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Source: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/jews-in-america-are-under-attack/
Jews in America Are Under Attack
(Spectator-UK) Jonathan Sacerdoti - In Boulder, Colorado, elderly Jews were torched alive in a park. They wore red T-shirts bearing the names of hostages seized by Palestinian terrorists over 600 days earlier. Some carried Israeli flags. They were attacked with a flamethrower and firebombs - the third targeted attack on American Jews in three months. At a shooting range in South Florida, I met Jews who on October 7, 2023, chose to arm themselves for the first time - a story I heard over and over as I met with members of the Jewish community, from lawyers to PR men to mums and dads. They're training. Securing homes, temples, and schools as if a war has already begun. Because this week, we learned it has. But even as Jews in America are being attacked with increasing regularity, we have not seen the birth of a "Jewish Lives Matter" campaign. No nationwide reckoning. No marches filling the streets. The continued targeting and killing of Jews does not appear to summon the same political urgency or cultural solidarity as other forms of hate. That silence is only broken by the continued death chant of "Free Palestine." Just hours before the Boulder attack, major media outlets rushed to report that Israeli tanks had opened fire on starving Palestinians at an aid distribution site in Rafah. The claims were unchecked. There were no videos. No evidence. Hours later, drone footage emerged showing a very different reality: quiet crowds, no gunfire, no chaos. Yet the tale of Israeli cruelty had already circled the globe. Increasingly, the slogan "Free Palestine" is declared while slaughtering Jews. It is shouted outside temples and adorns placards. Like "Allahu Akbar" before it, it has become the cry beneath which Jews are murdered in the street. There is no vision of coexistence behind the chant. It points toward yet another theocratic terror state. American Jews are learning what their coreligionists in Europe and in Israel have known for some time: that hatred of Jews is never defeated, never rational, and never far away.