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Persons of Clueless Backgrounds III

Santa Clara County, Calif., Superior Court Judge Jack Komar’s house was firebombed. A 17-year-old boy called 911 to blame the attack on someone else, but police quickly implicated him and two friends, aged 17 and 19, in the crime. But that’s not all. “It’s very, very clear that the hateful motive involved in this firebombing was because the suspects believed that the [judge was] Jewish,” a police spokesman said. The three, who live nearby, are now also suspected in an earlier anti-Semitic attack at the judge’s house last year, and have been charged with committing a hate crime, terrorism and arson. Bad enough, except Judge Komar is not Jewish. He’s Catholic. (AP) ...So much for the teens’ “supremacy” theory.


Publication Date: 26 September 1999

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