In yet another Islamic terrorist attack in recent days, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali rammed his truck through the doors of the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan. With security officers eliminating the threat, and the temple’s preschool evacuating unscathed, it’s miraculous that the physical damage was limited to the property and one injured, and heroic, guard.
Had Temple Israel not been protected by private armed security, like almost all Jewish institutions in America these days, this could have been a different story.
But then something happened that is both more familiar and more damaging: the outpouring of virtue-signaling condemnation from the very people responsible for stoking this resurgence of antisemitism we are witnessing in the West.
“The reports coming out of West Bloomfield are horrifying,” wrote Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), the Palestinian American representative of Michigan’s 12th Congressional District, home to Ghazali. “I am praying for the safety of everyone at Temple Israel. No one should face violence anywhere, especially in a place of worship.”
This is the same Tlaib who views Israel as a racist apartheid state, engages in blood libel, and calls for Israel to be erased from the map. She even blamed Israel for the attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, and was crowned “Antisemite of the Year” by StopAntisemitism, beating Hamas’s leader.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) reposted Tlaib’s “horrifying” response, despite accusing Israel of hypnotizing the world, praying that Allah would “awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel,” and arguing that any American support for Israel is motivated solely by “Benjamins.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) declared that “antisemitism is disgusting” and that his “heart is with the Jewish community in Michigan today.” This is the same Newsom who randomly tried to woo the far Left by describing Israel as an apartheid state, and also committed to being a guest on Hasan Piker’s show.
Piker said “America deserved 9/11,” gleefully interviewed Houthi terrorists on his Twitch stream, and said, “It doesn’t matter if rape happened on Oct. 7. It doesn’t change the dynamic for me.”
“This is heartbreaking. The Jewish American community should be able to live and worship in peace. Antisemitism and violence have no place in America.” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) posted, copying Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D-MI) statement almost word-for-word. Khanna’s own history of Jew hatred includes responding to a “hit piece” on his Epstein-fueled conspiracy theorizing as written by a “Netanyahu apologist” motivated by Khanna calling “what happened in Gaza a genocide.” Just days ago, two men were violently beaten in Khanna’s own district for the crime of speaking Hebrew in public. And, less than an hour before expressing his broken heart, Khanna announced that he was “proud to stand” with Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Piker’s show.
Platner said that “antisemitism is on the rise, and it must be stopped,” despite having had a tattoo of the infamous Nazi “death’s head” skull worn by the SS. Mamdani, meanwhile, described the attack as a “horrifying” act of “antisemitic violence.”
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This is the same Mamdani whose wife liked dozens of “radical anti-Israel” posts, including those that inverted the Holocaust and celebrated the pogroms of Oct. 7, 2023. This is the same Mamdani who hosted terrorist sympathizers to his home immediately after another Islamic terrorist attack in New York City, and was introduced at a Staten Island Mosque by a terrorism supporter who called on Hamas to strike Tel Aviv. And this is the same Mamdani who has refused to condemn “globalize the intifada.”
What does “globalize the intifada” mean? It means radical Islamic terrorists trying to kill Jews, including Jewish children, across the globe. Thanks to Mamdani, Tlaib, Omar, Newsom, Khanna, Platner, and so many others, the intifada is now globalized.
Ian Haworth is a syndicated columnist. You can find his work on Substack.
