I was not clear earlier – “the police doing nothing to stop the rioters and instead arresting and prosecuting Jews who tried to defend themselves against the rioters” –
was referring to the events of may in eretz Yisroel which to me were a real sea change, bc I never thought the medina would mamesh be mafkir citizens who live in lod, akko, yaffo and anywhere else Arabs live – which is almost everywhere.
This does not mean one should NOT move to ey, just don’t do it for security reasons bc at the moment I would say ey is less safe for Jews than anywhere else- b’derech hateva of course.
In contrast, De’vayle – from what I can tell Jews are still basically safe in America as well as other western European countries.
However, if you live in a neighborhood tzumished with certain ethnic groups, there is no way of knowing when the hatred those people have for us will explode and if the trend of defund/disrespect/ambush/hunt down the police continues etc. another round of george Floyd type riots might get pretty hairy.
Moreover, So long as the iljlhan Omar/tlaaaab/aoc’s don’t attain too much power American Jewry is fine. It is once they start really calling the shots that you need to really pay attention.
(A large scale right wing reaction to left wing excess that blames the Jews – not wo basis, I might add- is also a possibility, but rather vyte, and not really on the radar at the moment)
This hasnt happened yet. And there is no of knowing what the future holds. Most German Jews and Kal v’chomer eastern European Jews did not think that yimach shmo would do or be able to do what he said he would do. And indeed there was a good number of years even after he came to power before it was too late.
The lesson from that is, once the reshoim gain power, that is the time to fear the future.
Like I said, this hasnt happened yet but to my shikul hadaas the current trajectory is not good and needs to change but the danger zone is still somewhat of a ways off if it doesn’t. Radical political change in a country like america will b’pashtus not come over night and will be easily recognizable before it does.
B’kitzur, definitely not a time to panic, but more vigilance than in the past is indeed warranted bc if indeed the tlaaaaabs of the world take over america will become a different place altogether.