After the shocking scenes from the attacks on a Los Angeles Jewish community by an Islamist and leftist mob, and the resulting outrage, politicians from Mayor Karen Bass to President Joe Biden decided to condemn it in the same general terms.

They condemned the actions, but not those behind it.

It’s nice that most top statewide officials finally condemned attacking a synagogue, but they did not condemn the movements and the ideology behind it. There would have been no such reticence had they been white supremacists.

Antisemitism is bad, California and federal elected officials agree. So is attacking synagogues. What do they intend to do about it?

They’ll condemn it without condemning those responsible or taking any actions against them.

I wrote about the violence here in ‘What I Saw at a Terrorist Rally Outside a Synagogue’ and also more briefly here, and the overall message was there were lessons to learn from this. Over the past 8 months there have been similar ugly incidents that played out the same way because the LAPD failed to emplace and maintain protest zones that would keep terrorist supporters and Jews apart.

Will anything change the next time around? Don’t count on it.

Patrols will briefly increase in Jewish areas but the next time terrorist supporters come to a Jewish neighborhood, the authorities will not do anything differently. I hope to be proven wrong, but I doubt that I will be.