Peaceful Protest

We gathered to make a statement in opposition to anti-Semitism which has gotten more overt, with responses too fractured.  It has three sources, an emboldened political right who Republican candidates need for their secure votes, a residual of the African-Americans who in a quest for a Just America resent those who have made it when they didn't, and Islamists who think Jews should remain dhimmis without sovereignty.  As a Jewish community, we all abhor the more violent elements of anti-Semitism, but accept or even rationalize it as understandable when our views on other elements of concern intersect with the anti-Semitic elements.  While the speakers all viewed America as a hate free haven, at least for Jews if not Blacks, undocumented immigrants, LGBTQs, and Islamists, they failed to address a few of the more glaring issues.  Why now as America's history plays out?  They didn't really address the levels of infraction.  Shootings and using Jew as a verb may overlap in underpinnings though not in consequences.  

A useful gathering for common purpose.  Those recent heroes from the Capitol Police had a relatively easy day with prosperous, peaceful Jews claiming their commitment to and stake in America's destiny.  No food trucks got looted.  No militants carrying provocative signs.  Useful, though incomplete.