Has Iran-backed terrorism reached London?

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When a synagogue is firebombed or a Jewish school is targeted in Europe, the instinct is to reach for a familiar explanation: the rising tide of anti-Semitism, the radicalized lone wolf, the unhinged fringe. That explanation is no longer adequate. What is unfolding now in the UK and across Europe is not a spontaneous eruption of hatred. It seems now to be a coordinated campaign by Iran designed to make Jewish life feel existentially unsafe.

The group behind this campaign calls itself Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyyah, a previously unknown organization that emerged this month claiming a bomb attack outside the Synagogue of Liège on March 9, an arson attack on a synagogue in Rotterdam and an explosive attack on a Jewish school in Amsterdam. The group has also claimed an attack in Greece, though that claim remains unverified.

Joe Truzman is a senior research analyst at FDD and an editor at FDD’s Long War Journal.