(JNS) In America and Britain, political violence and attacks on Jews are becoming normalized and even justified.
Many have commented on the fact that Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old shooter from California who allegedly set out to kill US President Donald Trump and administration officials at the White House correspondents’ dinner last Saturday evening, parroted the same demonization of opponents and calls for violence against Trump and his supporters that incessantly emanate from the Democratic Party.
In videoed street interviews in New York after the attack by Allen, young Americans said they definitely thought political violence was justified as “resistance” or protest because government systems were themselves violent or failing the people. One said that while he felt that Trump wasn’t bad enough to be killed, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was.
In London this week, there was yet another attack on British Jews when two men in the heavily Jewish suburb of Golders Green were stabbed. The attacker lunged at an ultra-Orthodox man in his 30s, before launching himself at an...
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