What do these have in common?
(1) Elderly Jews in Boulder Colorado sprayed with flaming gasoline
(2) A young D.C. Jewish couple stalked and murdered with multiple shots in their backs as they crawled away
(3) Pennsylvania governor’s home invaded, burning down the room where the governor, who is Jewish, just hosted Passover Seder
Each attacker shouted "Free Palestine!"
As a rabbi on the UC Santa Barbara campus from 2009-2023, I felt like a canary in a coal mine. “Globalize the intifada," "From the River to the Sea," "Zionism equals Genocide," and other catch-phrases promoted on college campuses became culturally acceptable, poisoning the minds of a generation of progressive activists. We warned that words demonizing Jews, Zionists, and Israelis would inevitably have fatal consequences. The anti-Semitic violence we are witnessing is as chilling as it is unsurprising.