Thread by @DanielDenvir

130 days ago, a white supremacist massacred Jews at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue.

Today, defenders of Israeli gov have made @IlhanMN the face of anti-Semitism bc she had the courage to criticize their power.

How quickly we forget: anti-Semitism is a right-wing force. 1/

Hours before the shooting, shooter Robert Bowers posted: “HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”

HIAS is a Jewish resettlement agency that helps resettle refugees like Omar. 2/

Bowers was referencing is a core tenet of the American white power movement: that Jews are conspiring to flood the country with non-white migrants to destroy the white race. Read @kathleen_belew Bring the War Home, and listen to my interview w her here. blubrry.com/thedig/3921719… 3/

October, when Bowers perpetrated the massacre, was the lead-up to what Trump had made into his "caravan election." The "Democrat Party," he warned nine days before the shooting, was leading a Central American "assault on our country" a "large flow...INCLUDING MANY CRIMINALS." 4/

Trump is the most powerful apologist and inspiration for white supremacy and anti-Semitism in the world.

Powerful defenders of Israel don't mind: in defense of his apartheid state, Netanyahu has made friends not only with Trump but with anti-Semitic Soros-conspiracist Orbán. 5/

Everything is moving too fast these days, the function of which is to obscure reality, sow confusion, and trigger amnesia.

Let's fight for a free Palestine and against anti-Semitism.

That means fighting the resurgent far-right everywhere. 6/