{"id":27084,"date":"2015-12-03T06:28:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T11:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27084"},"modified":"2015-12-03T06:28:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T11:28:48","slug":"when-is-a-hate-crime-not-a-hate-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27084","title":{"rendered":"When Is A Hate Crime Not A Hate Crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/jewish\/news\/1.689810?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Haaretz<\/a> is reporting today that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"New York City Police Department\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=40.712,-74.002&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=40.712,-74.002 (New%20York%20City%20Police%20Department)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">New York City Police Department<\/a> has identified the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Arson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">arsonist<\/a> who has set fire to seven <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bukharan Jews\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bukharan_Jews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Bukharan Jewish<\/a> homes in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Forest Hills, Queens\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=40.7161111111,-73.85&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=40.7161111111,-73.85 (Forest%20Hills%2C%20Queens)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Forest Hills<\/a>, a heavily Jewish <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Neighbourhood\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neighbourhood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">neighborhood<\/a> of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Queens\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=40.75,-73.8666666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=40.75,-73.8666666667 (Queens)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Queens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Police said the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fire\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">fires<\/a> are not <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hate crime\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hate_crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">hate crimes<\/a>, but were motivated by the arsonist\u2019s opposition to new construction of Bukharan Jewish homes in Forest Hills, a heavily Jewish neighborhood of Queens. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;\u201cIf seven Jewish homes had been burned in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"France\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=48.8566666667,2.35083333333&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=48.8566666667,2.35083333333 (France)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">France<\/a> within a month, there would be much more of an uproar,\u201d said Boris Yuabov, a doctor who has lived in the community for the past six years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cWe are scared,\u201d he added. \u201cThese fires are started in the dead of night in a neighborhood with many children and elderly individuals. This is a life-threatening situation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is what anti-Semitism looks like. If these houses had belonged to a different group of people, I wonder if it would have been considered a hate crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haaretz is reporting today that the New York City Police Department has identified the arsonist who has set fire to seven Bukharan Jewish homes in Forest Hills, a heavily Jewish neighborhood of Queens. 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