When Iranian missiles and drones streaked across the skies of the Gulf this spring, they did not pause to ask who below was Arab and who was Jewish.They struck Abu Dhabi, Manama, Amman and they struck Tel Aviv.
They killed civilians in the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait who were simply going about their lives, just as they killed Israelis sheltering with their children. The regime in Tehran has never made a distinction between us.It is long past time the rest of the world stopped making one.Yet I have watched in disbelief as the response to this war, in too many Western cities and on too many Western campuses, has been a surge of hatred directed not at the regime that started it but at Jews. FORMER VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE: FIVE YEARS ON, THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS STILL POINT THE WAY TO PEACEForeign workers look at a tall plume of black smoke ascends following an explosion in the Fujairah industrial zone on March 3, 2026.
Iran's strikes on Gulf neighbors since February 28, following the US-Israeli attack, forced the UAE to shut its airspace, blindsiding travellers who thought they were headed to one of the region's safest holiday destinations. (Fadel Senna / AFP via Getty Images)Monitoring groups recorded a spike in antisemitic incidents worldwide within days of the war's outbreak.Synagogues, Jewish schools and Jewish charities have been attacked from London to North America, with several plots traced back to fronts of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Think about what that means.The ayatollahs fire missiles at Jews in the Middle East, and their sympathizers answer by terrorizing Jews in the West.This is not only immoral.
It is strategically illiterate.Blaming Jewish communities for Iranian aggression is precisely the outcome Tehran has spent four decades engineering.
Antisemitism is the regime’s favorite export, cheaper than oil and far more corrosive.Every torched synagogue in Europe is a victory the IRGC did not have to pay for.Firefighters are seen tackl...