The shocking terrorist attack in Australia last week – in which a radicalized Muslim father-son kill team shattered the peace of a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach, shooting and killing 15 innocents – is only the latest in a series of antisemitic incidents around the world that remind us that the world’s oldest bigotry is an issue that, increasingly, demands attention.

President Trump has been paying attention.

Sadly, the rise in antisemitism is not a story confined to one country or one culture. In May of 2024, French police killed an attacker after he set fire to a synagogue and threatened police in Rouen. The following month, Greece’s anti-terrorism police arrested seven people after arson attacks in Athens against a synagogue in May and an Israeli-owned hotel in June. In February of this year, an attacker stabbed and critically injured a tourist at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany. Two months ago, in Manchester, in the United Kingdom, an attacker drove his car into pedestrians and then stabbed innocents outside a synagogue during Yom Kippur, killing two and injuring another three.

It’s not just overseas. We’ve had our share of antisemitic attacks here in the United States, too. For instance, in Washington, D.C., in May of this year, two young Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed as they left an event at the Capitol Jewish Museum. Less than two........

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