SIGN OF THE TIMES: Jewish Girl Beaten Unconscious on London Bus

JTA reports that a 12-year old Jewish girl, a passenger on a London bus, was beaten unconscious by four other girls, while three boys stood guard during the attack to prevent interference. The attackers asked the victim if she was Jewish before they attacked her. A friend of the victim, who was wearing rosary beads, was not harmed.

Following the pattern of the El Al shooting in L.A., the Jewish Community Building shooting in Seattle and the automobile attack in front of the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco, public officials in London and the media will no doubt determine that the perpetrators were a deranged group of youths, not terrorists, and that there is no evidence that anti-Semitism was a motive.