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Behind the Aegis

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Tue Apr 10, 2018, 04:28 PM Apr 2018

(Jewish Group) The unmentioned motive in Parkland: anti-Semitism

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

NEARLY EIGHT WEEKS AGO, a gunman armed with a semiautomatic rifle killed 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

Unlike previous mass shootings, the Parkland massacre sparked a long overdue and much-needed national debate about guns. It also led to a wave of gun control activism. Marches in Washington and across the country, organized, in part, by the survivors of the shooting, were attended by hundreds of thousands of Americans demanding stronger gun laws.

But one thing has strangely been missing from the post-Parkland debate: that the shooting had all the makings of an anti-Semitic hate crime.

While we still don’t know the full story about why Nikolas Cruz entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas with an AR-15 rifle and gunned down 17 people, there is disturbing evidence that suggests Cruz was driven, in good part, by animus toward Jews.


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