Two Jews Were Murdered. Social Media Cheered.

Two Israeli Embassy staffers were executed on American soil, in Washington, D.C., outside the Capital Jewish Museum. And much of the internet? It cheered. This is what “Globalize the Intifada” looks like.

Instagram posts reported on the killings. But scroll to the comments, and you will see the disease: wave after wave of antisemitic celebration, justification, mockery, and conspiracy.

• “Great news!!!”
• “Two down. Only 50,000 to go.”
• “They deserved it.”
• “Good. They were Zionists.”

This is what the globalized intifada looks like. It is not theory. It is murder. And it wears a smile. To be Jewish in 2025 is to live in a world where your murder is not a tragedy, but a meme. Hate is now mainstream. It wears a keffiyeh; it marches on campuses. It trends on TikTok. It lingers in the comments section. It pulls the trigger in D.C. Jewish death is now a sport. Trend. Algorithm. Virtue signal.

And yet, as always, the Jewish dead are not afforded innocence. Instead, their murderers are handed excuses. Their deaths are relativized, minimized, buried beneath a digital landslide of whataboutism:

• “What about Gaza?”
• “What about the children?”
• “What about apartheid?”

We are not seeing the rise of antisemitism. We are living in its normalization. It’s exactly what every Jew has been warning you about for decades.

This isn’t an escalation. This isn’t an isolated event. This is permission. It is now acceptable, morally, socially, and digitally, to shoot Jews if you have the right slogan. This is not the rise of antisemitism. This is its arrival. It’s comfort. It’s celebration.

If the world can scroll past that, then it’s the world that’s broken. And I will not stay silent. Not when two innocent people are murdered on American soil, for being Jews.