Jews Were Murdered Again, And This Is Why No One Can Claim Surprise |
Jews were murdered again.
Not because antisemitism suddenly returned, and not because the warning signs were unclear, but because years of violence were minimized, contextualized, or treated as isolated events until the consequences became impossible to ignore.
The most dishonest response to antisemitic murder is to ask how this could have happened.
It happened because it had been happening all along.
For decades, attacks on Jews were framed as singular incidents, local failures, or the actions of lone extremists. The pattern was visible, but it was rarely acknowledged as such. Each time, the response was caution against overreaction. Each time, the violence was absorbed into broader narratives that diluted its meaning.
What occurred recently did not mark the return of antisemitic violence. It marked the cost of refusing to recognize that it never left.
A Long Record, Repeatedly Ignored
Antisemitic violence did not emerge suddenly, nor did it begin with any single country or conflict. It unfolded across decades and borders, repeatedly failing to trigger sustained alarm or institutional reckoning.
In August 1982, six Jews were murdered at Jo Goldenberg’s Jewish restaurant in Paris. In January 2015, four........