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Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/were-living-in-the-most-worrying-period-for-jews-since-world-war-ii/
The Most Worrying Period for Jews since World War II
(Times of Israel) David Horovitz - Around the world, spiking antisemitism. Vast "pro-Palestinian" demonstrations in the West at which many would deny the only Jewish state its right to exist. Physical attacks on Jews in ostensibly enlightened countries. Jews everywhere more wary than they were in decades about publicly identifying as Jews. This all began after Oct. 7, when the terrorist army of a virulently antisemitic Islamic government invaded Israel from neighboring territory, slaughtered 1,200 people and kidnapped 253 more, and would have kept on killing throughout the country if it could. And it has all intensified since then, because the Israeli government recognized that it needed to ensure the Hamas terrorist government was prevented from pursuing its avowed agenda of slaughtering Jews again and again until Israel is destroyed. We had thought after World War II that, at least in our lifetimes and for a few generations to come, the oldest hatred had been marginalized. We were wrong. No governments in purportedly reasonable countries are endorsing antisemitism and the targeting of Jews. But there is growing empathy in some government quarters for the obsessive and skewed hostility to Israel, and for policies that would weaken its capacity to defend itself against its avowedly genocidal enemies.