Hoax Alert: Lost in Los Angeles (2019)

According to JTA there was a so-called ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ in Los Angeles back in 2019.

To wit:

‘Police are investigating who painted “f**king Jews” on the facade of a Los Angeles synagogue.

“It’s really hurtful, I mean to all the members here, they’re being hurt with such a thing that somebody passed by a synagogue and wrote such a thing on the wall,” Rabbi Shlomo Haghighi, who works at the Mishkan Torah religious seminary and synagogue in the Tarzana neighborhood, told KCAL9.

There are no suspects in custody for the vandalism, which occurred Tuesday, CBS’s KCAL9 television channel reported.

Hate crimes against Jews in America rose by more than a third in 2017 and accounted for 58 percent of all religion-based hate crimes, according to data released in November by the FBI. The report noted a 23 percent increase in religion-based hate crimes in 2017 to 1,564, representing about 20 percent of all hate crimes.’ (1)

Now there aren’t a lot of facts to go on here – as no photo of the graffiti concerned has ever emerged – but looking at the ‘synagogue’ – actually a run-down yeshiva – on Google Maps. It has multiple (and obvious) security cameras linked to motion-sensitive security lights. So one wonders how on earth we have no image of the culprits given that only two walls – one of which is mainly glass – are accessible from the road and the jews are shrieking about ‘hate’.

Strange: no?

Maybe the reason that we don’t have such an image is because Rabbi Shlomo Haghighi or someone connected to the ‘Mishkan Torah’ yeshiva was responsible for this rather obvious case of ‘Rabbi, whatcha doing?’

References

(1) https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/anti-semitic-graffiti-found-on-l-a-synagogue