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"Let us begin with a brief exchange on GB News, confirmed this week as the TV arm of #NigelFarage’s #ReformUK. Following an attack on a #synagogue last week in #Michigan, in which a #gunman drove a car packed with #explosives through the entrance[...], a pundit on the channel sought to clarify what the attacker actually meant by his actions. “This was an #Israeli temple,” she explained. “It was aligned with #Israel.”

By way of evidence, she cited the name of the synagogue – #TempleIsrael – apparently unaware that #Jews have referred to themselves as “the people of Israel” for millennia, long before there was a state of that name, and that there are, for that reason, countless #synagogues in the #US called Temple Israel. No, for her, the Michigan house of worship, with its on-site school where more than a hundred children were in lessons that day, was a de facto #embassy of the Israeli state and therefore an understandable, if not legitimate, target."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/20/attack-uk-us-europe-netanyahu-jews-violence-antisemitism

Hezbollah commander identified as brother of Michigan synagogue attacker

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/03/15/idf-eliminates-hezbollah-commander-brother-michigan-synagogue-attacker/

#JVP Detroit expresses love and care in wake of horrible attack on Temple Israel
https://mailchi.mp/c72f6dc4cdc9/stopstarvinggaza-6751479?e=7085bb33b2

#JewishVoiceForPeace
March 13, 2026

We are saddened in the wake of a horrible attack on a #synagogue in W.Bloomfield. We are sending love and care to #Jewish communities throughout #Michigan, including our own members who were raised in #TempleIsrael and have family who attend there.[...] Jewish communities, like all people, deserve to be safe in our houses of worship and schools.

The person who reportedly carried out this attack was a man whose siblings, niece, and nephew were just murdered in #Lebanon by #Israeli bombs. This is grief upon grief. War always begets trauma and further violence. It is clear that the Israeli government’s atrocities make all of us-including Jews-less safe. #Israel carries out brutal wars and #genocide against families and children, then falsely claims these war crimes are done in the name of #Jews. This leads to more #antisemitism.

#Palestine

Came back online about an hour ago to catch up on news. Big mistake.

If I read one more g-d headline that starts with some version of "but the #TempleIsrael assailant recently lost relatives in Lebanon due to the war" I am going to Lose. My. Shit.

What the hell do American #Jewish spaces and American Jewish toddlers have to do with the war? NOTHING. They were targeted bc they were #Jews.

I am so fucking angry. #antisemitism

A man with a rifle who crashed into a large #Michigan #synagogue in what federal officials say was an attack had lost 4 family members in an #Israel airstrike in his native #Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.

Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, a naturalized #US #citizen born in Lebanon, was killed by security after ramming into #TempleIsrael in West Bloomfield Township near Detroit & driving down a hallway in a vehicle that then caught fire….

#ViolenceBegetsViolence
https://apnews.com/article/michigan-synagogue-attack-fbi-investigation-58331bad2c28e78c6c99a4a764637873

Man in Michigan synagogue attack lost family members in Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, official says

A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials say was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.

Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, was killed by security after ramming into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township near Detroit.

An Israeli airstrike killed 4 people in the eastern Lebanon town of Mashgharah on March 5, Lebanon’s state agency and the Lebanese Health Ministry reported.

A local official in Mashgharah told AP that Ghazali’s two brothers and a niece and nephew were killed at their home in the airstrike just after sunset as they were having their fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

AP / https://ghostarchive.org/archive/mxDnG #TempleIsrael #Israel #Antisemitism

🖤 Educators, if you are looking for ways to respond to the March 12 attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan in your classes, we have trauma-informed resources to support you and your learning communities.

https://journeysinfilm.org/teach-anti-bias-education-with-film/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=current+events&utm_term=west+bloomfield&utm_content=link1

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