attacks on synagogues

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The synagogue has often been the site of antisemitic violence and the object of anti-Jewish rhetoric. In early Christian literature, the synagogue was regarded as the foe of the new faith.Rutgers, Leonard V. "The Synagogue as Foe in Early Christian Literature." Follow the Wise”: Studies in Jewish History and Culture in Honor of Lee I. Levine (2010): 449-468. Violent attacks on synagogues featured prominently in the Nazi German effort to persecute the Jews of Europe.Meng, M. (2024). Why Destroy a Synagogue? A Reflection on Hitler’s Metaphysical Antisemitism. German History, 42(2), 214-230. And the destruction of synagogues is also a feature of the activities of various terrorist and Islamist groups.Barsky, Y. (2016). Terrorist Incidents and Attacks Against Jews and Israelis in the United States 1969-2016. Community Security Service, 3.Isakhan, Benjamin. "How to interpret ISIS’s heritage destruction." Current history 117, no. 803 (2018): 344-349.

Overview

= Nineteenth century =

The 1834 Safed pogrom, involving the mass violence against Jews perpetrated by local Arabs and Druze, featured attacks on local synagogues and the desecration of synagogue ritual objects.Dovid Rossoff, [https://books.google.com/books?id=RjFoPWto6VYC&pg=PA149 Safed: The Mystical City.] Feldheim Publishers, 1991 {{isbn|978-0-873-06566-5}} pp. 149ff: The Druze Massacre of Safed {{cite book|author=Martin Sicker|title=Reshaping Palestine: from Muhammad Ali to the British Mandate, 1831–1922|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TWBxUi5fVS0C&pg=PA13|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-96639-3|page=13|quote=However, the insurrection soon lost its original purpose and turned into bloody rioting and excesses directed against the Jewish population. The rioting was most severe in Safed, where assaults and vandalism forced many Jews to flee to the nearby village of Ein Zetim or relocate to Jerusalem. During the attacks, some 500 Torah scrolls were destroyed in Safed alone. The rioting continued until a contingent of Druze troops from Ibrahim's army arrived to halt the violence. The governor of Safed and thirteen of the ringleaders were taken captive, summarily tried, and put to death.}} Thirteen synagogues, along with an estimated 500 Torah scrolls, were destroyed in the course of the attack. Attacks on Jews hiding in synagogues also took place.Menachem Mendel Baum. [http://benyehuda.org/boym_m/korot_haitim.html Korot Ha-Eytim] (Hebrew), Vilnius, 1839.

= Twentieth century =

File:Interior view of the destroyed Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, Berlin.jpg (1938)]]

