One year ago today, Hamas launched a surprise combined arms attack on Israel proper from its Gaza Strip territory, deploying thousands of rockets and hundreds of combatants, dismounted and mounted on motorized parafoils, killed 1,200 Israelis, and kidnapped another 250.
Given the wave of anti-Jewish attacks, violent and non-violent, since the Oct. 7 attacks, The Wall Street Journal Opinion Page chose today to launch its new documentary series, WSJ Opinion Docs, with the 23-minute piece by Palladium Pictures, “‘Get the Jew’: The Crown Heights Riot Revisited.”
The film is a fascinating tick-tock of the four days in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood when local black residents rampaged against an enclave of Orthodox Jews without interference from the police nor New York City Mayor David Dinkins.
In the chaos of the crisis, Australian doctoral student Yankel Rosenbaum,…