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throughout Europe and the Muslim world. In the United States, Jews remain the most-targeted religious group, according to FBI hate crime data, all while antisemitism rises year-onyear. In 2024, there was a 5% increase of antisemitic incidents in 2024 compared to 2023, and a 140% increase in 2023 compared to 2022.

Where is our national conversation? Where are the chants of Jewish Lives Matter, rather than the sudden renovation of “All Lives Matter”? Why can we not condemn antisemitism while also condemning so-called Islamophobia (real or imaginary), particularly when many antisemitic attacks are carried out by Muslims? Where is the usual brutal honesty regarding the race and religion of the perpetrators when the victims are Jews? Where is the national outcry against specific hate? Where is the condemnation of those who fuel the fires of this hate?

When victims are Black or Asian or Hispanic or Muslim, people (correctly) have no qualms condemning violent hate, and the media won’t hesitate for a moment to delve into the identity or background of the perpetrator.

But when Jews are victimized again and again and again? Well, they’re Jews after all, so there must be an explanation. Sure, they were killed by someone screaming, “Free Palestine,” but perhaps the national conversation needs to be on the evil of Israel? Calling for the death of Jews is all about context, as the heads of our elite institutions would say.

Give me a break.

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