In the twentieth century, a major event involving the destruction of synagogues was the Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, occurring on November 9–10, 1938. The event was a pogrom against Jews carried out in Nazi Germany by the Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces, with participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilians. A major feature of this event was the widespread destruction of over a thousand synagogues.{{Cite book |last=Gilbert |first=Martin |author-link=Martin Gilbert|title=Kristallnacht: prelude to destruction |date=2006 |publisher=Harper Press |isbn=978-0-00-719240-3 |oclc=62760612 |series=Making history series |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/kristallnachtpre0000gilb_t9l7 |url-access=registration}}{{rp|13, 15, 118}} Of the 93 synagogues and Jewish prayer houses in Vienna, the Stadttempel was the only one in the city to survive World War II, as it could not be destroyed without setting adjoining buildings on fire. All of the others were destroyed by the SA assisted by local authorities.{{cite news |last=Bagley |first=Chris |title=Austrian Jews have yet to regain numbers |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=November 9, 2008 |access-date=25 January 2025 |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/09/MNDV13PL4V.DTL}}{{cite web |language=de |title=Novemberpogrom |work=geschichtewiki |publisher=City of Vienna |date= |access-date=25 January 2025 |url=https://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Novemberpogrom}} Similar destruction occurred throughout Austria, carried out by the Austrian SA with synagogues destroyed in Eisenstadt, Linz, Salzburg, and resort towns.{{rp|32–33, 53}} Other notable attacks on synagogues from this period include the 1941 Riga synagogue burnings, an event that took place during the first days of the Nazi German occupation of the city of Riga, the capital and largest city in the country of Latvia. Many Jews confined in the synagogues died in the fires. Many other anti-Semitic measures were launched at the same time, ultimately followed by the murder of the vast majority of the Jews of Latvia.Max Kaufmann, Churbn Lettland: The Destruction of the Jews of Latvia. That same year, in Paris, on the night of October 2–3, 1941, explosive devices were placed in front of six synagogues causing damage to them.[https://books.google.com/books?id=gFmLCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT201&lpg=PT201 Kevin Passmore & Chris Millington , Political Violence and Democracy in Western Europe, 1918–1940, 2015, {{langx|fr|link=no|qui citent, dans la note 35, le travail non-publié mais en cours de G. K. Brunelle et A. Finley-Crosswhite}}, Betrayal: Bombing Synagogues on the Streets of Paris: Igniting the French Holocaust/Shoah.] The affected synagogues were Synagogue des Tournelles (in the Jewish Marais district), Synagogue de la rue Copernic (16th arrondissement of Paris), Synagogue Nazareth (3rd arrondissement of Paris), Synagogue de la rue Pavée (4th arrondissement of Paris), Montmartre Synagogue (18th arrondissement of Paris), and the Grand Synagogue of Paris (9th arrondissement of Paris).

Following the Second World War, notable attacks on synagogues include the 1949 Menarsha synagogue bombing that took place on August 5, 1949 in the Jewish quarter of Damascus, Syria. The grenade attack claimed the lives of 12 civilians and injured about 30. Most of the victims were children.Yazīd Ṣāyigh. [https://books.google.com/books?id=emh-Kn2g9u8C&dq=damascus+synagogue+1949&pg=PA72 Armed struggle and the search for state: the Palestinian national movement, 1949-1993], Oxford University Press US, 1997. pg. 72. {{ISBN|0-19-829265-1}}. A simultaneous attack was also carried out at the Great Synagogue in Aleppo.Itamar Leṿin. [https://books.google.com/books?id=pxgonnuybEgC&dq=aleppo+pogrom&pg=PA167 Locked Doors: The Seizure of Jewish Property in Arab Countries], Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. pg. 175. {{ISBN|0-275-97134-1}}.{{Cite web |title="synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Damascus. The explosion occurred at the time when Syria was" - Google Search |url=https://www.google.com/search?q=%22synagogue+in+the+Jewish+quarter+of+Damascus.+The+explosion+occurred+at+the+time+when+Syria+was%22&btnG=Search+Books |access-date=2023-04-18 |website=www.google.com}} Other bombings from this period include the 1957-58 USA synagogue bombings. A series of violent attacks that took place between November 11, 1957, and October 14, 1958. In total, there were five bombings and three attempted bombings of synagogues, seven in the Southern United States and one in the Midwest United States. There were no deaths or injuries. These events took place during an increase in antisemitic activity in the United States, both nonviolent and violent, after U.S. Supreme Court established that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional with Brown v. Board of Education in May 1954.{{cite journal |last1=Kellman |first1=George |title=Anti-Jewish agitation |journal=The American Jewish Year Book |date=1959 |volume=60 |pages=44–52 |jstor=23602919 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23602919 |access-date=8 January 2024}} (See also, 1958 Atlanta synagogue bombing). That same decade saw the 1956 Shafrir synagogue shooting in Kfar Chabad, Israel. The attack which was carried out by Palestinian terrorists on April 11, 1956.{{Cite book|last=Morris|first=Benny|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xC_uIe9G2FYC&pg=PT481|title=Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1998|date=2011-05-25|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-78805-4|language=en}} Three Palestinian attackers who crossed into Israel from Egypt attacked the study hall of a synagogue while it was full of children and teenagers.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4-4rAAAAIBAJ&sjid=d2cFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1822,851596|title = Kentucky New Era - Google News Archive Search}}{{Cite web|title=The tragedy in Israel: The correct response|url=https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-tragedy-in-israel-the-correct-response/|access-date=2022-02-11|website=blogs.timesofisrael.com|language=en-US}}{{Cite book|last=Chesler|first=Phyllis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CR5-LLFO4oUC|title=The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It|date=11 January 2005|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-0-7879-7803-7|pages=50|language=en}} Six people (five children and a youth worker) were killed.

