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Last week witnessed the judicial denouement of the 2018 terror attack at the Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, where eleven worshippers were killed. Predictably the closure was lost in the dramas of the Trump arraignment and the missing submersible Titanic observation capsule, The accused gunman was a confessed white supremacist antisemite, Robert Bowers.
This mass shooting, as was the fact that it was an anti semitic hate crime, was not an isolated event in America. The number of mass shootings, defined as incidents where at least four people are injured and/or killed, is on a path for a record number in 2023, 311 already having been recorded. Anti semitism hate crimes too are on the rise with a 35 percent increase between 2021 and 2022, from 2,721 to 3697. This year is on a path to keep up the tempo.
Jews represent 2.4 percent of the American population yet are the victims of 63 percent of “religious” hate crimes. There is little doubt that the introduction of the internet has exponentially increased the scourge. The Anti Defamation League found that 85 percent of Americans believe in at least one anti semitic trope. In their 2020 study they learned that 60 percent of Gen Z and millennials were unaware that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
As an example of a conspiracy, anti semitism is the original prototype and has been perpetrated for over two millennia. The establishment of Israel as a nation state has heralded an increase in the attacks.
The question is why the Jews?.
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