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  How Gab Empowered The Pittsburgh Shooter’s Hatred

  Before he attacked the Tree of Life synagogue this Saturday, the alleged Pittsburgh gunman Robert Bowers posted a message on social media. “HIAS [Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society] likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered,” he wrote. “Screw your optics, I’m going in.” He…

  By Noah Berlatsky

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  Trump Is Using Ivanka As A Prop To Whitewash Anti-Semitism

  Something you hear a lot from the right when you bring up the President’s penchant for inflammatory language that ignites neo-Nazis is that the president can’t possibly be anti-Semitic because he has a Jewish daughter. It’s a line we have heard uttered by almost every member of the Trump administration at one time or another,…

  By Molly Jong-Fast Oct 30, 2018 | 4 min read
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  Stop Blaming Trump For Anti-Semitism. It Lets The Anti-Semites Off The Hook.

  After Pittsburgh, with 11 Jews dead, the recriminations began swiftly. The moment should have been about community and togetherness. Instead it became about finding someone to blame for anti-Semitism. The finger was pointed at President Donald Trump. The progressive group Bend the Arc issued a statement telling Trump he’s “not welcome in Pittsburgh.” The story…

  By Karol Markowicz Oct 30, 2018 | 3 min read

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  I’m Israeli And I’m Ashamed My Government Sent Naftali Bennett To Comfort Pittsburgh Jews

  In the wake of the massacre that led 11 dead in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Trump is making his way there despite 26,000 Jews who signed a petition that he stay away. He’s not the only unwelcome politician to use the tragedy for a photo-op. The State of Israel sent Education and Diaspora Minister Naftali…

  By Eetta Prince-Gibson Oct 30, 2018 | 4 min read
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  Pittsburgh Happened In America 2018 — Not Berlin 1938 Or Israel

  The terrorist attack that killed 11 Jews in Sabbath prayer on October 27 was the worst act of anti-Semitism in America, ever. But it was hardly the first time Jews have been targeted for injury and death within the shores of a nation that is supposed to offer us refuge and acceptance. While violent anti-Semitism…

  By Jane Eisner Oct 29, 2018 | 4 min read
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  American Jews: Stop Politicizing The Pittsburgh Massacre. Sincerely, Your Israeli Brother

  On Saturday, a man entered a synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered 11 Jews. It was a horrific, heinous crime. Sadly, rather than bringing Jews closer together, it seems to be only dividing us apart. In the past, after terror attacks in Israel, I have looked at my Instagram feed just after a terror attack in…

  By Yishai Fleisher Oct 29, 2018 | 3 min read
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  The Israeli Response To The Pittsburgh Massacre Has Been A Disaster

  In the aftermath of the terrorist attack at the Tree of Life shul in Pittsburgh last Shabbat, many Israelis weighed in with messages for American Jews. The responses to the attack ranged from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s sympathetic condolences to Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau’s patronizing insults. But Zionist Union chief Avi Gabbay’s contribution –…

  By Michael Koplow Oct 29, 2018 | 4 min read
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  What The Pittsburgh Massacre Taught Me About Jews In The Age of Trump

  In the wake of the horrific massacre of 11 Jews at prayer this Shabbat, I have found myself wondering what it means to be a Jew in the age of Trump. It was a question that preoccupied me on the day he won the presidential election in 2016, on the strength of a campaign that…

  By Batya Ungar-Sargon Oct 29, 2018 | 4 min read
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  Pittsburgh Bloodbath Exposes Hypocrisy Of Netanyahu’s Attacks On Liberal Jews

  On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began his weekly cabinet meeting with a moment of silence and said that “Israel stands together with the Jewish community in Pittsburgh, and with all Jewish communities in the United States, and with the American people.” Netanyahu then talked about anti-Semitism in America, Western Europe, and the battle…

  By Etan Nechin Oct 29, 2018 | 4 min read
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  Yes, Synagogue Bloodbath Could Swing The Midterms — But Which Way?

  On Saturday, after shouting “all Jews must die,” Robert Bowers callously murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, the worst anti-Semitic act of violence in American history according to the Anti-Defamation League. Bowers, like many anti-Semites in the United States and Europe, believes Jews are the…

  By Abe Silberstein Oct 29, 2018 | 3 min read
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  The Right Is Blaming Jews For The Pittsburgh Shooting — And So Is The Left

  In a stunningly apt display of victim-blaming, Donald Trump said on Saturday that the outcome of the anti-Semitic attack on Tree of Life synagogue that left 11 Jews dead would have been different if the Pittsburgh congregants had been armed. Before boarding a flight to several events — one of which being one of his…

  By Nylah Burton Oct 28, 2018 | 4 min read