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Attacks on synagogues continued in the subsequent decades. In the case of the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing, which occurred on October 3, 1980, a bomb exploded outside Rue Copernic synagogue, a Reform synagogue, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. The synagogue was full of approximately 320 worshippers.{{cite news |last1=Vaux-Montagny |first1=Nicolas |title=Lone suspect in 1980 Paris synagogue bombing goes on trial |url=https://apnews.com/article/paris-synagogue-bombing-trial-hassan-diab-d74d5896172ac424645b6b6c263f181d |access-date=6 April 2023 |publisher=Associated Press |date=2023-04-03}}{{cite news|title=Lebanese-Canadian charged over 1980 Paris synagogue bombing|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/lebanese-canadian-accused-of-1980-paris-synagogue-bombing-extradited-to-france/|accessdate=6 April 2023|agency=AFP|publisher=Times of Israel|date=15 November 2014}} Four people were killed in the blast.{{cite news |title=4 decades later, new trial of alleged 1980 Paris synagogue bomber offers victims opportunity for closure |url=https://www.jta.org/2023/04/06/global/4-decades-later-new-trial-of-alleged-1980-paris-synagogue-bomber-offers-victims-opportunity-for-closure |access-date=6 April 2023 |publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=2023-04-06}} According to investigators, the bomb had been set to detonate after prayers concluded and as worshippers were leaving the building. However, the service had started several minutes late and therefore there were few people in the vicinity of the bomb. The 1981 Vienna synagogue attack was a terror attack that occurred on August 29, 1981, in the Stadttempel of Vienna, Austria. The attackers were two Palestinian terrorists of the Abu Nidal Organization.{{Cite web|url=https://arab.news/6ubhn|title=At least 4 killed, including gunman, in Vienna attacks|date=2 November 2020|website=Arab News}} The mass shooting and grenade attack killed two people and wounded 18 others attending a Bar mitzvah service.[https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/22/world/around-the-world-palestinians-get-life-in-austrian-slayings.html Palestinians get life in Austrian Slayings], The New York Times, 22 January 1982{{Cite web|url=https://www.jta.org/1981/08/31/archive/terrorists-strike-in-vienna-kill-two-wound-18-in-an-attack-on-a-synagogue|title=Terrorists Strike in Vienna; Kill Two, Wound 18 in an Attack on a Synagogue|date=31 August 1981}} Two months later, the 1981 Antwerp synagogue bombing occurred on October 20, 1981, when a truck bomb exploded outside a Portuguese Jewish synagogue in the centre of Antwerp, Belgium, in the diamond district of Antwerp. The explosion took place shortly after 9:00 AM on a Tuesday morning, a few minutes before Simchat Torah religious services were to begin.{{cite news |last=Lewis |first=Paul |date=21 October 1981 |title=2 Killed By Bomb At Antwerp Synagogue |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/07/world/jewish-targets-recent-attacks.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126060117/http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/21/world/2-killed-by-bomb-at-antwerp-synagogue.html |archive-date=26 January 2018}} Three people were killed and 106 wounded.{{cite news | title = Jewish Targets: Recent Attacks | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/07/world/jewish-targets-recent-attacks.html | work = The New York Times | date = 1986-09-07 }} The following year saw the Great Synagogue of Rome attacked by armed Palestinian terrorists on October 9, 1982. A 2-year-old toddler, Stefano Gaj Taché, was killed in the attack, while 37 civilians were injured. The attackers used a combination of hand grenades and sub-machine gun fire.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/10/world/terrorists-raid-rome-synagogue-boy-2-is-killed-and-34-are-hurt.html|title=BOY, 2, IS KILLED AND 34 ARE HURT|date=10 October 1982|work=The New York Times|accessdate=5 March 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=H0oaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UScEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5592,2357388|title=Spokane Chronicle - Google News Archive Search|accessdate=5 March 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CVQgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1dEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1407,5725938|title=Daytona Beach Morning Journal - Google News Archive Search|accessdate=5 March 2016}} This period also saw the 1986 Istanbul synagogue massacre, which occurred on September 6, 1986, at the Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul's Beyoglu district, and resulted in 22 deaths.{{Cite web |title=Istanbul's Neve Shalom Massacre: How the 'Oasis of Peace' Turned Into a Scene of Savagery |url=https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/09/08/istanbuls-neve-shalom-massacre-how-the-oasis-of-peace-turned-into-a-scene-of-savagery/ |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=Algemeiner.com |language=en-US}} Reportedly, a pair of terrorists entered on the men's side of the mechitza and opened fire on the crowd with machine guns. They then doused the bodies of the dead and injured with gasoline, which they lit on fire.{{Cite news |last=Miller |first=Judith |date=1987-01-04 |title=The Istanbul Synagogue Massacre |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/04/magazine/the-istanbul-synagogue-massacre.html |access-date=2022-05-22 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |title=Bır 6 Eylül 1986 Özetı: Barış vahasında duran saat, delik sandalye ve kara mermerde yanan yıldız |url=https://www.salom.com.tr/arsiv/haber/100278/bIr-6-eylu-1986-ozetI8232baris-vahasinda-duran-saat-delik-sandalye-kara-mermerde-yanan-yildiz |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=Şalom Gazetesi |language=tr}}

