Revisionism In Action
NO ONE SHOULD be much surprised in this (or any other) day and age to learn that people with certain political agendas spin, twist, neglect, add and change facts in order to prove a certain point. Both the right and the left do it, as well as everyone in between and outside. Still, it sure is fun to point it out when it's done so blatantly.
RePorter NoteBook makes few bones about the fact that they're an anti-Semitic news service. They gather together wire stories, interviews and editorials from mainstream sources both here and abroad that cast Israel in a bad light, promote Holocaust Revisionism and uncover fake hate crimes.
It was those fake hate crimes they were excited about last Monday-specifically the case of Olga Abramovich. She was the bipolar Bay Ridge woman arrested last week for spraypainting swastikas on schools, synagogues and cars in an effort to get back at her ex-husband, who'd dumped her for a younger woman.
Instead of citing an account of this incident from a local New York paper, they cite an Associated Press story as it appeared on a British website. The story ran with this headline: "Jewish Woman Charged In Swastika Graffiti."
But there's nothing in the story about Abramovich being Jewish-and that's because she isn't. Her ex-husband is, and he ran off with a Jewish woman, but local accounts made it clear that Abramovich is Russian Orthodox.
Still, whether it's true or not, because of that mistaken headline, RePorter NoteBook can hold the story up as yet another instance in which the Jews themselves have faked an anti-Semitic "hate crime."
Sad thing is, it's probably all they need to do.