https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-31-23...Analysis: New wave of antisemitism threatens to rock an already unstable world
Analysis from CNN's Stephen Collinson
History is flashing warnings to the world.
Outbursts of antisemitism have often been harbingers of societies in deep trouble and omens that extremism and violence are imminent.
So the wave of global hatred directed against Jews — intensified by Israel’s indiscriminate response in Gaza to horrific Hamas terrorist murders of Israeli civilians on October 7 — should not just be seen as a reaction to the Middle East yet again slumping into war.
It is also a reflection of destructive forces tearing at American and western European societies, where stability and democracy are already under pressure.
The Hamas attacks — a pogrom against Jews that killed 1,400, mostly civilians — have initiated a sequence of events that have left Jewish people around the world feeling threatened. And now that the Israeli government has sought retribution through airstrikes and operations in Gaza targeting Hamas, the scenes of carnage in Palestinian communities threaten to further drain public sympathy for Israel abroad and, in some cases, contribute to an atmosphere that risks worsening harassment of Jewish people.
In the United States there is a climate of growing fear.
Jewish day schools have canceled classes. Synagogues have been locked. Social media has pulsated with hatred against Jews, leaving a community that can never escape its historic trauma yet again wondering where and when it can ever be safe.
Read Collinson's full analysis.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/31/politics/antisemitism-unstable-world-analysis... It was not intensified by Israel's response. It was intensified by Hamas' initial success at slaughtering Jews. It made Muslims the world over come out to celebrate in the streets.