(RNS) — If you were wondering what “globalize the intifada” means, it happened at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, on Thursday (March 12). An armed man drove an explosives-laden truck into one of the largest Reform temples in the country, carrying weapons and prepared to create lethal mayhem. Security confronted him. Shots were fired. The attacker died at the scene. A security guard was injured, but miraculously, there were no casualties among congregants or children in the synagogue preschool. The suspect, Ayman Ghazali, was a Lebanese immigrant. Though a motive has not been determined yet, officials said four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon in recent days, multiple news outlets reported. The Federal Bureau of Investigation described the synagogue attack as a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community. The suspect could just as easily have been a right-wing antisemite — a devotee of Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes or Candace Owens. The hateful rhetoric and violence are interchangeable and indistinguishable. The irrational hatred makes Jews targets …