What I’m Reminded from the Munich Massacre in 1972

60s, and 70s. When people look at pro-Palestinian protests, people may think they’re doing it for themselves. To me, I’ve had enough of the movement because the movement, even though it’s a minority, reminds me of Anti-American protests, which the protestors call themselves peace protests, on college campuses in the 60s.

Many students opposed the U.S.-Japan Alliance. In my opinion, because of the laissez-faire university policy of avoiding the arrests of the students, the student movements in the 60s resulted in nothing but violence. When I see today’s protests, what I see is not about the war, but raw hatred and Antisemitism itself.

As many Jewish people write, 11 Israeli delegates for the Munich Olympic Games were brutally murdered on September 5th, 1972. I remember Caitlyn Jenner speaking about her experience, as she was also a delegate at the Olympic Games.

1972 reminds me of the nightmare that a Japanese man called Fusako Shigenobu ordered the members of the JRA on May 30th, 1972. Three Japanese terrorists committed a mass shooting at Lod Airport. Two JRA members, Tsuyoshi Okudaira and Yasuyuki Yasuda, were neutralized on the spot. There was one survivor, Kozo Okamoto, who survived after murdering 26 innocent civilians.

When I think of this, what I feel is deep sorrow and rage over the justice system that allows her to speak so-called “free speech” to this day to justify what she had done. Why allow free speech that will cause violence? The scary reality is that there are supporters of her, the infamous Japanese terrorist who could avoid the death penalty because of prosecutorial misconduct, and the media features her for many reasons. Her daughter quoted, “The Palestinian resistance won, finally, against Israeli tyranny,” regarding October 7th.

Recently, Japan has had a heated debate over State Department sanctions against ICC judge Tomoko Akane. When thinking of the criminal justice system of Japan, I can’t help wondering why innocent people are sentenced to death, and they’re proven innocent after execution. When I hear ICC judge Tomoko Akane’s words, I can’t help questioning why she can say, “I’m the judge, and I have the right to give sentencing.” Where does this confidence come from when the Japanese criminal justice system needs so many amendments?

While approximately 15,000 innocent civilians who protested against the tyrannical regime were brutally murdered by the IRGC, why does the ICC do nothing about the current Iranian regime, which is severely harming civilians as individuals? Why do I have to bow to a tyrannical, brutal government that is occupying the current Iran?

I still wonder why the ICC judge Tomoko Akane has no question about the Japanese terrorists committing a number of terrorist acts against the U.S. and the West. How can we be so assured that the ICC is a fair organization while a chief prosecutor was found to have sexually harassed his co-workers?

Where is the justice in murdering innocent civilians and injuring over 80 people to the Japanese judge? I do know the mindset of the protestors, claiming the termination of the Holocaust. Maybe, or surely, they have no idea what the Jewish people’s fate over 2000 years has been. Also, it’s truly cynical that these protestors, who are foreign nationals or Japanese nationals, say “Palestine” isn’t a nation or doesn’t represent a race. It’s the British Mandate of Palestine, and “free Palestine” is also a stolen expression, as I wrote in a prior column. It used to mean freedom from British colonial rule in what is now Israel or Palestine.

I still don’t have a clear answer to this day when it comes to taking away people’s lives as a means of terrorist attacks. At the same time, I disagree with and detest the researchers or any individual who claims the justice of 9,11, the Lod Airport Massacre, or many other terrorist attacks by the JRA members in the 70s.