ISIS Calls for Jewish Attacks Around the World

Terrorist group ISIS has called for violent targeting of Jewish people worldwide in response to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.

On October 7, Hamas led the deadliest Palestinian militant attack on Israel in history. Israel subsequently launched its heaviest ever airstrikes on Gaza. According to the Associated Press on Friday, the Gaza Health Ministry said that 4,137 Palestinians have been killed and over 13,000 wounded. More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, the AP reported.

Published on Friday in Arabic in Al-Naba, a weekly magazine by ISIS, it advocates for violence and murder against Jewish people worldwide. The terror group has a history of systematic persecution of religious groups, including Muslims.

Issue 413 contains an infographic titled, "Practical ways to support Muslims in Palestine," which encourages attacks on Jewish people and Israel, with the goal of "returning its land to the House of Islam again," a translation from Arabic to English completed by Newsweek has found.

The publication lists three ways Jewish people can be targeted, divided into different sections: military, media and prayer.

A translation done by Newsweek's Tom O'Connor found the publication claims that "prayer is the weapon of the believer, and it is a lethal weapon if it fulfills its conditions and etiquette. It accompanies all previous forms of support and is in no way indistinguishable from them, so do Muslims must not forget to pray."

It also outlines how its supporters can help ISIS military efforts, including "targeting Jewish neighborhoods in America, Europe and the rest of the world," and "attacking the Jewish and Crusader embassies with burning and vandalism," the Newsweek translation has found.

It also promotes "targeting Jewish temples (synagogues) spread everywhere" as well as attacking "Jewish economic interests spread throughout the world."

Another section, titled "media support," recommends that its supporters educate "generations that the battle with the Jews is purely religious and ideological, not patriotic or nationalistic," and that the "battlefield" is not limited to Palestine and "includes all places of the Jewish presence."

Following Hamas' October 7 attack, security has been increased in major American cities and countries globally, with law enforcement taking measures to prevent acts of antisemitism and violence against Jewish people.

Antisemitic attacks have been on the rise in the West since the conflict between Israel and Hamas broke out. Police in London have reported a staggering 1,353 percent rise in antisemitic crimes between October 1 and October 18, according to a Friday report by The Independent, a British newspaper.

Meanwhile, Islamophobic attacks have also been reported in America. Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year old Palestinian-American boy, was fatally stabbed on October 14 in Plainfield Township, Illinois. His mother was also seriously injured in the attack by their landlord Joseph Czuba. Czuba, who was upset about news coverage regarding the conflict with Israel and Hamas, has been charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, two counts of a hate crime and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

Following the boy's death, Palestinian and Muslim leaders joined together to condemn coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

"Let's be clear: This was directly connected to the dehumanizing of Palestinians that has been allowed over the last week by our media, by our elected officials who have lacked the moral compass and lacked the courage to call for something as simple as de-escalation and peace," said Illinois state Representative Abdelnasser Rashid, the first Palestinian-American elected to the state's general assembly, according to Democracy Now.