Two years after Hamas’s attack on southern Israel, anti-Semitic violence seems to be on the rise throughout the West. On Yom Kippur, a man drove a car into a crowd outside a synagogue in Manchester, England, then got out and stabbed members of the congregation before he was also killed. On June 2 in Boulder, Colorado, an Egyptian national threw Molotov cocktails at protesters calling for the release of Israeli hostages, killing one of them. Such incidents have grown more frequent as the Israeli military’s deadly operation in Gaza grinds on.
All hate crimes are reprehensible. Supporters of the Palestinian cause should recognize that attacks against Jews are also highly damaging to their movement. That’s true even though such attacks are typically the work of deranged or hyper-radicalized individuals, not organizations, and do not represent the Palestinian national movement as
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