Hoax Confirmed: The Terror of Intoxication (2018)

According to the Times of Israel the following alleged ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ occurred in Belgium in 2018.

To wit:

‘A Belgian watchdog group on anti-Semitism said the near-ramming of a Jewish father and son in Antwerp was a racist attack, but police said the suspect was inebriated and was charged merely with reckless driving.

In a statement Monday, the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism, or LBCA, said its lawyers have initiated a criminal court case against the driver who on Saturday narrowly missed with his car the father and son while they were walking on the sidewalk. In Belgium, third parties in certain alleged offenses can sue defendants, who are then often exposed to criminal proceedings.

The father and son were dressed in Hasidic garb.

“The act appeared premeditated and the motivation, in the absence of any other explanation, should be seen as anti-Semitic,” the statement read, adding that the case “is immediately reminiscent of car-ramming terrorist attacks recorded in Barcelona, Berlin, Jerusalem, London, New York, Nice and Stockholm.”

The Antwerp-based Joods Actueel Jewish monthly reported that witnesses said the driver had foreign origins. The report did not name the man or offer any additional information on his identity. He was tracked down through the footage of the license plate and was arraigned on Sunday.

Contacted by JTA, a spokesman for the Antwerp police declined to offer additional information about the suspect.

“The driver shortly after the incident was arrested by officers after he was observed driving recklessly,” the spokesman said. “The man was detained for drunk driving and has been arraigned.”

Security cameras showed a black Seat Ibiza swerving sharply while speeding on Isabellalei, a central street in Antwerp, toward the father and son, who were dressed in Hasidic garb, according to Joods Actueel. The car is seen intersecting a bike path, apparently while speeding, then climbing the curb as the two are walking toward it, prompting the father and son to jump away from the curb and toward the safety of the building facades.

They jump behind a lamppost and the car swerves back wildly, returning to the road from its incursion into the sidewalk. The father runs after the car as it speeds away.

The incident in Antwerp is one of several recent cases in which Jewish groups and authorities in Western Europe disagreed on the role of anti-Semitism in the actions of alleged perpetrators of violence, including in Amsterdam and Paris.’ (1)

Having viewed the footage of the incident (2) I can safely say that I believe that Antwerp’s police force are right and the jews wrong.

The JTA article reproduced by the Times of Israel deliberately misrepresents the footage, because while the Black Seat Ibiza does drive up on the pavement towards the clearly Hasidic father and son. It does so at a shallow gradient like he has lost concentration and then serves back sharply on the road before he would have hit the father and son.

In other words; he is driving like someone who is drunk and in fact was, but the biggest misrepresentation in the JTA’s account is that they claimed that the father and son only survived because they dodged behind a lamp post.

Firstly it is a sign post not a lamp post, but more meaningfully they are not in fact behind it and had the driver of the car merely continued on rather than swerving. Then he would have in fact hit the jewish father and the son not the sign post.

The fact that he didn’t do this and instead swerved back onto the road rather sharply before he hit the two jews as well as having subsequently been found to be drunk.

This therefore clearly indicates that the Antwerp police have got this right and it is not an ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’, but rather a bit of drunk-driving that while reprehensible isn’t part of a plot to murder jews as the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism, Joods Actueel, JTA and the Times of Israel have been quick to claim.

Scratch another ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ hoax.

References

(1) https://www.timesofisrael.com/antwerp-police-alleged-car-ramming-attempt-not-a-hate-crime/ ; alternatively see http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/legal-action-launched-after-car-ramming-of-jewish-man-not-seen-as-hate-crime/

(2) If you want to see for yourself then here is the footage: