Last Sunday, a radicalized Egyptian immigrant attacked a peaceful group of Jewish men and women walking through Boulder, CO in a weekly march to call attention to the plight of the Israeli hostages in Gaza.

The terrorist shouted, “End Zionists” and “Free Palestine” as he lit people on fire with molotov cocktails—injuring 16 people, several quite seriously.

As bad as this incident was, it could have been much worse. When captured, the man was found to have another 16 bottles of flammable liquid he didn’t get to throw. He also said he’d tried to get automatic weapons, but because he had overstayed his visa, that wasn’t possible.

This was the third major incident in less than two months: A terrorist tried to burn down the PA Governor’s Mansion on Passover, and two weeks ago, two young staffers from the Israeli embassy were gunned down in cold blood as they left a diplomatic event.

It seems like random attacks on Jewish people are becoming more and more common—and more and more accepted. While the FBI immediately labeled the Boulder attack terrorism, most of the news media avoided doing so for hours and hours. What was his motive, they asked. Listen to the video. He told you exactly what his motive was, as well as the fact he’d planned this attack for over a year.

Given what we’ve seen over the last 20 months since Hamas brutally attacked Israel, these attacks are shocking but not surprising. Jewish students have been threatened and attacked on college campuses, synagogues and Jewish centers have had to cancel events and harden security, and now terror attacks are happening in random places across the country on a regular basis.

Even worse, has been the response—or lack thereof—of the American public. If this were any other ethnic group, we’d likely see outrage and action taken to prevent further attacks of this nature. In this case, we are too often met with silence.

To those who stand up to support us, we say thank you—your efforts are appreciated. To those who have not bothered to ask the question, let me tell you the answer. No, we are not OK. And we won’t be OK until this type of terror is no longer tolerated.

Here’s the point many people seem to miss. The motto of these jihadists and terrorists is Death to Jews, Death to Israel, Death to America, perhaps not necessarily in that order.

So if we’re not OK, you’re not OK either.

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