After attempted murder of Jews in the United States, the Palestinian Movement cannot turn a blind eye

Speaking of the latest wave of deadly violence against American Jews quotes the magazine The Atlantic an observation Posted author Ian Fleming: Once is a coincidence. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a declaration of war.

Last Sunday were injured twelve people In Boulder, Colorado, when they participated in a demonstration for Israelis held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. The arrested perpetrator is an Egyptian asylum seeker in the United States who, according to court documents, published on Monday must have planned the act for a year with the motive to « kill all Zionist people ».

The 45-year-old perpetrator roared « liberate Palestine » when he directed a fireplace against the protesters and wounded, among other things, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, reported in the Washington Post. The action is investigated as terrorism, hate crimes and attempted murder and took place the night before the Jewish holiday Shavuot.

The anti -Semitic act Owns several similarities to the attempted murder of the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro. In April this year, on the first evening by the pesach, a 38-year-old man molotov cocktail was constructed by beer bottles through the window at Shapiro’s residence in Harrisburg. Furniture and art caught fire while Shapiro with family slept upstairs.

The governor survived – unlike Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, the Israeli diplomat couple who were shot dead outside the Jewish Museum in Washington DC at the end of May by a man who screamed « liberate Palestine ».

The American Palestinian Movement is wide and multifaceted. But activists who are in the first stage around the United States often occur with a flaming empathy with affected Gazabor and an equally strong disgust against US support from Israel’s warfare. They sometimes seem to regard American university campus as actual war scenes, a kind of enclaves to the Gaza Strip.

It has contributed To a climate where American Jews experience threats of a kind previously associated with immigrant -dense parts of Europe and the Middle East. American Palestine friends – many of whom are Jews themselves – Have sometimes shrugged the shoulders to internal investigations at the elite university Harvard and Columbia, which point to examples where the war protests switch into anti -Semitism, in threats to Jews.

After the murder in Washington and the attempted murder in Pennsylvania and Colorado, it is much more difficult. Now the war is in place, in the United States, and difficult to control.