Anti-Jewish Terror Will Continue

This didn’t just happen. It was made to happen. For years, my esteemed colleagues and I were smeared, defamed and marginalized for speaking out against Muslim Jew-hatred and it’s root cause. Brilliant scholars like Robert Spencer, Bat Ye’or, Ibn Warraq, Wafa Sultan, Dr. Andrew Bostom were besmirched, their considerable reputations ruined for speaking truths about Islam.

We were cancelled, banned, disappeared from social media.  Speaking engagements were canceled. Cowardly Jewish groups caved to the Islamic/left machine. Book deals dried up. College speaking engagements were dangerous, sometimes violent until there were none at all. Even CPAC banned us.

There were assassination attempts made on our lives. Jihadis opened fire on our free speech event in Texas, a Boston beheading plot was thwarted,  the media shrugged.

The leftist/Islamic apparatus controlled the narrative and only one side was allowed. Theirs. And they march in lockstep. When you only hear one side, there is no other outcome. Islamic Jew hatred is a religious imperative under Islam. It is commanded. How many know that? How many Americans know the contents of the last letters written by the 9/11 terrorists?

Unless something drastically changes, anti-Jewish terror will only get worse.

This week:

• COLORADO: HORRIFYING ISLAMIC TERROR ATTACK, Muslim Mohamad Soliman Sets Fire to Jewish Children, Families, Flamethrows Pipe Bombs at Rally for Hostages
• Michigan Muslim Pleads GUILTY in Plot to Open Fire and Kill Jewish Preschoolers at Daycare Center at Synagogue
• Jewish Couple Shot Dead Outside Capital Jewish Museum in D.C.
• Muslims and Leftists Cheer D.C. Murder of Jewish Couple

Anti-Jewish Terror Will Continue Unless Leaders Get Their Act Together

Police should crack down on extremists whenever they have a legal basis for doing so.

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By: Tal Fortgang, City Journal, June 2, 2025:

Two staffers from the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., were murdered in cold blood last week. A young radical chanting “free Palestine” was arrested after allegedly gunning them down outside an American Jewish Committee event at the Capital Jewish Museum. The victims were a young couple on the cusp of engagement, whose bright future together was extinguished in an instant by a fanatic who apparently wanted to “globalize the Intifada.” That’s the phrase chanted at anti-Israel demonstrations—referring to the terror campaigns that killed thousands of Israelis decades ago—and scrawled on statues and campus buildings. Consider the Intifada globalized.

The organizations behind these demonstrations have made no secret of their bloodlust. The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a revolutionary group with which the apparent murderer was associated, plasters its name on signs that read “when people are occupied, resistance is justified.” That’s a euphemistic defense for Hamas slaughtering Israeli civilians, an effort the killer sought to “bring home” and “escalate” in solidarity. Outfits like Unity of Fields, which takes its name from Palestinian terrorist groups’ call to action, have joined PSL in various demonstrations and committed vandalism, property destruction, and other acts of civil terrorism.

These groups typically limit their activities to boundary-pushing demonstrations and mass petty crimes, but they have made clear that they see no reason to stop there. “Killing zionazi diplomats is unambiguously anti-imperialist,” Unity of Fields posted on X. The organization “answers the calls from the Palestinian resistance to escalate & besiege the embassies.”

The embassy shooting, in other words, has changed nothing about these organizations except the brazenness of their members. Civil terrorism, unpunished, inevitably drops the modifier, because its logic has always been the logic of terror.

This amounts to the old story about disorder and impunity, applied to domestic terrorism. The Broken Windows theory of policing, pioneered by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling, articulated the commonsense idea that visible signs of disorder signal to bad actors that lawless conduct won’t be punished. Police, on this reasoning, need to establish order to prevent petty crimes from mushrooming into more serious ones.

Terror sympathizers know that they can sow chaos without fear of punishment. Leaders in our cities and on campuses have been extremely reluctant to treat these organizations as the malign actors they are. Students in radical organizations are rarely if ever expelled—much less prosecuted—for smashing up buildings, trespassing, and harassing their Jewish and Israeli classmates. Members of radical anti-Israel groups that block roads, deface property, and even commit assault rarely face prosecutions for their crimes, and face prison time more rarely still. Their leaders have not been investigated or prosecuted for organizing such crimes.

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As a result, these groups have good reason to believe that they can “escalate” with impunity, sending foot soldiers to commit heinous crimes without putting the whole enterprise at risk. For the ideologues who become terrorists, it’s a sacrifice worth making for a cause they believe stands a chance of bringing down Israel and the West.

Escalation will continue unless leaders get their act together. Federal and state authorities must launch investigations of PSL, Unity of Fields, and all their partners, to examine their role in organizing the “small” crimes that presage bloodshed. Unity of Fields and other groups say that they are “answering the call,” presumably of terrorist organizations. What is the nature of that relationship? Do domestic groups exchange funds or coordinate with foreign terrorist organizations? Are those foreign groups providing them with “material support,” in violation of federal laws? These are questions worth pursuing.