A 39-year-old Jewish man was shot in the back while walking to a synagogue in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood on Saturday morning, in what some community members allege may be a hate-driven attack.The incident, reported by Yeshiva World News, occurred around 9:35 a.m. in an area with a significant Orthodox Jewish population. Witnesses recounted that the shooter, reportedly a 23-year-old man, yelled “Allahu Akbar” as he exchanged fire with responding officers.
At about 0:42 of the Ring camera video, you see a man emerge from between houses in the heavily Jewish neighborhood, shoot at the responding officers and civilians helping the Jewish man who was shot, and then scream something that could very well be "Allahu Akbar."
From all indications, Jews are now being hunted down in America.
Chicago's hate crime statistics show that there have been 80 anti-religious hate crimes in the city so far this year. 70 of them - 87.5% - have been against Jews.
Here is the chart of antisemitic hate crimes in Chicago over recent years.
They have gone up from 6 in 2020 to 70 in 2024 - so far. That is over a 1000% rise in antisemitic crime in Chicago.
The pattern of the over 80% of antireligious hate crimes targeting Jews is consistent in every major city that keeps such statistics.
In New York so far this year, I count 276 out of 325 antireligious hate crimes being against Jews - 85%.
In San Francisco, every single anti-religious hate crime reported this year has been against Jews, and since 2022 87.5% of them have been against Jews.
In Los Angeles, the most recent statistics I could find were 2022, and 83% were anti-Jewish.
Nationwide, according to the FBI, the percentage is slightly lower - about 75% of all antireligious hate crimes in 2023 were against Jews.
The Kamala Harris campaign is touting the US National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism that they are taking credit for in appealing to Jewish Americans to vote Democratic. Yet antisemitism has skyrocketed in the 17 months since the strategy was unveiled. What, exactly, has it achieved? What metrics are they using to measure the effectiveness of this strategy? Because from the raw numbers, things are getting far worse.
If Harris wants to take credit for the strategy, then she must take responsibility for its failure.
There are at least four very specific sources for antisemitism in America today. There is Black antisemitism (which can be subdivided as well), Muslim antisemitism, far-Right antisemitism, and progressive antisemitism that calls itself anti-Zionism. The US National Strategy only addresses the far-Right version specifically - in fact, it generally agrees with the "progressive" falsehood that fighting antisemitism is part of a larger battle to fight all forms of bias.
It cannot even conceive that Jews can be victims of bias from other groups that themselves suffer bias.
If the Chicago shooter is indeed a Muslim - Chicago police have not released his name, and he is in critical condition from the shootout - the National Strategy has done nothing, literally nothing, to stop him and people like him. Adding additional Holocaust education in schools and speaking out against antisemitism is all well and good but when the Muslim community sees these kinds of initiatives, they could easily backfire and make Muslims think Jews control the US.
A significant percentage of violent antisemitic attacks in America are done by Muslims. But the National Strategy, instead of identifying them as a group that must address antisemitism, instead only identifies them as victims of more generalized and ill-defined "hate" along with Jews.
In fact, despite the strategy document, even right-wing antisemitism is worse than it has been for decades. People with millions of followers are spreading the most insane and hateful antisemitic conspiracy theories and getting lots of attention that fall below the radar of the media and most politicians. This trailer for an antisemitic film being released has been viewed millions of times.
It is a hodgepodge of Nazi-level antisemitic conspiracy theories that make it look like religious Jews are behind pornography, not to mention 9/11. But notice also how it places side-by-side Third Reich caricatures of Jews with far-Left language and themes, such as its anti-Israel content and the its very title of "occupied."
Just as with antisemitism on the Left, this is no longer fringe. It is being broadly disseminated among pro-Trump podcasts which are now replete with Rothschild conspiracy theories and libels about the Talmud. All of this is being spread by millions yet flying under the radar.
Far-Right antisemitism has cross-pollinated with far-Left antisemitism. And just as Black, Muslim and progressive antisemitism is being largely ignored by Harris devotees, far-Right antisemitism is being largely ignored by Trump fans.
The danger to Jews in America is real. We are literally being hunted down like animals. Politics is the excuse used to ignore it. And Jews are the ones who are paying the price.
UPDATE: The name of the shooter in Chicago is Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi. Which means, yes, he screamed Allahu Akbar.
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