It is increasingly difficult to look at a news site, paper or podcast and not be accosted with either anti-Semitic physical attacks or anti-Israel accusations about Gaza and the broader Middle East.
To hazard a guess, I suspect that much of the world would love to add a current catastrophe to the list of calamities that the Jewish people remember on Tisha B’Av. The specifics of that addition are not as important as the intent: as they say, it’s the thought that counts.