(A Press Release from Tikkun Magazine on May 3, 2010)
Press Release: From Tikkun Magazine
Contact: Will Pasley 510 644 1200
Rabbi Lerner's Home Attacked by Right-Wing Zionists
Berkeley, CA May 3, 2010
Release date: May 4, 2010
Berkeley police today confirmed that the attack on Rabbi Lerner's home late Monday May 2nd or early morning Monday May 3rd was in fact a crime and was being investigated. This followed a week in which Rabbi Lerner received several verbal death threats on the phone and lots of hate mail to him and to Tikkun.
The attackers used a powerful form of glue to attach posters to his door and around the property of his home attacking Lerner personally, and attacking liberals and progressives as being supporters of terrorism and "Islamo-fascism." They posted a printed bumper sticker saying "fight terror--support Israel" next to a caricature of Judge Goldstone whose UN report on Israel's human rights violations in its attack on Gaza last year has been denounced as anti-Semitic and pro-terror by right-wingers in Israel and the U.S. The caricature has Goldstone talking about his being kept from his grandson's bar mitzvah, and the caricature of Rabbi Lerner responds by saying "any enemy of Israel is a friend of mine."