Police in Virginia questioned an Israeli-American boy after he wrote in a middle school report that he “wished all Americans were dead.” Yishai Asido, 11, was questioned by police, along with his parents, after he wrote in a Veterans Day report for school, “I wish all Americans were dead and that American soldiers should die.”
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