A video shows a retired police employee in the midst of an anti-Semitic rant.
She says she’s the one being ‘persecuted.’
When an SUV blocked-in Leslie Socolov’s Toyota Prius outside of a Vietnamese restaurant in Boca Raton on Saturday, the retired homicide stenographer began screaming at the driver. Socolov, clad in a Miami-Dade Police Department sweatshirt, hurled obscenity-laden demands to move the vehicle while making repeated anti-Semitic comments, a viral video of the incident shows.
“Move your f—ing car, you stupid Jew,” she screamed in the video. “Just because you’re Jewish and a Democrat doesn’t give you the right to stay there. Move it.”
Socolov, who was arrested Saturday for driving under the influence and disorderly intoxication, did not immediately return a request for comment late Tuesday. In an interview published by the Miami Herald Tuesday, Socolov acknowledged the encounter, but denied allegations that her rant was anti-Semitic, saying she is Jewish herself.
“I’m not anti-Semitic. I’m getting persecuted,” Socolov told the Herald. “Look at these Democrats getting away with bulls—.”
Dear everyone,
I don’t think it would surprise anyone that there seems to be a new and rising level of anti Semitism in this country. Much of it appears as a phenomenon with such a wide array of manifestations and background causes, some of it emanating from economic deprivation, psychologically rooted manifestations of paranoia and conspiracy theories, not to even mention just pure unadulterated hatred for ‘the other.’ And here, unfortunately and dangerously, the Jews all too often find themselves serving as the ‘coal miner’s canary’ due to such blatant and virulent forms of these hatreds in the society at large.
- This story (note: see ‘study materials attachment’) has caught my attention for a variety of reasons, not the least of which, as you might note in this brief synopsis, that one no longer has to be a Gentile (i.e. a non-Jew) nor devoid of Jewish blood in your DNA to find yourself in a position to either possess or spout-out certain hatreds toward both Jews and Judaism.
- Let’s bear in mind that some of the worst persecutors of Jewish history have been those born of Jewish households, often hiding behind masks that might otherwise reveal or suggest some form of discomfort (i.e. self hatred) within or toward their own Jewish bloodline (also: ethnicity) along with a personal self-enmity towards the religious beliefs of the Jewish tradition.
- This story also reveals to a fuller extent the degree to which ‘tribal politics and party affiliation’ have now seeped into the ugly realms of ‘racist-anti-Jewishsentiments’ and public outbursts.
Warm Regards,
Seth
