Anti-Semitic Attacks Are Happening Across the Globe

Ever since the Oct. 7th attack the world has born witness to levels of anti-Semitic attacks that haven’t been witnessed in decades.  The Oct. 7th attack followed by Israel's armed response to it had led to waves of Jihadist terror attacks targeting Jews to happen all over the globe.  College Campuses have witnessed mobs trapping Jewish students in academic buildings.  Airplanes with Israeli passengers have nearly been stormed by murderous mobs.  Signs praising Hamas and cursing Israel have been seen all across the globe, and it's only getting worse.  The last few weeks have witnessed Jihadists targeting Jews in France, Russia, & the United States.  

Jihadists Burn Derbent Synagogue of Russia

In the wake of the horrific Moscow attack by ISIS that left 145 people dead, the nation now witnessed another horrific Jihadist attack in the district of Dagestan that killed 20 people.  In this Muslim-majority district in Russia Jihadist gunmen armed with automatic weapons attacked a Russian Orthodox Church & killed 66-year-old Orthodox priest Nikolai Kotelnikov.  At the same time other gunmen attached & burned down the Derbent Synagogue.  The Jihadist gunmen then carried out a fierce battle near the Assumption Cathedral in Makhachkala, killing four civilians and 15 police officers.  Five of the Jihadist attackers were also killed.  Many are now beginning to fear that these ongoing Jihadist attacks could trigger another war that was akin to the two previous Russian-Chechen Wars.  

Anti-Semitic attacks have also erupted in France, where the nation has witnessed a 300% rise in anti-Semitic incidents over the past three months.  The most recent attack was that of a 12-year-old French-Jewish girl being attacked & gang-raped by three Muslim migrant teenagers.  Though French authorities tried to keep the nature of the rape under wraps, it was soon revealed that the migrant boys assaulted the young girl because she was Jewish.  They hurled anti-Semitic remarks at and spewed curses on Israel.  

Of the 1676 recorded incidents of anti-Semitic attacks n France, authorities estimated that 13% of these incidents occurred at school.  Sadly, even the nation of the United States has not been immune to this surge of anti-Semitism.  Here in the U.S. radical Palestinian protestors have launched targeted protests for the purpose of intimidating & in some cases, attacking Jews.  The most recent of which was at the Adas Torah Temple in Los Angeles.

On the day that the Palestinian protestors targeted the Synagogue, they were hosting an "Israeli Real Estate Event" to market the selling of potential homes in Israel.  The protestors learned about this event and chose this specific day to launch their campaign to disrupt it.  Protestors swarmed on the Synagogue, chanting "Long Live the Intifada" & "From the River to the Sea Palestine Will be Free."  These are chants that are not calling for a two-state solution, but a single state that would see the annihilation of the Jewish state.  Protestors began heckling, and in some cases throwing projectiles & fists at the Jews who tried to defend their Synagogue.  It was clear that the Palestinian protestors came looking to start a fight.  Rabbi Hertzel decried the action, stating that Jews wouldn't go and protest at a mosque, and Christians wouldn't either, but because they're Jews and because it concerns Israel, attempting to storm a Synagogue is viewed as "acceptable" by the Palestinian activists.  

These global attacks are happening not simply because of the recent Israeli-Gaza conflict, but because Jihadists view Infidels anywhere in the world as being "the enemy" and they are prepared to use any means necessary  to fight their "enemies" no matter where they are in the world.  The conflict is not a regional Middle East conflict, but a global conflict, and no nation can escape it.  We must unify against this Jihadist threat, before it overwhelms all of us. 

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