The following decade saw the 1991 Sydney synagogue attacks, a series of events occurring between January 26 and March 28, 1991. Five synagogues in Sydney, Australia, were targeted by arsonists. Four synagogues were significantly damaged and one attack thwarted by a security guard. The attacks resulted in the permanent closure of one synagogue, the injury of the security guard.Rutland, S. (2006). Negotiating Religious Dialogue: A Response to the Recent Increase in Anti-Semitism in Australia. Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society, 17-30.Jones, J. (2006). The Jewish Community of Australia and Its Challenges. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.{{cite news |title=Sydney's synagogue fires 1991-93 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/261924158 |access-date=14 December 2024 |work=The Australian Jewish News |issue=4 | volume=62 |edition=Melbourne |date=30 September 1994 |location=Melbourne |page=4}} In 1999, the Sacramento synagogue firebombings, an attack on three California synagogues, occurred on June 18, 1999. The attackers were white supremacist brothers Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams who were later involved in other hate crimes and subsequently arrested for the murder of a gay couple.{{cite news |last1=Einhorn |first1=Elissa |title=20 years later, Sacramento synagogue bombings still hurt |url=https://www.jweekly.com/2019/06/14/20-years-later-sacramento-synagogue-bombings-still-hurt/ |accessdate=21 August 2019 |work=Jweekly |date=14 June 2019}}{{cite news|first=Alex |last=Breitler |author2=Maline Hazle |title=2 arrested in killings - Palo Cedro brothers held in murders of Gary Matson, Winfield Mowder |url=http://web.redding.com/specials/matson_mowder/stories/19990709.shtml |work=Record Searchlight |date=1999-07-09 |accessdate=2007-08-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060605070257/http://web.redding.com/specials/matson_mowder/stories/19990709.shtml |archivedate=June 5, 2006 }}

