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submitted 11 months ago by deconstruct@lemm.ee to c/news@lemmy.world

A Detroit synagogue president was found fatally stabbed outside her home Saturday morning.

Samantha Woll, 40, led the congregation of Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue. The synagogue confirmed Woll's death Saturday in a statement writing, “We are shocked and saddened to learn of the unexpected death of Samantha Woll, our Board President.”

“May her memory be a blessing,” the statement continued.

Authorities said a 911 call was made to Woll's home early Saturday, reporting an individual lying on the ground unresponsive. Police discovered multiple stab wounds on Woll's body and found a trail of blood leading to her house, where they believe the crime occurred.

An investigation is underway. At this time, the motive for the crime remains unknown.

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[-] halfempty@kbin.social 149 points 11 months ago

Far right white supremacist killings of Jews is far more prevalent in the US than Muslim killings of Jews. My first suspects would be among the extreme right.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 75 points 11 months ago

The whole far right media ecosystem is fucked. There was also the young Palestinian boy stabbed to death by a white right-wing nutjob for being Muslim recently because of the media's portrayal of this conflict.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-wadea-al-fayoume-death-was-obsessed-israel-hamas-war-prosecuto-rcna120589

[-] Im14abeer@midwest.social 44 points 11 months ago

Ordinarily I'd agree with you, but Occam's razor doesn't. Metro Detroit is home to the largest Arabic community in the country. I believe Jewish/Arab relations are pretty sound there, but given the current circumstances...

[-] mrpants@midwest.social 34 points 11 months ago

Far right arab supremacists also exist. Impossible to rule them out especially given the timing and circumstances.

[-] vivadanang@lemm.ee 50 points 11 months ago

place your bets place your bets will it be a nazi, a klansman, a jihadist, death by cop (never discount the possibility) or just some other random murderer? AAAAAMERRRRRICA THE LAND OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY

[-] superguy@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

Forgetting the biggest cause of murders for women in the US: it was someone they knew, probably a lover.

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[-] Rusticus@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

Maybe but the extreme right are mostly cowards that like to use firearms. A stabbing is off brand for right wing MAGAts.

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Nope. Remember the 71yo landlord who stabbed his Muslim tenants recently? Mother and her 6yo boy?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/15/plainfield-illinois-plainfield-six-year-old-muslim-boy-mother-murder-hate-crime

They like guns, but it seems most of them accidentally shoot each other/themselves.

But yes, cowards that like guns is true.

[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Interesting, but that does seems right.

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Out of morbid curiosity… are the ~~skinheads~~ white supremacists rooting for the Israelis or Hamas? Usually they don’t like brown people, but they also don’t like Jewish people.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

They're rooting for the Israelis because they want the ethnostate project to succeed.

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[-] marty_relaxes@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 11 months ago

I realize this isn't your point but I feel the need to point out that skinheads are not nazis - it is unfortunately a very well working project of cultural appropriation by the racists.

In the scene racist skinheads are mostly referred to as boneheads, a term which I think makes much more sense.

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[-] Brutticus@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

In general, they have different things they perceive and admire about the two. Please know, I'll be using some of their words. In Hamas, they see people battling "Degeneracy" and "Jewish Influence." There is an admiration for Israel, as an theocratic apartheid ethnostate. Seriously, at protests, Ive seen them carry Israeli flags before. Mostly, though its a party. "The subhumans" are fighting, one will be destroyed and one will look bad in the eyes of the international community.

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[-] Brutticus@lemm.ee 84 points 11 months ago

Local Jew in Detroit here. Woll was my friends' cousin. Another friend was in elementary school with her at Hillel.

People are shook up and scared. People aren't sure if this is the crest of a wave of antisemitic violence, or something more senseless.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 24 points 11 months ago

My 3 kids are half Jewish through my ex wife. I hear you and I had a chat with them this morning about this. Although I'm in Toronto, Canada the same bigots are here and have been empowered by the same vitriolic rhetoric floating around.

I told them that hate is hate and if they hear it directed specifically at them or a Muslim in their school (friends with Iranians) for them to report to the teachers and to me. Hate will not be tolerated.

Please stay safe.

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[-] S_204@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago

May her memory be a blessing.

Those who spread lies and disinformation are responsible for this death. The Jew hate needs to stop. This woman was American, not Israeli.

[-] Adonnen@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

Would that be better? If some Israeli Jew living in the US had been stabbed?

[-] S_204@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Why does the better alternative in your world have someone being stabbed?

A better option to me is nobody gets hurt that isn't involved in the conflict.

[-] flamingarms@feddit.uk 25 points 11 months ago

I think they're pointing out that it sounds like by saying "she was American, not Israeli" that you think it would have somehow been less awful if she was Israeli.

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[-] weirdwallace75@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

However, if you link this to an uptick in antisemitism tied to lies about Israel spread by "decolonizers" you're Noticing Things, And Therefore Wrong.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 30 points 11 months ago

You don't believe Israelites are illegally colonizing Palestine?

[-] krellor@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

Gaza or the West Bank? If both, then no and yes. Israel dismantled settlements in Gaza in 2005. Unfortunately, settlements continued in the West Bank, aggravating efforts to conclude the hand off of two of the three districts there.

Hamas is from the Gaza Strip, not the West Bank though. Gaza relations have been weird, but stabilizing with daily work travel through the border. Arguably, Hamas attacked now for fear that relations would continue to improve with Gaza, setting back their mission.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago

Both. Israel has illegally colonized Palestinian land in Gaza and the West Bank for 60 years now.

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[-] 8BitRoadTrip@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

How do you make a 911 call to someone’s home?

[-] teraflopsweat@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago

The article has been revised to clarify for you

Authorities said a 911 caller early Saturday reported a person lying on the ground unresponsive at Woll’s home.

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