Miami Shooting: Jewish Man Mistakenly Shoots Israeli Tourists, Exposing Mutual Prejudice
Mordechai Brafman, 27, faces two counts of attempted second-degree murder after allegedly firing seventeen shots from a semiautomatic handgun at a vehicle in Miami Beach. Brafman, who claimed to have targeted Palestinians, mistakenly shot two Israeli tourists, Ari Rabey and his father. Despite the victims’ reported anti-Arab social media posts, the Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for federal hate crime charges, citing the incident as an example of anti-Palestinian sentiment. Brafman remains in custody at the Miami-Dade correctional center.
John Q. Hosedrinker