Ryli Dunlap
1 min readFeb 22, 2025

I was going to write about this incident too but you beat me to it!

As if it wasn't bonkers enough that Brafman was just cruising around town looking for Palestinians to shoot (In Florida no less - where else?), the victim responds blaming the attack on anti-semitism, then concludes his remarks by wishing death to Arabs.

It's a good warning of how feeding hate creates a monster that can turn on you too.

I wonder if Ari Rabey is even capable of the thought necessary to ponder the irony of the hate he advocates being the motive for his attempted murder at the hands of a fellow hate-crime purveyor who thinks as he does.

Probably not. Perhaps his brain is too scrambled at this point.

There used to be a Public Service Ad in the US that showed an egg frying in pan, and the caption: "This is your brain on drugs."

Well, what this incident shows is your brain on hate.

All parties involved in this incident are crazed lunatics. What a moronic display of violent stupidity they've put on exhibit for us.

The other thing that I noticed is that this was widely covered in the American press as 'accidental', as if it would have been OK if Brafman had correctly identified some Palestinians to murder.

Perhaps it was just a grammatical oversight by rushed editors, but there was nothing 'accidental' about this shooting. It was very pre-meditated and intentional, despite the fact that - lucky for the victims - Brafman is apparently a very poor marksman.

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Ryli Dunlap
Ryli Dunlap

Written by Ryli Dunlap

Aspiring writer. Recovering programmer. Many opinions — some unpopular. I unload them here. Blog: https://pontifi.co Dance/Music: https://rylito.com

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