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Jewish Erasure and Anti-Semitism Raise Alarm Bells
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures omits the Jewish emigres who built Hollywood. The FBI denies anti-Semitism motivated a synagogue hostage-taker. Why?
The news that several people had been taken hostage at a Colleyville Texas synagogue was met with stunned outrage on Saturday.
Unlike in years past, this hostage crisis- from the outset until the feed was finally cut- was inadvertently televised. Many religious organizations have been streaming their services online for those tuning in at home.
Those tuning into the synagogue’s services that day watched in horror, in real time, as a man burst in and began threatening to kill everyone with a bomb he claimed to have concealed.
News quickly spread on social media. As thousands watched, the hostage-taker raved, threatened and terrorized innocent people.
The stand-off eventually ended with all the hostages safe and the suspect killed by police officers.
Any attack on a religious service is a heinous act. As such, many in the Jewish community prepared for an outpouring of support like the one they received after the Tree of Life terrorist attack in 2018.
Only that didn’t happen.