Two juveniles and an 18-year-old were charged with first-degree murder for the shooting of a 31-year-old Israeli man who was visiting relatives in Baltimore last month reports KTAR.
Baltimore police released a statement saying that 18-year old William Clinton III, as well as a 16-year-old and 17-year-old, are being held without bail in the deadly May 3 shooting of Efraim Gordon. Gordon was shot multiple times in what police claimed appeared to be a robbery.
Gordon had arrived from Israel to Baltimore to attend his cousin’s wedding. He was then shot in the city’s Glen neighborhood while walking to his aunt and uncle’s house, Councilman Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer said.
But Gordon’s family told the Times of Israel that he didn’t die in an attempted robbery, but was rather intentionally targeted because he was a Jew in a fatal act of antisemitism.
Gordon’s sister Ella, held a press conference where she emphasized that evidence of the case point to it being a targeted crime. She added that her brother was murdered by “terrorists.”
Breaking – 3 males have been arrested for the murder of a Jewish man, Efriam Gordon, visiting Baltimore from Israel for a family wedding.
William Clinton III, age 18
Unidentified, age 17
Rasheed Morris, age 16All three have been charged with 1st degree murder. pic.twitter.com/HzNVrbhI62
— StopAntisemitism.org (@StopAntisemites) June 4, 2021
“This was an act of terror, my brother didn’t just die,” Ella said. “There were no signs of violence, and they didn’t take money.”
“It was not a robbery that went wrong, but murder due to antisemitism,” Gordon explained, adding that her brother was wearing a kippa and had a beard, explicit signs that he was a Jew.
“They didn’t take anything, they left the bag, wallet, earphones, watch, the passport, it was all left behind. This was simply a murder because he was Jewish.”
Antisemitic incidents have reached unprecedented levels lately in America and worldwide. Many blame the spike in Jew-hatred on the recent fighting between Gaza and Israel in and following the May 2021 Operation ‘Guardians of the Wall’ operation. However, others argue that antisemitism has been a dormant force and that Israel’s defensive battle against the Hamas terror group served as a convenient excuse to begin expressing it openly.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which tracks incidents of anti-Jewish violence and bias, says they saw a 75% increase in anti-Semitism. The agency’s 25 regional offices released the report after Israeli-Arab fighting recently began.
But those are just the incidents that are being reported. Israel365 News recently discovered that antisemitism inside the United States is even more prevalent than the headlines imply. This bombshell development was revealed by Malcolm Hoenlein, vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
The majority of antisemitic incidents include assault, vandalism, and harassment.
However, they can also include cyber-bullying. The most daunting example of this phenomenon is the 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, Lily Ebert. Her crime? She wished her TikTok followers a “Good Shabbos” (Good Sabbath), and was responded to with a bombardment of anti-Semitic comments like: ‘Happy Holocaust’, ‘Peace be upon Hitler’, and ‘How are you still alive?’.
