This week, in Colorado, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a group of Jews marching peacefully on behalf of hostages held by Hamas. The attacker shouted, “How many children have you killed?” and “We need to end Zionists” as he hurled fire at Holocaust survivors and Jewish children.
In Washington, D.C., two Israeli embassy staff members were gunned down in cold blood. In Paris, the Holocaust museum was defaced. In London, a Jewish business was vandalized with red paint and smashed windows.
Each attack happened in a different country. The perpetrators didn’t know each other. And yet, every Jew I know understands how deeply they’re connected.
This is what Jewish anxiety looks like in 2025. Not just fear of a lone extremist – but fear of a global pattern no one wants to name. A time when violence against Jews isn’t just ignored, but politically inconvenient to acknowledge.
The attacker in Colorado wasn’t reacting to silence. He was reacting to noise. To slogans. To lies. To the viral fabrication that 14,000 Palestinian babies would be starved in 48 hours – a claim with no evidence, pushed by some of the most trusted news outlets in the world. By the time fact-checkers caught up, the lie had triggered an already radicalized man, preparing firebombs in America.
