Another day, another Muslim terrorist attack. Actually, we had two yesterday. The one at a Michigan synagogue was committed out of anti-Israel rage — and the Islamic mayor of Dearborn Heights chose not to condemn it unequivocally as antisemitic hate, instead attempting to rationalize the act.
In the very first paragraph of Mayor Mo Baydoun’s statement on the attack, he noted that the terrorist was a resident of Dearborn Heights whose family, including his niece and nephew, was killed in an Israeli strike on Lebanon earlier this month. This is the radical Left’s go-to approach: blame the victims as if they had it coming. Attacks on white people? Slavery from 200 years ago justifies it. Attacks on Jews? A war on the other side of the world justifies it.
Did you see Jews attacking Mosques around the world after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack, which saw over 1,200 Israelis killed, and hundreds of others raped, maimed, or kidnapped? No. And if you did, any attempt to rationalize such behavior would be rightfully shot down.
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The problem here is straightforward: anti-Israel propaganda framing the Jewish state’s war against Islamic terrorists as a genocide is being pushed by activists and elected officials in Western countries, and it’s getting people killed. Sometimes it’s Jewish people, like when a Muslim slaughtered two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. Sometimes it’s defenseless children, like when a man caught up in the anti-Israel lies shot two Californian kindergarteners as retribution for “America’s involvement” in the so-called “genocide.”
Baydoun’s statement only adds fuel to this fire. It would have been very easy to leave out any justification for the Islamic terrorist’s attack, and focus solely on condemning the “rising hate and senseless violence.” But to rationalize the attempted mass killing, and to do so before condemning it, is tone deaf, in poor taste, and resignation-worthy.
By attempting to invoke sympathy for Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who rammed the Temple Israel synagogue with a truck containing explosives and a rifle, Baydoun is speaking out of both sides of his mouth. Terrorism is either condemned or it is justified — you can’t “both sides” this issue, even if you (wrongly) disagree with Israel’s right to exist or defend itself against Iran and its proxies.
These attacks are the inevitable consequence of blood libel against the Jewish people, accusing them of swearing allegiance to a bloodthirsty regime hellbent on killing Arab children. People like Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who refers to Jewish people who support Israel in its attempt to defend itself against Muslim terrorism as “pro-genocide,” are responsible for this violence. People who share Hamas’s made-up casualty figures and claim Israel murdered over 60,000 Arabs in Gaza, while defending the terrorists as “resistance” against a so-called “apartheid state,” are responsible too. You can’t demonize Jews to a group of people known for killing Jews, without expecting attacks like this.
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We have already seen skyrocketing levels of antisemitic harassment and violence on campus, but given the usual uptick in terrorist attacks during Ramadan, paired with the U.S.-Israel war against the largest state sponsor of terrorism, one can expect to see more Islamic violence against both Jewish and non-Jewish targets in the near future.
The Left is blaming President Donald Trump and Israel for the attacks on American soil, when all they need to do to find the real culprit is look in the mirror.