= Twenty-first century =

Attacks on synagogues continued into the twenty-first century. The 2002 Lyon synagogue attack occurred on 30 March 2002, involving a group of masked men using two cars to conduct a vehicle-ramming attack in Lyon, France. After ramming the synagogue, the cars were set on fire. The attack caused severe damage to the synagogue.{{cite news|title=Vandals crash cars through French synagogue|url=http://azdailysun.com/vandals-crash-cars-through-french-synagogue/article_a3a07e4c-8d84-55f4-9b2b-5b6bccaee9bb.html|accessdate=8 August 2016|agency=AP|publisher=Arizona Daily Sun|date=30 March 2002}}{{cite news|title=Shooting in France in Wave of Anti-Jewish Attacks|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/01/international/europe/01FRAN.html|accessdate=8 August 2016|work=New York Times|date=1 April 2002}}{{cite news|last1=Horn|first1=Heather|title=The Jewish School Shooting and Patterns of Violence|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/the-jewish-school-shooting-and-patterns-of-violence/254707/|accessdate=8 August 2016|publisher=The Atlantic|date=19 March 2012}} The Lyon attack was one of a series of pro-Palestinian attacks on French synagogues and other Jewish targets. The series of attacks included attacks on synagogues in Paris, Marseille and Strasbourg.{{cite news|last1=Tagliabue|first1=John|title=Synagogue In Paris Firebombed; Raids Go On|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/05/world/synagogue-in-paris-firebombed-raids-go-on.html|accessdate=8 August 2016|work=New York Times|date=5 April 2002}}{{cite news|last1=Diamond|first1=Andrew|title=Weekend of anti-Semitism in France|url=http://www.jta.org/2002/04/01/life-religion/features/weekend-of-anti-semitism-in-france|accessdate=8 August 2016|publisher=JTA|date=1 April 2002}} The 2002 Djerba synagogue bombing was a terror attack on the El Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, carried out by Al-Qaeda.{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2061071.stm|title = Al-Qaeda claims Tunisia attack|date = 23 June 2002}} The attack occurred on 11 April 2002, involving a natural gas truck fitted with explosives which drove past security barriers at the ancient El Ghriba synagogue.{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1923522.stm|title = Blast at Tunisian synagogue kills five|date = 11 April 2002}} The truck detonated at the front of the synagogue, killing 14 German tourists, three Tunisians, and two French nationals.Official Procès-Verbal, July 20th, 2002 in Tunis, El Fadel El Malki, Central Directorate of the Judicial police, The Criminal Affairs Bureau More than 30 others were wounded.{{Cite web |last=Tepper |first=Greg |title=Citing terror threat, Israel advises travelers to stay out Tunisia |url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-counter-terrorism-bureau-issues-tunisia-travel-warning/ |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=www.timesofisrael.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=RFI - Ouverture du procès de l'attentat de Djerba |url=http://www1.rfi.fr/actufr/articles/109/article_76912.asp |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=www1.rfi.fr}}{{Cite web |date=2015-06-04 |title=Béji Caïd Essebsi, président de la Tunisie: "Notre premier créancier, c'est la France" |url=https://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/beji-caid-essebsi-president-de-la-tunisie-notre-premier-creancier-c-est-la-france-481311.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=La Tribune |language=fr}} Following this, the 2009 Caracas synagogue attack occurred on 31 January 2009 at the Tiféret Israel Synagogue in Caracas, Venezuela's oldest synagogue. The attack occurred amid a rise in tensions prompted by the 2008–2009 Gaza War, after Venezuela severed diplomatic relations with Israel and Israel responded by expelling Venezuelan officials from the country.{{Cite news |title=Israel Expels Venezuela Envoys, Cuts Ties With Caracas |language=en |work=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/2009-01-28/ty-article/israel-expels-venezuela-envoys-cuts-ties-with-caracas/0000017f-e1e9-df7c-a5ff-e3fb70930000 |access-date=2023-03-13}} The attack involved a group of 15 attackers who broke into the synagogue and occupied the building for several hours.BBC, 1 February 2009, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7863356.stm Synagogue desecrated in Venezuela] Security guards were tied up and gagged and the gang destroyed offices and the repository where the holy books were stored. They daubed the walls with antisemitic and anti-Israeli graffiti.[http://www.noticias24.com/fotos/447/especial-fotos-el-ataque-a-la-sinagoga Noticias24.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217223650/http://www.noticias24.com/fotos/447/especial-fotos-el-ataque-a-la-sinagoga|date=17 February 2010}} They also stole a database that listed Jews who lived in Venezuela.{{cite web|title=Bomb damages Caracas synagogue – JTA – Jewish & Israel News|url=http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/27/1003336/grenade-damages-caracas-center|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302053200/http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/27/1003336/grenade-damages-caracas-center|archive-date=2 March 2009|access-date=27 May 2016}}

