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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In all honesty, windows get smashed at DC businesses on a fairly regular basis these days.

So perhaps it was a hate crime, but I'd arrive at that conclusion much more quickly if it had happened in suburbia.[/quote]

I’m Jewish and this was my reaction as well. Getting windows smashed or shot up is a pretty regular occurrence in DC and I’d bet if you polled the dc population, only the Jews even know what Kristallnacht was at this point. I’m betting on coincidence until evidence proves otherwise. [/quote]

Non Jew here, knows about kristallnacht but not what month it took place. It isn’t common knowledge to know the exact date. That doesn’t negate the fear op must have felt. My first thought was that if someone is so hateful to research a tragic event and terrorize someone on the anniversary date of that event, there would probably be an obvious image or words. Sad to think about someone trying to reenact hate. Why are people saying there is antisemitism in this thread?[/quote]

A non-Jew here:

If you hate Jews enough to study up on the date of Krystallnacht, and then go a recreate the exact same thing as Krystallnacht, then it’s really not hard to conclude that this was an anti-Jewish attack. The act itself IS the acknowledgment - there doesn’t need to be graffiti or a note saying “I did this because I hate Jews and tonight is the anniversary of Krystallnacht”.

If you saw a cross burning on the lawn of your black neighbor down the street, would you wonder what that was about? Or would a burning cross on the lawn of a black family allow you to flow-chart what was going on?

We all already know the answer. But for some reason, you seem to reserve judgement when the victims are Jews. 
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Well said.  Thank you.
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