Noah Rothman
Role at the time: Senior writer at National Review
Condemned
Responding to
El-Sayed's cycle-of-violence framing rationalized the antisemitic attack or improperly shifted explanatory responsibility toward Israel and Jews.
"He agonized over whether to condemn an Islamist attack on a Michigan synagogue in which Jewish children were targets."
Why we used this label
The authored article treats El-Sayed's contextualization as a failure to distinguish terrorism from Israeli military action.