Such was the claim of the deranged shooter who massacred 11 Jews praying in their Synagogue in Pittsburgh this weekend. The following was written by Daniel Seaman formerly of the government Press Office
All Jews - not Orthodox or Reform, Conservative or Reconstructionist; ALL Jews. Not right wing or left wing; not liberal or conservative; not Democrat or Republican, Likud or Meretz. ALL Jews.
Not Baby
Boomers or Millennials, old or young; not Ashkenazi or Sephardic, European or
African Jews; not white or black Jews; not American or Israeli. ALL Jews. Just
like every single persecutor throughout our history.
They never, ever, cared
about the differences we attach to each other. Never saw any of us as better
than the other. It never matters to them. They always saw us as Jews. JUST
JEWS. All of us - Jews. That which unites us. Makes us who we are, makes us
stronger. We are one people. We are ALL Jews. And tonight we mourn with the
Jews of Pittsburgh and the Jewish families and the families of the police
officers who came to their defense.
We are ALL Jews. It could have been any one of us.
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