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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Over the past two years, white supremacists have plainly been emboldened.
When I visit a synagogue or Jewish community center in my congressional district, I usually pass by armed security. Inside, people sometimes share heartfelt concerns about boycotts of Israel or the controversy over remarks about Israel by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. But those aren’t the reasons for the guard at the gate.
From time to time, I also attend Friday prayers at local mosques. Recently, there have been state police officers standing watch outside.
Political debates in the United States can be untethered from facts, but threats to life focus minds on reality. The reality today is that when it comes to organized violence, Jewish and Muslim Americans, as well as members of other minority groups, face the same threat: white-supremacist terrorism.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the overwhelming majority of terrorist killings in the United States since 2009 have been committed by white people motivated by a specific ideology: the belief that America belongs to them, and must be protected from “globalist” (read: Jewish) elites and immigrants of all kinds.
Over the past two years, white supremacists have plainly been emboldened. The evidence can be seen in the crackpot conspiracy theories spreading virally on social media, the “Unite the Right” marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia, and swastikas suddenly appearing in schools. (Summit, New Jersey, a city inside my district, has had six such incidents in the past five months). Anti-Semitic incidents, including bomb threats, assaults and cemetery desecrations, rose by 60 percent from 2016 to 2017.
In the past, every authoritative voice in the country would be communicating to these people that they are isolated in their crazy beliefs. Now, they find validation in the president of the United States, who, on the day of the New Zealand attacks, referred to an immigrant “invasion” of the United States, and who seems incapable of calling white-supremacist attacks terrorism. These bigots hear politicians and cable-news hosts attacking the FBI, alleging “deep state” coups and calling fact-based journalism “fake news,” reinforcing their mistrust of authority and conspiratorial thinking.
https://www.dailycommercial.com/opi...s-greatest-terrorist-threat-comes-from-within
When I visit a synagogue or Jewish community center in my congressional district, I usually pass by armed security. Inside, people sometimes share heartfelt concerns about boycotts of Israel or the controversy over remarks about Israel by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. But those aren’t the reasons for the guard at the gate.
From time to time, I also attend Friday prayers at local mosques. Recently, there have been state police officers standing watch outside.
Political debates in the United States can be untethered from facts, but threats to life focus minds on reality. The reality today is that when it comes to organized violence, Jewish and Muslim Americans, as well as members of other minority groups, face the same threat: white-supremacist terrorism.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the overwhelming majority of terrorist killings in the United States since 2009 have been committed by white people motivated by a specific ideology: the belief that America belongs to them, and must be protected from “globalist” (read: Jewish) elites and immigrants of all kinds.
Over the past two years, white supremacists have plainly been emboldened. The evidence can be seen in the crackpot conspiracy theories spreading virally on social media, the “Unite the Right” marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia, and swastikas suddenly appearing in schools. (Summit, New Jersey, a city inside my district, has had six such incidents in the past five months). Anti-Semitic incidents, including bomb threats, assaults and cemetery desecrations, rose by 60 percent from 2016 to 2017.
In the past, every authoritative voice in the country would be communicating to these people that they are isolated in their crazy beliefs. Now, they find validation in the president of the United States, who, on the day of the New Zealand attacks, referred to an immigrant “invasion” of the United States, and who seems incapable of calling white-supremacist attacks terrorism. These bigots hear politicians and cable-news hosts attacking the FBI, alleging “deep state” coups and calling fact-based journalism “fake news,” reinforcing their mistrust of authority and conspiratorial thinking.
https://www.dailycommercial.com/opi...s-greatest-terrorist-threat-comes-from-within
In fact the democrat party had a member in Congress as recently as 2010 that was a self confessed former leader of this democrat hate group (the so called white supremacist KKK)…...now you can't pass through any part of WVA without seeing his name plastered on countless bridges and highways in honor of this self confessed WHITE SUPERMACIST.
