Pittsburgh Shooting

This has been coming for a while; remember the Alt-Right demo in Charlottesville: 'Jews shall not replace us!' Trump blamed both sides equally for the violence. Anti-Semitism is the ugly underside of Christianity, especially the traditional Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches (remember the Inquisition and pogroms!). There are a number of anti-Jewish gospel texts. The 100 million American Evangelicals are false friends to Zionism; they want to see all Jews 'returned' to Palestine as a precondition to Armageddon and the Last Judgement, in which any Jews who do not convert to Christianity will be sent to Hell. For centuries Jews fled Christian persecution in Europe to find sanctuary in Muslim-majority countries. Muslims were rarely hostile to Jews as such. Jews made a bad call when they fled en masse to the USA, the most observant Christian country of all, still worse when they turned to colonialism in Palestine, just as the colonial empires were crumbling. Israel needs anti-Semitism to spur immigration, and it applies a racial definition to would-be immigrants. We are far from out of the wood yet.