The World Is Battling a Wave of Hate Crime Unleashed by Israel-Hamas War
11/30/2023 12:14
Hamas’s assault and the Israeli military response in Gaza is fueling antisemitism and Islamophobia faster than governments can react.
Three college students of Palestinian descent out walking over the Thanksgiving break were shot in Vermont. A synagogue in Berlin was hit with Molotov cocktails. And a mosque in Ottawa was smeared with excrement.
Reports of crimes targeting Jews, Muslims and Arabs have risen in the US, Germany, Canada and beyond since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and the Israeli military’s retaliatory operation in Gaza.