The L.A. Times today has a thoughtful op-ed piece that approaches the Boalt scandal with appropriate skepticism. It also mentions Erin O'Connor and me.
The Religion of Peace commits another act of mass murder. Gil Shterzer has pictures.
Der Spiegel is reporting that the man who hijacked a small airplane and threatened to crash it into a Frankfurt skyscraper is a mentally ill German. His primary motivation was apparently to get publicity for Judith Resnick, one of the astronauts who died in the 1986 Challenger shuttle explosion.
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Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at January 05, 2003 10:30 AMThe Frankfurt story is bizarre. I wonder why the Spiegel describes Resnick as a "Jewish astronaut". Was the man's obsession with her based in part on her Jewishness? Enquiring minds ...
Posted by: DLG on January 5, 2003 08:38 PMI wonder why the Spiegel describes Resnick as a "Jewish astronaut".
I guess in Germany, if you are a Jew they don't consider you a German so maybe they assume (wrongly) that America follows the same practice.
Posted by: quiet storm on January 5, 2003 09:04 PMThe Spiegel page doesn't make it clear, but the hijacker himself said that he wanted to honor 'the first Jewish female astronaut'. The Spiegel report makes it sound out of context. The German press does _not_ generally have a anti-Jewish streak (or do you see it otherwise, Stefan?), and quiet storms offhand remark is simply not true.
Really bizarre was the Reuters headline 'German man arrested for stealing plane'. Talk about understatement!
Posted by: Scott Hanson on January 5, 2003 11:46 PMI'll concur with Scott. I've been reading the websites of the mainstream German press for nearly two years. If there's an anti-Jewish streak, I haven't encountered it.
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