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Antisemitic attacks in New York and London spur calls for wider concern over Jewish safety
Recent assaults on Jewish people in Manhattan and north London, along with online blame directed at Jews from both far-right and far-left sources, illustrate a pattern the author describes as a horseshoe of hostility.
A Jewish man was stabbed in the back while doing outreach in Manhattan's Diamond District on October 21, an attack being investigated as a possible hate crime, with a woman arrested and charged. In north London around the same time, three Jewish women, one of them pushing a baby in a stroller, were assaulted in the Stamford Hill area. Police treated those incidents as suspected antisemitic hate crimes, and a suspect was detained by community security volunteers and later charged.
The author of the source piece argues that these incidents are not isolated street crimes but part of a pattern in which visibly Jewish people are targeted while Jewish safety is treated as secondary in the broader political conversation. The piece contends that antisemitism arrives from both ends of the political spectrum at once, and that both extremes treat Jews as the explanation for larger problems.
During France's October student-led cost-of-living protests, which turned into the country's worst street violence in years, Palestinian flags and keffiyehs appeared regularly among the rioters, according to the piece. A monitoring group documented more than 1,300 posts on X blaming Jews, Israel or the Mossad for the unrest, including conspiracy claims about Jewish elites. Far-right accounts declared that "the Jews did this to France," while far-left accounts framed the same events through the language of colonization and resistance.
The piece describes a split in concrete incidents as well. In one recent week, far-right and far-left incidents were nearly equal in number. Swastika graffiti clusters appeared in the United States and Germany, while far-left and Islamist-inspired actions, including graffiti, threats and assaults linked to anti-Israel rhetoric, continued elsewhere. Calls to "globalize the intifada" circulated around the October 7 anniversary in multiple countries, and a network of fake AI "rabbi" accounts has been pushing classic antisemitic money tropes on social platforms.
The author frames this as a horseshoe: on one end, Jews are cast as alien outsiders who secretly run the banks, media and government; on the other, they are cast as white colonizers who do not count as oppressed and whose state should not exist. The piece argues that the outcome is the same in both cases, with Jews positioned as the hidden hand behind whatever crisis is underway.
The piece cites figures from French Interior Ministry data putting antisemitic incidents at roughly 1,320 in 2025, more than half of all recorded anti-religious offenses, despite Jews making up less than one percent of the population. It also states that in New York City Jews have accounted for a majority of confirmed hate crimes. The author says the trend is growing in the United States and warns that observers who watch only one end of the political spectrum will miss the full picture.
Source: foxnews.com
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