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How to fight the lunatic haters: don’t get scared — get smart

The United States’ ongoing war against Iran is causing American Jews’ already high levels of anxiety and dread to soar even further.

They have good reason for such fears.

Ever since the barbaric Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the Gaza war that followed, Jews in America, Britain and other western countries have been subjected to a tsunami of hatred.

Israel is the only country in the world being singled out for this incitement — and Jews outside Israel are the only people held collectively responsible for a country they don’t live in.

Jews in America and elsewhere have been poleaxed by the staggering normalization of antisemitic hatred and violence.

In everyday conversation, they are aghast to hear facts and evidence about Gaza or Iran simply batted aside by under-informed activists and acquaintances on both the left and the right, all schooled by the online outrage machine.

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Worse still, Jews are being targeted for abuse as if they’re personally responsible for Israel’s alleged misconduct.

I’ve heard of cases in which close friends from........

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