It’s the same old pattern. An obvious hate crime. An obvious act of terror.
Yet public authorities and the media are reticent about calling it for what it is. Worried about offending certain groups, and being accused of hate themselves?
We see the same phenomenon in response to the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in DC last night by a man yelling “Free, Free Palestine,” and who told an eyewitness, “I did it for Palestine. I did it for Gaza.”
On CNN This Morning, CNN security analyst Juliette Kayyem, a former Obama DHS appointee, said:
“We can’t deny [that] the suspect said Free Palestine. He killed two Israelis. There may be either a hate crime or a federal crime, of course.”
Her mention of a “federal crime” was a reference to possible terrorism charges.
There “may be” a hate crime?
Funny, Kayyem wasn’t…
