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We May Never Know the Motivations of the Man Who Shouted Anti-Semitic Slurs Before Trying to Kills Jews
by Armin Rosen
November 28, 2018

This one seems about as straightforward as it gets: At around 9:30 on a Friday night, a 32-year-old man lurked outside of a Los Angeles synagogue in a rented car and then screamed anti-Jewish invective as he tried to run down two men emerging from the sanctuary. The would-be victims were able to shelter behind an electrical box as they noticed the car accelerating but the attacker, Mogadishu-born Mohamed Mohamed Abdi, was so determined to kill Jews that he ran a red light and made an abrupt U-turn in order to have a second shot at his targets. READ MORE