"Zvi Kogan had been missing in the United Arab Emirates for days , and now Israel has announced the violent death of the 28-year-old rabbi. Kogan, who holds both Israeli and Moldovan citizenship , was murdered, the offices of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said in a joint statement on Sunday. It was a case of "anti-Semitic terrorism."… "At the moment, the information regarding the circumstances of the death is still relatively vague," terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler told the Tagesspiegel. "The investigations are now in full swing." We have to wait for the results… The extremism researcher, who is senior director of the international Counter Extremism Project, explains: "Iran has announced that it will respond to the last Israeli military attack on the country in October. This response can look many different. International attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets are always possible as well.””
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers.
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