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Robin né Robert Westman, the demented man who shot into the Annunciation Catholic Church School in Minneapolis, killing an eight-year-old and a ten-year-old, and wounding seventeen others, both children and teachers, has been widely reported as being an equal-opportunity “hater.” As the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minneapolis put it, “There appears to be only one group that the shooter didn’t hate, one group of people who the shooter admired — the group were the school shooters and mass murderers that are notorious in this country.”

Westman wrote on his rifle’s gunstock and on a holster all sorts of messages against Christians, Hindus, LGBTQ individuals, women, and — oh yes — Jews. But what the news stories almost never made clear was the fact that he bore a special animus for Jews that was on a different level from the hatred he bore others. Among the messages he wrote on his weapons were “Burn Israel,” “6 million wasn’t enough,” and “Extra Thicc! [sic] Jew Gas.”

He had only one comment that was apparently about Muslims written on a gun: “Remove kebab.” Yet he also wrote “Mashallah” (what Allah wills) and “Atta” on other weapons. There is more here about his special hatred for Jews: “Trans Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman mused about slaughtering ‘filthy Zionist Jews’ in sick journal before deadly Catholic school massacre,” by Diana Nerozzi and Anthony Blair, New York Post, August 27, 2025:

Transgender Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman spoke of murdering “filthy Zionist Jews” and spewed other antisemitic bile in a twisted manifesto before he opened fire at a Catholic school Wednesday morning, killing two children.

Westman, 23, also wrote slogans such as “Free Palestine” in a journal he wrote in the Cyrillic alphabet, which The Post translated, after YouTube clips showing the diary pages were posted online on his since-deleted channel.

“If I will carry out a racially motivated attack, it would be most likely against filthy Zionist jews,” he wrote in one disgusting entry.

“I hate those entitled, penny-sniffing k-kes,” he wrote elsewhere in the journal, which was full of antisemitic slurs.

Westman also wrote “6 million wasn’t enough” — a reference to the number of Jewish Holocaust victims — on the side of ammunition magazines he filmed before the shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School and Church in Minneapolis that also left 17 people wounded.

Another message scrawled on one of his many magazines read “Destroy HIAS,” the Jewish refugee aid group, while one of his guns read “Israel must fall, release the files,” a possible reference to Jeffrey Epstein.

The deranged gunman mused about assassinating President Trump and Jews — but ultimately decided that killing “children of innocent civilians” would bring him “the most joy,” the translated journal entries read….

So here is my question: what prevented the BBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the rest of the Great and Good in our media universe (the New York Post is not part of that exalted company) from pointing out that “while Robin Westman expressed his dislike or hatred of many different groups, he had a special hatred not just for Jews, but also for the state of Israel. He also expressed support for a ‘free Palestine.’”

While Westman’s fanatical antisemitism has been depicted in the mainstream media as being just one more of his hatreds, rather than what it was — his supreme hatred, different in kind from all the others — antisemites had an initial field day insisting, falsely, that Westman was “Jewish,” as here.

For example, one Lauren Witzke, who ran for the Senate from Delaware in 2020, describes herself as a “Christian nationalist,” and is a believer in the QAnon conspiracy, wrote on X that a “transgender Jewish man” had “ended the lives of Christian children.” Her post on X gained more than 530,000 views and 8,000 likes within a day of being posted. The claim appeared several times on X, including a post by someone identifying as “Six Million,” who wrote that “Robert Westman is ashkenazi jew.” Why has that story, of how the antisemites have rushed to claim on social media that Westman was Jewish, been completely ignored?