Honest-to-God false flag attack on a US synagogue

A truly bizarre tale of how a frequent contributer to a extreme left wing, conspiratorial publication was arrested vandalizing a synagogue and trying to frame it on Ukraine's notorious Avoz battalion

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A woman accused of spray-painting antisemitic graffiti at the Woodward Avenue Shul Jewish Center in Royal Oak last week has been charged, police said. Randi Lucille Nord was arraigned Wednesday through 44th District Court in Royal Oak, records show. She was charged with ethnic intimidation, a felony carrying a maximum penalty of two years in prison and a $5,000 fine, and malicious destruction of a building, a misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of 93 days in jail and a fine three times the amount of the destruction, police said. Magistrate Donald Chisholm ordered her to have no contact with the Shul or Rabbi Mendel Polter. A swastika symbol and the letters AZOV were spray-painted on the side of the building April 27. The word "azov" means “leave” in Hebrew but the letters also are linked to a pro-Nazi Ukrainian militia.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...i/70181046007/

A bit about the publication in which she had worked:

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MintPress News (MPN) is an American far-left[1] news website founded and edited by Mnar Adley (née, Muhawesh) which was launched in January 2012.[2] It covers political, economic, foreign affairs and environmental issues. Editorially, MintPress News supports Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and the governments of Russia, Iran, and Syria.[3][4] It opposes the governments of Israel and Saudi Arabia,[5] and reports geopolitical events from an anti-Western perspective.[6] In one contentious article, MintPress News falsely asserted that the Ghouta chemical attack in Syria was perpetrated by rebel groups rather than by the Syrian government.[4] Described as a conspiratorial website,[7][8] MintPress News publishes disinformation and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, according to researchers at Rutgers University and others.[9][10] MintPress News was a major media domain that spread disinformation about the White Helmets, a Syrian volunteer organization.[11] The site has been accused of regularly publishing pro-Russian propaganda.[10] The source of MintPress News's funding remains unknown.[4] MintPress News is headquartered in Minnesota, United States.[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPr..._News_Staff-56

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