Following three attacks on synagogues in Toronto last month, the US has seen at least four terrorist attacks in the last three weeks: a Senegalese supporter of Iran shot nightclubbers in Austin, Texas; ISIS terrorists threw three bombs which failed to detonate in New York City at a crowd of anti-Islam protestors; a Hezbollah family member attacked Michigan’s oldest Jewish community with firearms and explosives which he failed to detonate and a man shouting “Allahu akbar” attempted to murder an ROTC class at Virginia’s Old Dominion university, killing one.

Two synagogues/Jewish schools in Rotterdam and Amsterdam and one in Liege, Belgium, were the subject of unsuccessful bombings.

In the UK around 10 suspected Iranian spies were arrested for spying on Jews in London.

Two of the American attacks came after the Trump administration leaked to journalists counter-intelligence indicating Iran had sent a “go signal” to “sleeper cells” in North America. Security was increased in Los Angeles for the Academy Awards over the weekend.

by Geoff Vasil

Even if president Trump declares mission accomplished, as many Americans are urging, the war with Iran won’t end. The new hidden imam ayatollah has issued official if non-credible instructions to keep the Hormuz chokehold closed in order to strangle world oil supply. Raising on a busted flush, Iran’s terrorist regime thinks by dictating to its neighbors and attacking them it can hold onto power until US public opinion comes to their rescue.

The problem with that is the neighbors and the world can’t afford to play that game. France seems to be the only country willing to say so out loud, sending naval vessels whose ultimate goal seems to be the Persian Gulf. The new doctrines of drone warfare have scared off the world’s largest navy from conducting safe-conduct escorts as they did back in the 1980s in response to threats from the same regime.

The only sane response to Iran’s gambit is to fight it out along the Iranian coast, from Basra to Hormuz, targeting drones and missile launchers. The neighboring Gulf states have never been fans of the Islamic Republic, but now almost the entire world has an interest in protecting the oil supply militarily.

by Holly Evans, Friday, March 6

The four men, an Iranian national and three dual British-Iranian nationals, were arrested on Friday morning

Four men have been arrested on suspicion of aiding Iran’s intelligence service by spying on locations and individuals linked to the Jewish community in London.

Detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing London said the men, one Iranian national and three dual British/Iranian nationals, were detained shortly after 1:00 A.M. on Friday at addresses in Barnet, Watford and Harrow as part of a pre-planned operation.

The Metropolitan Police said the men arrested were 52, 40, 55 and 22, with searches ongoing at their addresses.

Six other men aged 29, 39, 42, 49 and two aged 20 were arrested at the same location in Harrow on suspicion of assisting an offender.

Gunmen opened fire on a crowd of around 2,000 Jews gathered at a park next to Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach as the ceremony to light the first Hanukkah candle on a public menorah was about to commence Sunday evening. According to eye-witnesses three gunmen firing rifles aimed into the crowd firing a total of more than 50 rounds, leaving twelve dead at the scene with another 50 wounded later brought to hospital.

Australian Federal Police and the country’s intelligence agency labeled the massacre a terrorist attack within 3 hours of the mass shooting.

Cell phone video shows a passer-by disarming one attacker at the base of a large palm tree lining the parking lot adjacent to the park. Another man pursued the disarmed attacker and threw what looking like a large stone at him. A second attacker on a pedestrian walkway leading from the park to a pub and restaurant section of North Bondi appeared to fire at the two passers-by and in the general direction of the Hanukkah celebration.

AFP told a press conference they had no evidence of a third shooter beyond eye-witness accounts but were looking into a possible third shooter. A car at the scene was found to contain mulptiple home-made explosive devices. Footage from the cell phone and a name released later by police seem to show the attackers were Middle Eastern, perhaps Arab or Lebanese.

Rabbi Eli Schlanger of Sydney was killed at the scene. He leaves hejind five children. One eye-witness said a child was murdered, but New South Wales Police said they had no such information, and that one child wounded in the attack was taken to hospital.

NEW YORK —The World Jewish Congress has welcomed the remarks of Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday unequivocally condemned anti-Semitism during his general audience at the Vatican.

Addressing thousands of faithful the Pope said: “All my predecessors have condemned anti-Semitism with clear words,” adding, “I too confirm that the Church does not tolerate anti-Semitism and fights against it, on the basis of the Gospel itself.”

WJC president Ronald S. Lauder praised the Pope’s message calling it “an extraordinarily positive and deeply meaningful gesture.”

“At a time when Jews are facing the greatest persecution since the Second World War, the Pope’s message carries profound fraternal meaning,” Lauder said. “Gestures like this inspire us to strengthen the bonds between Jews and Catholics, and to work together for a world of greater co-existence among religions, in the pursuit of peace.”

The Pope’s statement comes as the Catholic Church marks the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the landmark declaration of the Second Vatican Council which transformed Jewish-Catholic relations and established a foundation of mutual respect and dialogue.

Full statement here.