Amichai Chikli, Israel's minister of diaspora affairs, said Australian officials ignored warning signs as antisemitism increased in the country.

This year's deadly antisemitic attacks in Washington, D.C., Colorado, the U.K. and at Australia's Bondi Beach by Islamist-inspired perpetrators are not anomalies; they underscore the "new normal" observed in the Western world over the past two years.

Antisemitic violence across the West, specifically that which is carried out by Islamist or Islamist-adjacent nefarious actors, has been spotlighted consistently by academic think tanks, Jewish groups and sympathetic voices since Oct. 7, 2023 — but not enough action has been taken to protect Jewish lives and prevent such violence. As history shows, when Jews are targeted by extremists, it is not long until others are also targeted.

On Oct. 7, 2023, the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas launched an attack on Israel, murdered approximately 1,200 innocent victims, and took 251 hostages. It took 738 days for the last of the living hostages to be freed. One deceased Israeli hostage remains in Gaza to this day.

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FBI agents cordon off the scene outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, D.C., in the early hours of May 22, 2025. Two Israeli Embassy staff members were identified as the two people murdered. (Photo by ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Immediately after Oct. 7, with Iran’s backing, Islamists and their supporters worldwide........

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