{"id":177364,"date":"2019-10-09T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/09\/this-is-beyond-horrible\/"},"modified":"2019-10-09T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:20:00","slug":"this-is-beyond-horrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/09\/this-is-beyond-horrible\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Beyond Horrible"},"content":{"rendered":"
It appears that a neo-Nazi shot up a German synagogue and live-streamed the whole thing<\/a>.<\/div>\n

I first heard about this when my RABBI<\/b> mentioned that there had been a shooting this afternoon:<\/p>\n

A heavily armed gunman with a live-streaming head camera tried to storm a synagogue in eastern Germany on Wednesday as congregants observed the holiest day in Judaism. Foiled by a locked door, he killed two people outside and wounded two others in an anti-Semitic spree that smacked of far-right terrorism.<\/p>\n

Hours later the police announced the arrest of a suspect in the assault in the city of Halle, one of the most brazen in a string of recent attacks aimed at Jews in Germany. Police officials declined to confirm if the suspect was the gunman or whether he had any accomplices.<\/p>\n

The methodology of the assailant bore a striking resemblance to the rampage by a far-right extremist against two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand<\/a>, more than six months ago, in which he broadcast his killings live on social media. Fifty-one people died in that attack.<\/p>\n

Like the Christchurch killer, the Halle assailant recorded himself, in a 35-minute video of shooting, mayhem and hateful language. In accented English, he identified himself as Anon, denied the Holocaust, denounced feminists and immigrants, then declared: \u201cThe root of all these problems is the Jew.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

The assailant uploaded his video to Twitch, a live-streaming platform owned by Amazon that has struggled with moderating the real-time content<\/a> that floods in from millions of active broadcasters. Alerted to the broadcast, Twitch scrambled to remove it and issue an apology, but not before right-wing sites had archived it. Some exalted the killer as a hero.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It could have been worse, but it appears that the gunman was a pretty crappy gunsmith, and his homemade weapons, an automatic weapon and a shotgun, both failed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course he did it on Yom Kippur.<\/p>\n

F%$# Nazis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that a neo-Nazi shot up a German synagogue and live-streamed the whole thing. I first heard about this when my RABBI mentioned that there had been a shooting this afternoon: A heavily armed gunman with a live-streaming head camera tried to storm a synagogue in eastern Germany on Wednesday as congregants observed the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[546,506,371,364,380,373],"class_list":["post-177364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antisemitism","tag-bigotry","tag-europe","tag-evil","tag-religion","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}