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The Owen Jones Podcast

He Shot Two Israelis... Thinking They Were Palestinian

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

News, Politics, News & Politics, Government

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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This is so messed up, so disturbing, that it frankly sounds like a dark satire in a very edgy comedy. Well,

0:46.6

alas, it is all too real. Morkai Rathman is a 27-year-old plumber for Miami in Florida,

0:51.5

the Sunshine State. He's Jewish. On Saturday night, using a semi-automatic handgun, he fired 17 bullets at two men who were in a car.

0:56.6

His motive, well, when he was caught, he told the police that he had seen two Palestinians

1:01.8

and shot and killed them. Here is yet another grim example of where the normalisation of

1:09.2

anti-Palestinian hatred leads. This time though, there was a twist.

1:13.7

The two victims were not Palestinian at all. They were in fact Israeli tourists, Ari Rabi and his son

1:20.9

Yarron Rabi. They'd only just arrived on their Florida holidays, probably looking forward to temperatures

1:26.7

in the late 20s.

1:28.3

As it happened, they were not killed. Indeed, they were only lightly injured. But they had

1:33.5

concluded that they had been attacked by an Arab assailant. And so the son posted the following

1:39.4

in the aftermath on social media. My father and I went through an attempted murder with an anti-Semitic background. They tried to murder us in the aftermath on social media. My father and I went through an attempted murder

1:44.6

with an anti-Semitic background.

1:46.6

They tried to murder us in the heart of Miami,

1:48.9

but God is with us, so it didn't work out for him.

1:51.4

I want to say thank you to everyone for the support

1:53.7

and that we don't take it for granted.

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