Antisemitism has always been around, sometimes less, sometimes more. Less after WWII, simmering underground as even more ardent antisemites were too embarrassed to admit what they are. As we all know several last decades are considered the Golden Age of Jewry at least in the US, though the several last years have been marked by increasing antisemitism and anti-Zionism.

The cause? Critical race theory and intersectionality had labeled Jews as white supremacists. Anti-Israel movement was skillfully organized and manipulated by terrorist groups such as Hamas, and funded through student groups and US universities directly and indirectly by Qatar.

Anti-Israel movement has erupted into avalanche of hatred and incitement of violence against Jews and Israel on October 7, 2023 disrupting instruction and campus life on many US campuses with hatred spilling among general population. The several last weeks have gotten even worse for Jews either here or in the world, and I am afraid it is just a beginning.

Particularly worrisome is a cluster of attacks in the US seemingly not tied to a single group, but unified by hatred of Jews: Pesach arson of home of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, murders of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, Israeli Embassy staffers, in the Capitol vicinity in Washington, DC, and attack on peaceful rally for Israeli hostages where at least 12 people were seriously injured and burned by Molotov cocktails on June 1.

These attacks are very troubling: they are going........

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