Two shootings, one anti-Semitic against a synagogue and a “terrorist act” at a university, set off alarms in the US

And shooting that occurred this Thursday at a Virginia university and another at a Michigan synagogueinvestigated respectively as a terrorist act and the second as antisemitic violencehave set off alarms in the United States in the midst of the Iran war.

According to FBI Special Agent Dominique Evans, the suspect was in prison between 2017 and 2024 for links to the Islamist terrorist group Islamic Statefor which he tried to obtain weapons and financial support.

Jalloh opened fire in one of the campus buildings and was found dead minutes later by police.

According to authorities, the attacker was subdued by Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) students who were on campus.

“The shooter died thanks to a group of brave students who intervened and subdued him,” FBI Director Kash Patel detailed on social media.

As confirmed by the Virginia National Guard to Fox News, Jalloh served in that body between 2009 and 2015.

Attack on a synagogue

In parallel, a man armed with a rifle rammed a vehicle into the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, near Detroit (Michigan), and a shooting in which he was shot dead by the center’s security guards.

The only victim was one of the guards who was run over but authorities expect him to recover satisfactorily.

The authorities are investigating him as “a act of violence against the Jewish community”, FBI special agent Jennifer Runyan reported in a press conference in which she did not offer information about the identity of the attacker.

The president of the United States, Donald Trumphas described what happened in Michigan as “terrible” and promised that the authorities will get “to the bottom of the matter.”

Temple Israel Synagogue of West Bloomfield is a leading religious, educational and community center for the Detroit-area Jewish community and is considered a the largest Reform congregation in the United States.

Over the past few years, both the FBI and the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights organization, have recorded an increase in acts of anti-Semitic violence in the United States.

Michigan, in the Midwest of the country, has one of the largest Arab communities in the country and with a large Jewish communityespecially concentrated in the Detroit metropolitan area.

“This It’s heartbreaking. Michigan’s Jewish community should be able to live and practice their faith in peace. Anti-Semitism and violence have no place in Michigan. I hope everyone is safe,” said the governor of Michigan, the Democrat. Gretchen Whitmer, upon knowing what happened.