“We’re all feeling this atmosphere of fear and danger”: War fuels rising attacks on Jews and Muslims

Arab, Jewish and Muslim communities have witnessed a rise in threats and violence amid the ongoing violence in Gaza and Israel.

The FBI and DHS warned last week that “the volume and frequency of threats to Americans, especially those in the Jewish, Arab American, and Muslim communities in the United States, have increased, raising our concern that violent extremists and lone offenders motivated by or reacting to ongoing events could target these communities.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has also observed a surge in complaints, including reported bias incidents, with 774 incidents...