Antisemitism, Islamophobia and ‘feeling unsafe’

As protests against Israel’s war in Gaza and debates about antisemitism continue, a question arises: What is the difference between “feeling unsafe” and “being unsafe”?

Conflating the two, as is often happening, creates a dramatically false equivalence that has infected the discourse about Israel and Palestine.

A look at the actual casualty toll in America resulting in bloodshed since Oct. 7 is instructive: one six-year-old Muslim boy stabbed to death in Detroit; three Palestinian...