Anti-Semitic violence surges in the United States as Jews face unprecedented threats
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Driven by hatred and ignorance, anti-Semitic violence in sulfuric acid has become commonplace in American society and more must be done to fight it.
Over the past two weeks, two timid crimes against Jews have occurred on the “safety” of our borders. On June 1, 2025, a group of Americans in Colorado were attacked as they marched to raise awareness of the hostages Hamas held in the past 20 months. When Mohamed Soliman aimed them with temporary flamethrowers and inflammatory devices, twelve Americans, including Holocaust survivors, one of them was a Holocaust survivor.
On May 21, 2025, two young Israeli embassy staff were shot deadly outside a Jewish museum in our country's capital. The victim – a man and a woman who intend to get engaged next week – participated in a “Young Diplomat reception” chaired by the American Jewish Commission when Elias Rodriguez shouted “Free Palestine” and the two shot the two.
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Metropolitan Police Department and FBI officials guarded the periphery near the capital Jewish Museum in Washington on May 22, 2025. Two DC staff members were shot dead after an event held at the capital Jewish Museum earlier that night. (Tom Brenner via Getty Images in The Washington Post)
Sadly, there is nothing new in Jewish hatred. For thousands of years, Jews have been false allegations of greed, deicide and double loyalty – to name just a few. Unfortunately, we are now witnessing the rise of a new anti-Semitism trend, ironically shortly after Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023. That day, Hamas (a foreign terrorist organization designated by the United States) crossed Israeli territory and was murdered 1,200 innocent victims and cited 251 others. 58 of these kidnappers remain in Hamas captivity. Twelve of the forty-five killed were Americans. Four of the kidnapped Americans were dead when their bodies were taken hostages – their bodies remained in Hamas captivity to this day.
After October 7, anti-Semitic rhetoric and violence around the world increased significantly, and American Jews were not spared from experiencing this terrible trend. Statistics from the Anti-Defamation League show that from October 2023 to September 2024, the number of anti-Semitism incidents in the United States reached more than 10,000. This is more than 200% of the year after the tragedy on October 7.
Police are working on the scene after multiple people were injured in Boulder, Colorado on June 1, 2025. (Boulder Police Registration Committee.)
In the last two attacks, the attackers shouted: “Free Palestine”. According to witnesses at the scene of the murder in Washington, D.C., the attackers also shouted: “There is only one solution, the uprising revolution.” Since October 8, 2023, encouraged by some university faculty and praised by Hamas and Iran, thousands of American students have been chanting these exact phrases at protests and rallies across the country.
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For many, these odes are not harmless appeals to Palestine self-determination, nor are they a vision for a two-state solution. For some, the ode to “free Palestine” promotes the notion that the entire Israeli state should be a Palestinian state without Jews – a call for genocide. The ode “Only one solution, uprising revolution”, the first and second uprisings or uprisings in Israel and the West Bank/Gaza Strip in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, or in Israel and the West Bank/Gaza Strip, when hundreds of attacks attacked thousands of Islamists, including suicide attacks, resulting in thousands of attacks. The song means calling for the resurgence of this violence, aiming at Israel and Jews everywhere.
Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old suspect, is accused of shooting two Israeli embassy staff in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 (Instagram/@shinewithisrael)
President Donald Trump vowed to fight anti-Semitism and proved his commitment by signing multiple executive orders, reducing universities that failed to address anti-Semitism on campus, expel visa holders engaged in anti-Semitism activities and creating a multi-institutional task force to solve the problem.
After two recent shocking examples. 7 Anti-Semitism violence is at home, and more measures are clearly needed to combat anti-Semitism in the United States. Hate, lies and threats are rampant on social media, and tech companies are obliged to do more to ensure users comply with online terms of service. Law enforcement must be trained to understand symbols and phrases that are dog whistles of anti-Semitic violence.
An anti-Israel sign “from the river to Palestine” will be free in a protest near Tulane University in New Orleans. The phrase was criticized as a call for undermining Israel. (Credit: Ryan Zamos)
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Hate speech is protected speech, but the forced acts of impending violence cannot be ignored. Universities must ensure that students and faculty comply with campus policies regarding anti-Semitism and must assume responsibility. Emergency action is needed – a more obvious spotlight must be directed at the anti-Semitic poison floods of our society.
Jews in the United States are worried about what will happen next. They went on to ask why they were just to be Jewish. Is this any way for American citizens (or citizens of any country) to live?
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