Ethics

MRFF Reveals Anti-Semitic Assault at Ft. Benning

By Ed Brayton

Jason Leopold has an article at the Public Record about a Jewish soldier being harassed and beaten to the point of being hospitalized by fellow soldiers at Ft. Benning in Georgia.

A U.S. Army soldier was brutally beaten by other soldiers in his platoon earlier this month following two incidents in which a drill sergeants allegedly used anti-Semitic slurs to address the soldier.

Pvt. Michael Handman, 20, who has just completed his fifth week of basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, was recently released from a hospital where he was treated for a concussion, facial wounds, and severe oral injuries following the attack, according to the boy's father, Jonathan Handman.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 10, 2008 (boomark / email).