“days are gone where we can rely on law enforcement solely. … We can no longer afford to have security as a luxury”A violent mob organized by a movement that sympathizes with the Marxist terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine descended on a Los Angeles synagogue on June 23, intent on intimidating worshippers.
While the role of Islamic and far-left antisemitism in motivating the attack is obvious, it is not immediately clear why Jewish communities in the United States should be so vulnerable. In theory, the American Jewish community should be more secure and more resilient to such threats than nearly any other religious or ethnic community in this country.