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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
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?
he is jewish in the spirit of the revolutionaries of the past century. who created the radiclal left and why am I having to tell this to you mr. fitzgerald i would have assumed david might have mentioned this to you. Now don’t get your knickers in a twist. this assumption by many is based on the personal experiences they had with jewish radicals of the mid century and student’s movement where people like this young man were seen as heroes. were you there ? I was. Ah the Irish never met a radical cause they didn’t find attractive.
I grew up with them running guns out of a beach community in LI. going to communion rail on sundays. Asked my mother about his and some draf dodgers she dated during early days of WWII. She shrugged her shoulders saying they would never fight along side the english. I never understood the seeming disconnect until i saw the quiet man with pubs named “cohan” as was the fabulously talented George M. of theater fame.
“He is Jewish in the spirit of Communists?” Once again, guilty by tainted blood, right? A normal person might say, in specific cases, some communists abandoned the religion their ancestors had suffered greatly to preserve in order to follow the impossible communism dream that turns to a nightmare.
And “the Irish never met a radical cause they didn’t like…”? My first cousin, my Kentucky born Aunt’s daughter, married into an Irish clan, and had 4 children. The Irish clan, nor the children of my cousin are in anyway radical. Successful electrical and computer engineers, and an occupational therapist, but no bomb throwers.
An “assumption by many” is just another way of saying you follow the spew of bigoted ignoramuses.
Sebby sez:
There’s no Jew Hate like my Jew Hate.
The Jew Hate that I know.
Where else can I get that magic feeling?
Everything the Imams will allow
I can’t wait to pull the magic trigger
While I am taking my final bow.
C’mon Achmed…..sing it with Sebby!!!!!!!!
I always knew you were to stupid to figure it out, even when I dropped huge hints. But what can you expect from a moronuslime.
But hey keep racking up those down votes.
And the typical response from Liberal Democrats, Hollwood Celibertis Liberal lawmakers Hogg and his March for Our Lives Useful Idiots is BLAME the Guns the Gun Owners and Gun Makers its always the way Braindead Liberal Democrats do it
Jews are the biggest haters of Jews, and the biggest betrayers of Israel.
No idea if he is Jewish, but I would need more evidence to throw it out. What I do know is he is a liberal lunatic, probably the product of a mentally ill liberal mom, and liberal POS schools and media.
I do not know enough of what this fellow has said but I can say that it is tiresome that almost every thing ends up being compared to the Holocaust.
This does not do anyone any good – least of all the Jewish citizens of the US.
I think it is time for Jewish folks to look at themselves and see what others see.
I have no animus or jealousy for the success of the great many Jews in the USA. For the vast majority it is deserved and a credit to themselves and to the nation. But this Holocaust obsession is every bit as ridiculous as the the black slavery obsession.
Almost forgot our new obsession – gaygaygay activism and transphilia.
It is time to give it a rest.
All of this blathering has the same effect as telling children not to smoke. Nothing makes them want to smoke more than the constant chiding.
We do not want to forget but we also do not need to hear about it every day and to have everything bad compared to it since NOTHING will ever be as bad. There are plenty of things that were just as bad – all of the folks killed in Russia by Stalin – all of the folks killed in China by Mao – the folks in Cambodia by Pol Pot, the list goes on and on. The selectiveness makes it all seem trite and that is not good.
So enough already.
I am a strong supporter of Israel and have read Horowitz since he came on the scene in the ’80s. Judaism is the basis of my culture though I am not a Jew.
I fear the next Holocaust will be brought about by secular jews. A whole army of sorosters.
Obsession never brings about anything worth keeping.
Who’s “we” assling?
First, note that “Hugh Fitzgerald” (the name of the author of the article) is as likely a Jewish name as mine.
Admittedly, there’s a degree of compensatory over-correction here: Westman chose to make his last stand by murdering Catholics, not Jews, so it is indeed clumsy to say that his hatred of Jews was greater.
But Fitzgerald’s main purpose here is entirely valid: the leftist establishment has downplayed Westman’s hatred of Israel precisely because that would most likely lead the public to associate Westman with the left, since the rhetoric matches. So it is well worth pointing out, as Fitzgerald has done here, that in Westman’s surviving writings, his hatred for Israel (and Jews in general) is the most prominent and psychotic strand.
Without this distortion, people who consider themselves to be on the right, like Lauren Witzke of Delaware, would not have been tempted to make the groundless claim that Westman was Jewish, and there would be no posts to that effect gaining over half a million views in 24 hours, and thousands of “likes”.
Forget the Holocaust? Not this goy. Half the world conspired to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth, and lately it has become clear that Jews are not safe even in America let alone anywhere near Israel. And a distressing smattering of the bloodthirsty Jew haters hang around these hallowed parts.
If you are stupid enough to put a lick of stock in “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” then get the hell out of here–find a pub or paddy wagon where any bit of debunked idiocy might be appreciated. Don’t tarnish the superb scholarship of Front Page with your maniacal ramblings. –AGF