic and divisive.
Using the word antisemitism DOES single them out. The fact that there is a word for it singles them out. If it were any other group then it would just be racism but the fact that there is a special term for this particular kind of racism MAKES this kind of racism special. Is there any special word for the attacks on the blacks? Is there such a word for antiromani violence? The Romani suffered in WWII as well. They didn't come out of it with any special word.[/quote]