The following decade saw the 2014 Jerusalem synagogue attack, a terrorist attack on the Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue in Jerusalem, occurring on 18 November 2014. Two Palestinian men attacked synagogue congregants with axes, knives, and a gun, killing four worshippers, injuring eight others including a Druze Israeli police officer who later died of his wounds.{{cite news |last1=Soffer |first1=Ari |title=Synagogue Massacre Victim Identified as Rabbi Moshe Twersky |url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187594 |access-date=18 November 2014 |publisher=Arutz Sheva |date=18 November 2014 |archive-date=20 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141120163550/http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187594 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Toameh |first=Khaled Abu |date=18 November 2014 |title=Palestinian terror group PFLP: To early talk about responsibility for 'heroic' synagogue attack |url=https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/palestinian-terror-group-pflp-to-early-talk-about-responsibility-for-heroic-synagogue-attack-382121 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218155348/http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Palestinian-terror-group-PFLP-To-early-talk-about-responsibility-for-heroic-synagogue-attack-382121 |archive-date=18 December 2014 |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=The Jerusalem Post |language=en-US |quote=Conflicted reports emerged in the Palestinian media about a Palestinian terror group claiming responsibility for the deadly attack at a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday. A spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) stated that it was 'premature' to talk about his organization's responsibility for the attack he labeled as 'heroic'.}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2014-11-19 |title=Synagogue attack: Israel vows retribution, demolishes Palestinian homes |url=https://www.newarab.com/news/synagogue-attack-israel-vows-retribution-demolishes-palestinian-homes |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218155743/http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/26f78104-f506-420e-8e1d-ce2b6a57b89a |archive-date=18 December 2014 |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=The New Arab |language=en |quote="Synagogue attack: Israel vows retribution, demolishes Palestinian homes" Archived 18 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Al-Araby, 19 November 2014: "It was initially reported that the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) had claimed the attack, but the group later denied that, stating that they had merely supported those who carried it out. 'We bless the operation and the two young men who carried it out,' said Jamil Mizher, the leader of the PFLP, to al-Araby al-Jadeed. 'But we have not received any confirmation that it was planned by the PFLP, even though it was consistent with the history of the PFLP,' Mizher said.}}{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Ben |date=20 November 2014 |title=Overlooked Palestinian terror group returns with a vengeance |url=https://www.jns.org/opinion/overlooked-palestinian-terror-group-returns-with-a-vengeance/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225060255/http://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/opinion/fl-jjps-cohen-1126-20141124-story.html |archive-date=25 February 2021 |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=JNS.org |language=en-US |quote=the PFLP didn't explicitly claim responsibility for the atrocity at the synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood, it did laud the attack while describing the two assailants, cousins Ghassan and Odai Abu Jamal, as "PFLP comrades".}}

Additionally, the same decade saw the 2017 Gothenburg Synagogue attack, the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, the 2019 Poway synagogue shooting, and the 2019 Halle synagogue shooting. Attacks in the 2020s include the 2022 Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis, the 2023 Djerba synagogue shooting, and the 2024 Melbourne synagogue attack.