3 weeks ago marked the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust & I’m still heartbroken.

I’m mourning the many killed - Israelis & Palestinians - and terrified for the hostages.

But I’m also broken over the callous antisemitism being normalized in
some progressive spaces. 1/ Some on the right have long considered me insufficiently pro-Israel for advocating peace, democracy, & Palestinian dignity. I’ve been called a “kapo” & a “self-hating Jew.”

And yet now, in some progressive corners, I’m a “genocidal Zionist” for believing Israel should exist. 2/

The Tree of Life massacre is part of a broader cycle of right-wing extremism in which each attack inspires the next.

And in the five years since Tree of Life, the white supremacist conspiracy theory behind it has been fully normalized in our politics and our society.

https://twitter.com/pittsburghpg/status/1669736911567560705

As we saw with our Charlottesville case, trials like this are crucial to getting the facts of these hate-fueled attacks on record — especially at a time when extremists desperately try to subvert the truth.

And at the same time, community healing & safety requires so much more.