You might be interested in these interviews of three Washington, DC rabbis about the murders of two employees of the Israeli embassy by Brian Bennett at Time. Here’s a snippet from one of them:
On the personal level, just like any other Jewish person in DC, in this country, it’s scary to think that we’d be targeted for being in a Jewish space. As a rabbi, I’m showing up in Jewish spaces on a regular basis. I’m publicly identified as Jewish. So that’s scary.
There’s also feelings of anger. This is the natural outgrowth of hateful rhetoric that we’ve been seeing from all kinds of different groups in this country. Jews know from our history that hateful rhetoric leads to hateful action. You see that playing out last night.
As a rabbi, I’ve got this added burden of trying to make meaning of this moment. I’m not sure what meaning there is. It’s pretty senseless. It’s pretty painful. I can say with confidence that violent political action is not going to move us toward peace. It’s not going to heal anything. That’s the one thing I’m clear on. I’m not clear on a lot else, to be honest.
There’s a lot of similarity among the three reactions. All are, obviously, saddened, shocked, and horrified.
But there are other similarities as well. None wants to talk about the situation in Gaza and all question the sincerity of the Trump Administration’s approach to antisemitism.
As regards GAZA, the focal point of antisemitism today, it’s an historically odd situation having an actively belligerent government on your border whom you supply with food, fuel, water, and medicine.
Hostages were a smart move on the part of the terrorists (or has that designation lost its meaning)?.
If not for them this war would already be history and campus protests would have been too slow to materialize.
Suggestible people can be rallied to any cause and a small percentage to murder.
That’s just a given, Jew or Gentile.