Comments on: Name the ethnicity in the Israeli serial killer story

By: Philo-Semite

Philo-Semite — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:19:28 +0000

The whole story is much ado about nothing; Christian, Jewish, or astafarian, had he made it to Israel, Israel would simply have extradited him back to th USA.

By: jay

jay — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:23:51 +0000

You could have guessed his ethnicity by his first name. ONLY Arab Christians in Israel name their sons Elias. Sometimes Jews from Arab/Muslim countries have Arabic last names, but they would never name a son Elias. Arab Muslims would never name a son Elias. By a process of not very complicated elimination, you can figure these things out easily. (For example, if a guy’s first name is “Nissim” you just know he’s a North African Jew.)

The Guardian never fails to please:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/13/israeli-elias-abuelazam-accused-us-racist-murders

Check out that headline!!

They bury the fact that he’s a Christian Arab in the middle of the article.

By: sarah

sarah — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:23:25 +0000

I was so glad to see this posting as I said to my husband this morning
why aren’t they giving the man’s racial identity.. The media
wants him to be Jewish NOT palestinian.
Palestinians are just
“freedom fighters” ha ha They can’t do any terrorism

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:59:37 +0000

Yourish, thank you for this!!! And thanks for the updates. You might add (and contact) Huffington Post (which I follow regularly since I am a great fan of Arianna H. for everything else) which listed him as a mixed-Jewish- (!) Arab Israeli!!!

The paranoia about offending Muslims, especially as Ramadan begins, with the NYC Mosque controversy in the middle and the insane Muslim-bashing at the other end, must be part of the idiotic non-stop reference to this turd as if he were an Israeli Jew — and no doubt, in some quarters, there is anti-Israel bias. The end result is a large population of African Americans, including his tragic victims, their relatives and friends and others, assuming that this is some “racist Jew”!

As for Palestinian dialect, I, too, chuckled, thinking “Maybe Arabic?” — although there are certainly dialect versions of Arabic as of most other languages — but either way, he is clearly not an Israeli Jew!

By: Gary Rosen

Gary Rosen — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:20:31 +0000

“I was relieved to learn that he was arab.”

It really shoudn’t make a difference. If an individual does something bad it should reflect on him, not on everyone of his race/religion/ethnicity. But that is human nature. What ticks me off is Meryl’s point that they are emphasizing he is Israeli and you can be damn sure if he were Jewish they’d be talking it up but since he is not they aren’t mentioning his background at all. That’s why they call it the MFM.

By: Ashan

Ashan — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:01:06 +0000

“He speaks with a Palestinian dialect.” Hilarious. That “dialect” is called Arabic.
PC is a mental illness.

By: annoyinglittletwerp

annoyinglittletwerp — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:20:58 +0000

I commented to some Hot Air peeps-before I learn that the guy wasn’t Jewish-that someone was sure to blame his actions on some evil Jewish plot.
I was relieved to learn that he was arab.

By: Tangaroa

Tangaroa — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:41:48 +0000

To add a point to Trudy’s comment: if this guy was a Jew, I would expect people like Greenwald, based on their track record, to publish essays implying that all Israeli Jews are racist because of this one guy. Since he is an Arab, there will be no essays from these same people about how these attacks arose from the inherent racism of Arab society which the writer just invented right now.

By: Empress Trudy

Empress Trudy — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:25:23 +0000

That’s why paid shills like Joan Walsh and Glenn Greenwald won’t touch this story. As soon as someone points out that the killer isn’t Jewish they’ll spike it.