Odette Youssef

And this means that we're seeing an increase in dehumanizing content, threats, and extremist propaganda on mainstream platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.

Thanks, Scott.

Well, the synagogue attack in Michigan involved a naturalized Lebanese-American citizen who NPR has learned lost two brothers last week to an Israeli strike in Lebanon, and his parents and sisters-in-law were also wounded there.

Security at the synagogue shot and killed him.

Nobody else died in that incident.

Earlier on that same day, a gunman shot and killed someone at Old Dominion University in Virginia.

He also died at the scene.

There is still more to learn about this person, Scott, but he did serve time in prison after pleading guilty about a decade ago to providing material support for ISIS, the Islamic State.

And then last weekend, there was an attempted attack on Islamophobic protesters outside the mayor's mansion in New York City.

An 18-year-old and a 19-year-old have been charged, and they allegedly made statements effectively saying that they were inspired by ISIS.

I think it's important to look at each individual instance.

It certainly feels like the war on Iran is elevating uncertainty here.

In the case of the attempted attack outside Gracie Mansion in New York, though,

There's no indication that it ties directly to grievance about the war.

In the case of the Old Dominion attack, we simply don't know enough right now to say.

And in the attack on Temple Israel outside of Detroit, officials have not stated a motive.

I think what we can absolutely say is that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has provided a new opening that foreign terrorist groups are exploiting.

Here's Michael Masters.

He's national director of the Secure Community Network, which does threat monitoring and security training for the Jewish community across North America.

Yes.