Antisemitism and the Murder of Samantha Woll
You might remember the murder of Samantha Woll in Detroit, Michigan on 21st October 2023.
The reason why is because Woll was a significant local jewish community leader in Detroit having founded the ‘Muslim-Jewish Forum of Detroit’ and being the serving president of Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue (which adheres to the unusual and very small Reconstructionist branch of Judaism [i.e., Judaism is a civilization]) at the time of her death.
Her murder also occurred soon after the 7th October 2023 Hamas offensive against Israel and perhaps predictably jewish figures immediately linked her death – without any actual evidence other than ‘she was murdered’ and ‘she was jewish’ – to ‘anti-Semitism’.
Long-time jewish head of the American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten and Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli both publicly stated that they believed Woll was murdered by ‘anti-Semites’. (1) Ben Clerkin writing for Britain’s ‘Jewish Chronicle’ also spent an entire article shrieking about how Woll was ‘murdered because she was jewish’. (2)
The irony of course is that Detroit’s police force early on stated that they didn’t think Woll’s murder was anything to do with her jewishness (3) and even the ‘Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit’ pooh-poohed the idea in the days after her death. (4)
Indeed, Detroit police were forced to constantly repeat that they were pretty sure it wasn’t an ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ as the jews kept hysterically shrieking that it was even though there was no evidence of such as both Cassidy Johncox for ‘Click on Detroit’ (5) and Rachel Sharp for ‘The Independent’ (6) were at pains to explain although the ‘Jewish Chronicle’ still weren’t having it. (7)
By December 2023 however it had become extremely evident that the Detroit police were right and the jews were wrong because charges were proffered and anti-Semitism wasn’t even on the radar. (8)
As Woll’s friend Rabbi Alana Alpert wrote in the ‘Jewish Daily Forward’:
‘We now know that the Detroit police do not believe Sam was targeted because she was Jewish. And while I understand why many of us initially feared this, it was disheartening to see some people — from within the Jewish community and without — rush to an assumption that condemned some of our neighbors based on their religion or race. It’s a reminder that, even when we are afraid and in pain — or perhaps especially when we are — we have to refuse the impulse to isolate ourselves.’ (9)
As Rachel Sharp in a follow-up article wrote:
‘Woll was stabbed eight times in the attack at her home in Lafayette Park on 21 October, prosecutors said. The attack began inside her home before she stumbled outside and collapsed in the street.
Prosecutors described her murder as a “crime of opportunity” when Mr Jackson-Bolanos was allegedly “prowling” the neighbourhood stealing from cars and came across her open front door.
Woll’s blood has allegedly been found on a jacket that the suspect was wearing on the night of the murder, the court heard.’ (10)
Basically there was never any evidence or link to ‘anti-Semitism’ and Samantha Woll’s jewishness was a factor in their murder and it just goes to show how chutzpah works and how jews will use it to try and manipulate you into sympathizing with them and their causes.
References
(1) https://www.timesofisrael.com/president-of-detroit-synagogue-stabbed-to-death/
(2) https://www.thejc.com/news/world/synagogue-president-stabbed-to-death-in-michigan-rdqgnu4a
(3) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/23/was-detroit-synagogue-president-samantha-woll-police-hate-crime ; https://abcnews.go.com/US/detroit-synagogue-president-found-stabbed-death-home/story?id=104197780
(4) https://www.timesofisrael.com/president-of-detroit-synagogue-stabbed-to-death/
(5) https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2023/10/24/detroit-police-maintain-samantha-wolls-murder-wasnt-hate-crime-but-share-few-details/
(6) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/samantha-woll-detroit-murder-suspect-update-b2461898.html
(7) https://www.thejc.com/news/usa/police-make-arrest-in-case-of-murdered-detroit-synagogue-president-b7h8ztb1
(8) https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2023-12-14/ty-article/stranger-charged-with-break-in-murder-in-slaying-of-detroit-synagogue-leader/0000018c-653a-de5e-a3ef-6fff02650000
(9) https://forward.com/opinion/566818/samantha-woll-death-muslim-jewish-solidarity/
(10) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/samantha-woll-detroit-michael-jackson-bolanos-latest-b2463851.html also see https://www.jns.org/samantha-woll-stabbed-eight-times-in-face-neck/ and https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67716291