Self-proclaimed 'Jew hater' under investigation after incident at Detroit-area synagogue

[Behind the Aegis]

Police are investigating after witnesses said a man who reportedly called himself a “Jew hater” drove to a Detroit-area synagogue, yelled antisemitic slurs at two people outside the building and threw a pair of work gloves at one of them.

The incident in Oak Park, Michigan began at about 9 a.m. on Thursday, when police said in a statement that a white man “with thick dark hair and a long dark beard” driving a Chevrolet SUV pulled into the parking lot of Congregation Beth Shalom. At the time, Alicia Nelson and her husband, Rabbi Emeritus David Nelson, 85, were stopping by his synagogue office, and Alicia had stepped out to enter the building.

According to the Detroit Jewish News, the driver of the car then yelled at Alicia, “How are you doing, baby killer?” and yelled “F—ing b—tch!” as he drove away from the synagogue parking lot and parked in the lot of a nearby early childhood center.

Another Jewish woman, an employee of the synagogue, soon pulled into the synagogue parking lot, whereupon the driver returned.

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[brer cat]

1. I will never understand hated of Jews,

or what motivates people to publicly act out on their hatred.

[jimfields33]

2. I never will either.

They are the group who went through absolute horror a short 60 years ago. We should be making their lives as best we can. I don’t understand how the college students are stopping them from getting an education, saying antisemitism rhetoric and making and doing terroristic attacks to Jewish buildings. I just don’t get it.