Hoax Alert: The Anti-Semitic Death Rock of Winnipeg (2017)
Back in 2017 we had a pretty unique alleged ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ in Winnipeg, Canada.
I quote the summary of ‘The Times of Israel’ for the details:
‘A package with an anti-Semitic epithet and a reference to a Nazi death squad was left on the doorstep of a Jewish couple in Winnipeg, Canada.
The incident occurred on New Year’s Eve, B’nai Brith Canada said in a statement Wednesday.
The couple returned home at about 10 p.m. to find a red gift bag on their front steps containing a rock the size of a loaf of bread wrapped in a ribbon. Painted on the rock in red letters was “DIE JEW BITCH. EINSATZGRUPPEN.”’ (1)
This isn’t as absurd an ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ per se as many I have reported on are, but there are two points I need to highlight.
In the first instance; the ‘Nazi hate criminals’ used the word ‘Einsatzgruppen’ (i.e., ‘Task Forces’ in reference to the death squads used by the Third Reich on the Eastern Front) in the plural rather than the singular. This suggests that for evil ‘Nazi hate criminals’; they don’t know much German and are likely recycling words they saw on the History Channel.
Is it likely that ‘evil Nazis’ are going to make this sort of silly error?
Not really, but it is a mistake that a jew couple who want to be ‘victims of hate’ or spread ‘awareness of hate’ might make, because they only know as much as the History Channel tells them about the Third Reich and its soldiers.
In the second, aside from being a rather amusing prank, I note that the use of a red gift bag with a red bow is odd. Precisely because while it adds impact: there is no political message other than a vague threat involved and its inclusion means that the ‘Nazi hate criminals’ are more at risk of being exposed due to tracking the purchases/DNA etc.
The fact remains that this just doesn’t really reek of ‘Nazi hate criminals’, but rather jewish couples wanting attention as ‘victims of hate’ or looking to ‘spread awareness about the rising anti-Semitism in Canadian society’.
References
(1) https://www.timesofisrael.com/swastika-die-jew-left-on-rock-at-door-of-canadian-couple/ ; https://www.jta.org/2017/01/05/global/package-with-anti-semitic-epithet-nazi-reference-left-at-door-of-canadian-couple