Jewish Erasure and Anti-Semitism Raise Alarm Bells

Dr. Munr Kazmir
5 min readJan 19, 2022

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures omits the Jewish emigres who built Hollywood. The FBI denies anti-Semitism motivated a synagogue hostage-taker. Why?

No Fear: A Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People, July 11, 2021, Washington, DC USA. (photo: Ted Eytan)

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.

Instead, the Jewish community in particular, religious communities in general and every decent, common-sense loving person in America got the FBI trying to mislead everyone into believing anti-Semitism wasn’t a motivation for this terrible crime.

When the immediate outcry became deafening, the FBI abruptly changed tack and admitted that yes, in fact; a terrorist taking hostages in a synagogue on the Sabbath, demanding the release of a convicted criminal nicknamed “Lady Jihad”- who incidentally demanded that no one of Jewish ancestry be allowed on the jury at her trial- was indeed motivated by overwhelming animus towards Jewish people.

The American Jewish community has noticed this sort of thing recently. After the latest dispute between Israel and the forces which hold Palestine, Jewish people from college campuses to online forums were forced to endure a relentless campaign of 1.) blaming American Jews for the actions of the Israeli military and 2.) excusing missile attacks on innocent…

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