The New Furies of the Oldest Hatred
by Peter Savodnik from Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Take a good look at who is speaking out against Jew-hate. And who is staying silent.
The furies have been unleashed. They were everywhere you looked these past two weeks, though you won’t read about them much in the papers.
We saw them on Thursday, when pro-Palestinian protesters threw an explosive device into a crowd of Jews in New York’s Diamond District.
We saw them on Wednesday, when two men were attacked outside a bagel shop in midtown Manhattan.
We saw them on Tuesday, at a sushi restaurant in West Hollywood, when a group of men draped in keffiyehs asked the diners who was Jewish, and then pummeled them. And in a parking lot not far away, when two cars draped in Palestinian flags roared after an Orthodox man fleeing for his life. And in the story of the American soccer player Luca Lewis, cornered by a band of men in New York demanding to know if he was a Jew.
Then there was the caravan careening through Jewish neighborhoods in North London carrying people screaming: “Fuck the Jews! Rape their daughters!”
And the rabbi, outside London, who was hospitalized after being attacked by two teenagers.
And the demonstrator in Vienna shouting, “Shove your Holocaust up your ass!” — the crowd of young people, mostly women, cheering.
[…] How did this happen? It’s inane to try to superimpose a tidy, monocausal explanation on all of the above.
Read also: After Ceasefire, Israeli Conflict Shifts to U.S. by Tony Perkins, Family Research Council
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