They’re Coming After Us, Part 2

Last month, I sought to detail the multifront assault on American Jews that erupted almost instantaneously after the Hamas massacre of October 7 in an article called “They’re Coming After Us.” Jewish students were attacked on some of the country’s college campuses, both rhetorically and literally—as when a group in a building at Cooper Union in New York City’s East Village had to be locked inside the library to keep a large mob from assaulting them. Jews were attacked on the streets, as when 65-year-old Paul Kessler was murdered by an Arab computer-science professor in a suburb of Los Angeles. Jewish institutions were vandalized and threatened, as when a man showed up with a gun outside a synagogue in Albany. Jewish businesses were subjected to boycotts, as when the Philadelphia restaurant Goldie was beset by demonstrations. And all this happened as a response to an unprecedented rampage against Jews in Israel.