Samantha Woll, 40, was the president of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue.

A Detroit synagogue president was found fatally stabbed outside her home Saturday morning.

Samantha Woll, 40, led the congregation of Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue. The synagogue confirmed Woll’s death Saturday in a statement writing, “We are shocked and saddened to learn of the unexpected death of Samantha Woll, our Board President.”

“May her memory be a blessing,” the statement continued.

Authorities said a 911 call was made to Woll’s home early Saturday, reporting an individual lying on the ground unresponsive. Police discovered multiple stab wounds on Woll’s body and found a trail of blood leading to her house, where they believe the crime occurred.

An investigation is underway. At this time, the motive for the crime remains unknown.

  • halfempty@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Far right white supremacist killings of Jews is far more prevalent in the US than Muslim killings of Jews. My first suspects would be among the extreme right.

    • CrapConnoisseur@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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      9 months ago

      And the current geopolitical climate could give the far right cover for committing antisemitic crimes. Particularity for crimes less serious (and therefore less well investigated) than murder, they can commit hate crimes and blame it on the Arabs.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Out of morbid curiosity… are the skinheads rooting for the Israelis or Hamas? Usually they don’t like brown people, but they also don’t like Jewish people.

      • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
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        9 months ago

        Many Israelis are brown people, about 20 % are Palestine and there are also Muslims in Israel. Hating Israel sadly isn’t an easy litmus test for Nazis.

        I guess the most Nazi standpoint on Israel-Palestine conflict is to rub one’s hands.

      • marty_relaxes@discuss.tchncs.de
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        9 months ago

        I realize this isn’t your point but I feel the need to point out that skinheads are not nazis - it is unfortunately a very well working project of cultural appropriation by the racists.

        In the scene racist skinheads are mostly referred to as boneheads, a term which I think makes much more sense.

      • Brutticus@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        In general, they have different things they perceive and admire about the two. Please know, I’ll be using some of their words. In Hamas, they see people battling “Degeneracy” and “Jewish Influence.” There is an admiration for Israel, as an theocratic apartheid ethnostate. Seriously, at protests, Ive seen them carry Israeli flags before. Mostly, though its a party. “The subhumans” are fighting, one will be destroyed and one will look bad in the eyes of the international community.

    • Im14abeer@midwest.socialEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Ordinarily I’d agree with you, but Occam’s razor doesn’t. Metro Detroit is home to the largest Arabic community in the country. I believe Jewish/Arab relations are pretty sound there, but given the current circumstances…

    • mrpants@midwest.socialEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Far right arab supremacists also exist. Impossible to rule them out especially given the timing and circumstances.

      • vivadanang@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 months ago

        place your bets place your bets will it be a nazi, a klansman, a jihadist, death by cop (never discount the possibility) or just some other random murderer? AAAAAMERRRRRICA THE LAND OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          9 months ago

          Right? Stabbings are a strictly American phenomenon, as is racially or religiously motivated violence and just violence in general. Don’t see any of those happening anywhere else in the entire world, people in other countries have pillowfights at most. America wake up, everywhere else is a utopia while you slide into a dystopia.

            • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              9 months ago

              I see you’ve never played expanded rock paper scissors. Grenade beats gun beats knife, so Sweden still beats America but at least America (and CZ) beats the rest of europe.

        • superguy@lemm.ee
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          9 months ago

          Forgetting the biggest cause of murders for women in the US: it was someone they knew, probably a lover.

    • TheFrirish@jlai.lu
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      9 months ago

      I know we’re speculating here but imo given what’s going on between Palestine and Israel I would be inclined to believe the latter rather than the former.