Jew stabs Jew mistaking him for Arab in IKEA

Police said that both the attacker and the victim – who was moderately injured – are Jews from Kiryat Ata, leading them to believe that it wasn’t a terrorist attack but merely a “criminal stabbing”. And now he’s lying in a hospital bed suffering in pain, classified in moderate condition, all because yet another Israeli Jew tried to stage a revenge attack on any Arab he could find to send a message with the slash of a knife.

According to the Israel Police, the attacker asked employees for their names to determine their ethnicity.

The victim, a 22-year-old, was injured in his upper torso and was treated by paramedics who rushed at the scene.

An Israeli youth stabbed another man believing him to be Palestinian only to discover he was a fellow Israeli Jew. In Jerusalem, two Palestinains conducted a deadly attack on a public bus, killing two Israelis, whilst a separate attack in the capital saw another Israeli killed. One of the assailants was killed, according to an ambulance service spokesman, and the other captured by police.

Shaked noted that there has recently been a sharp rise in the number of calls to the police hotline about suspected attacks, though most turn out to be false alarms. In the second attack in the city, a Jewish woman was wounded after being stabbed by an attacker, who was then arrested by police.

Like the right-wing racist mobs that increasingly roam the streets of Jerusalem after terror attacks and beat up (and occasionally try to kill) random Palestinians, an individual victim’s guilt or innocence does not matter.

Tuesday was the worst day of violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories since tensions erupted last month.