Remember when the media claimed there was a surge in hate crimes during Donald Trump’s presidency, and then it felt like so many alleged hate crimes turned out to be hoaxes? The mainstream media was so desperate to perpetuate the narrative that Trump’s presidency was some sort of inspiration for hate that anyone claiming to be the victim of a hate crime was given a soap box.
Well, now that we’re seeing a disturbing rise in anti-Semitism nationwide in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, some people are apparently trying to flip the narrative. An Ohio man has been arrested for lying to the police after claiming he’d been a victim of an anti-Palestinian hate crime.
Twenty-year-old Hesham A. Ayyad claimed that a driver yelled “Kill all Palestinians” and “Long live Israel,” and then hit him with his car while shouting “Die!” He took his story to the Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which, naturally, fell for the story hook, line, and sinker and issued a press release last month calling on state and federal law enforcement authorities “to monitor and investigate crimes related to the…
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