Politicizing Mass Murder at a Synagogue Misses the Point

When President Donald Trump went to Pittsburgh on Tuesday to offer condolences at the site of the massacre at the Tree of Life Congregation, many in the city and in the Jewish community rejected the gesture. As far as the thousands who turned out to protest his visit to the synagogue as well as to some of the mourners of the eleven congregants, Trump wasn’t merely unwelcome but was at least partially responsible for the attack. While not every one of Trump’s critics went as far as to call Trump an anti-Semite, those attacks reflected what appeared to be the conventional wisdom about the shooting in much of the mainstream media since the slaughter that disrupted a Sabbath service.

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