Hundreds of European rabbis have signed a petition calling for the establishment of an international task force on anti-Semitic terrorism in the wake of a rise in anti-Jewish incidents in the United States and Europe.
The petition calls for the task force to search for suspicious posts on social media and act to prevent attacks.
The initiative is being deemed especially important following the shooting attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday in which 11 people were killed.
Gunman Robert Bowers announced his intentions on social media minutes before the attack, writing, "Screw the optics. I'm going in."
The man behind the task force initiative is Moscow Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis.
"In recent years, there is a growing sense in Israel and among many Jews in the world that most of the danger comes from radical Muslims and the Islamic State group. The terrorist attack in Pittsburgh proves that the danger is not just from that direction," he told Israel Hayom.
"Considering the problematic remarks and laws that exist, the information collected by the public on social media can have immense influence, particularly on unstable individuals. We need to raise awareness regarding the threat to the Jewish community, both from the Left and the Right, from neo-Nazis and radical Islam."
Goldschmidt said the goal of the initiative is "to establish a forum to relay information in real time from the [Jewish] communities to Israel and vice versa."
"Security cannot be provided to the Jewish community by addressing a specific case. There is a need for a comprehensive war on the sources of evil," he said.
