The statement by FBI special agent Matthew DeSarno following this weekend’s hostage -taking situation in Texas that the incident “was not specifically related to the Jewish community” understandably incensed many. But DeSarno , in his ignorant way, was highlighting an important characteristic of many attacks on Jewish communities in this day and age. They’re not old-school pogroms where the local villagers go on the rampage against their Jewish neighbors. Nowadays, more often than not, the attacks aren’t specifically related to the targeted Jewish community; they could have been against any one of thousands of Jewish communities . In the end,...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
