NEW ORLEANS — Malaki Starks heard in real time from his hotel room at about 3:15 a.m. on New Year’s Day the result of a terrorist ramming a pick-up truck into the crowd on Bourbon Street.

The Levontin terrorist attack is not a singular event by a lone wolf. What is happening on the streets of Tel Aviv, and the streets of New Orleans is connected – the result is the martyrdom by someone ...