内容摘要：The US apparel market is one of the largest globally, with consumers spending billions of dollars on clothing each year.

The US apparel market is one of the largest globally, with consumers spending billions of dollars on clothing each year.

Investigations continue into Rodriguez’s background and motives. Police cordoned off his home in Chicago, Illinois, as their probe continues.Police Chief Smith said law enforcement did not believe there was an ongoing threat to the community at present.

FBI Director Kash Patel said he and his team had been briefed on the shooting.“While we’re working with [the Metropolitan Police Department] to respond and learn more, in the immediate, please pray for the victims and their families,” he wrote on X.Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters her administration would not tolerate “violence or hate in our city”.

“We will not tolerate any acts of terrorism, and we’re going to stand together as a community in the coming days and weeks to send a clear message that we will not tolerate anti-Semitism,” Bowser said.Across the Atlantic, in France, the country’s interior minister told police to “step up surveillance at sites linked to the Jewish community”. Security measures must be “visible and dissuasive”, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said in a message seen by AFP news agency.

Saar said that Israeli flags at the ministry headquarters and at missions around the world would be flown at half-mast on Thursday.

The shooting comes as Israel has launched a new military campaign in GazaIn each case, the enemy wasn’t just a threat. The enemy was an idea — and an idea cannot be reasoned with.

This is the danger of media-driven identity construction. Once the Other becomes a caricature, dialogue dies. Diplomacy becomes weakness. Compromise becomes betrayal. And war becomes not just possible, but desirable.The image of the Other also determined who was considered a victim and who was not.

While missiles flew, people died. Civilians in Kashmir, on both sides, were killed. Border villages were shelled. Religious sites damaged. Innocent people displaced. But these stories, the human stories, were buried beneath the rubble of rhetoric.In both countries, the media didn’t mourn equally. Victims were grieved if they were ours. Theirs? Collateral. Or fabricated. Or forgotten.