Being a white-passing Jew in America is not a ticket out of the cycle of danger. As I said earlier, a majority of religiously targeted hate-crime offenses are committed against Jews, which has been the case every year since the FBI started reporting hate-crime statistics in 1995. After the Hamas attack of Israelis on October 7th, 2023, antisemitic events increased by 388 percent. In October 2023, FBI director Christopher Wray testified to a Senate panel that antisemitism terror threats were reaching “historic levels.”
