This is legitimately stomach churning.
A deranged lunatic went into a Pittsburgh synagogue yesterday and killed as many people as he could.
As the world mourns… the Atlantic points a finger at Trump supporting Jews.
Yes, seriously. Jews who dare support our president are at fault for this tragedy… and they should be ostracized from their church and community.
KICK. THEM. OUT.
It’s as hateful as it sounds.
As written in ‘The Atlantic’s’ “A Prayer for Squirrel Hill—And for American Jewry”
In Donald Trump’s abhorrence for globalism and in his inability to smack down David Duke, it was easy to hear the ominous chords of history, to see how he was activating dormant hatreds with his conspiratorial tropes. But it was always easy to see how Jews, with their well-developed institutions and communal resources, were not the most vulnerable targets of Trump’s racialism. I felt pride that so much of the organized Jewish community resisted the impulse to elevate its own problems above those of the more vulnerable.
Of course, this was not every corner of the Jewish community. After the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Gary Cohn couldn’t bring himself to resign from his job. After Squirrel Hill, Jared Kushner and Sheldon Adelson will likely stand their ground. In response to this massacre, every synagogue will protect itself with great security, with more cameras and more guards. They will do what is necessary to create a sense of safety, which will also invariably inhibit the sense of escaping from the secular world. The gunman committed a crime on Shabbat, and it will reverberate as a crime against Shabbat.
Any strategy for enhancing the security of American Jewry should involve shunning Trump’s Jewish enablers. Their money should be refused, their presence in synagogues not welcome. They have placed their community in danger.
Franklin Foer, the author and staff writer for The Atlantic thinks Conservative Jews ought to be permanently shunned from their own churches.
This is vile.
Nevermind that the shooter HATED our president and actually believed he was CONTROLLED BY JEWS. Nevermind that the heinous anti-semitism this man exhibited should bring this community together. Conservative Jews, after all, are ALSO the targets of anti-semitic hate.
Screw unity.
This guy wants to boot people from their church in times of tragedy.
This is what we’ve come to.