Obama ignites social media by calling Paris kosher deli attack ‘random’
US President Barack Obama came under attack this week, particularly in the news and on social media circles, after he appeared to have avoided characterizing as anti-Semitic the attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris last month in which the only four victims killed were Jewish.
Questions first percolated after an Obama press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday. But it was his comment in an interview that he gave to Vox on Tuesday in which he said the attack was “random” that drew the most criticism.