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.
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