Possibly a murder - Daniel J. Kliman

One of the pro-Israel activists in the san Francisco Bay Area has been found dead. And it looks very suspicious.

http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2008/12/boruch-dayan-ha-emes.html


From that blog:
Daniel J. Kliman was found dead yesterday at the bottom of an elevator shaft in the building where he was taking Arabic classes. He is believed to have fallen down the elevator shaft on Tuesday evening 11/25/08.There were no classes last week. There were very few people in the building at the time. The defective elevator was "secure".It is still unclear how this happened.


The blogowner of that site (at the back of the hill) also put his suspicions in the comments:
At this point, several members of our group have doubts about it being an accident.The reasons for doubting that it was entirely accidental are as follows:
*Dan was known to the other side, his picture was posted on several sites identifying him as a Zionist "conspirator" and one of the lead-activists in the Bay Area.
*He had received several death-threats over the years - he was known by name and address.
*The pro-Palestinian side has not infrequently either used violence or threatened to do so - Dan was assaulted several times.
*The building where he was found was where he was taking Arabic classes; there were NO classes that week.
*Several members of the other side also take Arabic classes - that is one of the few schools in the area where Arabic is taught, and there is a constantly changing roster of Israel-haters studying Arabic there.
*The defective elevator had been secured so no one could enter it.


Well. This is perfectly horrid news, and I do not doubt for A MOMENT that foul play was involved. After what the students for justice in Palestine have been doing at U. C. Berkeley, and what with the vicious hatred of Israel which is so common here, anything at all is possible. So a Jew studying Arabic must have absolutely seemed like a spy to the pro-Palestinians who would take Arabic classes. Their paranoid hatred probably took over at the moment they found him alone, or they could've planned to do it all along, and just waited for the perfect opportunity.