In San Jose, two Israeli-Americans were beaten outside a restaurant for speaking Hebrew while they waited for a table. One was knocked unconscious. A witness heard an attacker yell, “Don’t mess with Iran.” Two days earlier, in the Philippines, a Spanish tourist walked up to an Israeli reservist he’d never met, screamed “baby killer,” and attacked him. That same week, Ireland took delivery of a brand-new $61 million government jet — with the Israeli-made fog-landing system specifically stripped out first, on policy grounds, not safety ones.

Three continents, one thread. Pull on it, and it runs straight through the newsroom and into the United Nations.