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The anti-Semitic attack at a Pittsburgh synagogue was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history. This comes at a time when anti-Semitic acts are on the increase worldwide fulfilling Bible prophecy.
October 27 - Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: Gunman kills 11 people in 'deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US'
Article: Israel And The Last Days A gunman shouting "all Jews must die" burst into a Pittsburgh synagogue during a circumcision ceremony on Saturday, shooting dead 11 people. Robert Bowers, 46, wielding an arsenal that included a semi-automatic rifle and three handguns, also left six others wounded, including four police officers, during the 20 minute attack. The shooting happened at the Tree of Life Congregation in a leafy suburb in the heart of its Jewish community in Pennsylvania.
Bowers, who was in fair condition at a hospital after being shot several times by police, was charged late on Saturday with 29 federal counts, including hate crimes and weapons offences. The suspect, who had no apparent criminal record, had left a trail of vile white supremacist comments and anti-Semitic abuse on social media, including sharing posts denying the Holocaust. An hour before the attack he wrote on the Gab social media forum that Jewish "invaders" were "killing our people". He wrote: "I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”
President Donald Trump was quick to insist that tougher gun laws would have made little difference but the latest attack will also fuel fears that religious and race hate is on the rise during a fraught period of divisive politics.Mr Trump said he would travel to Pittsburgh in the wake of the shooting. "This evil anti-Semitic attack is an assault on all of us," Mr Trump told supporters at an election rally in Illinois where he began by addressing the attack at length - drawing loud cheers as he vowed to fully enforce the death penalty for such crimes. "We must stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters to defeat anti-Semitism and vanquish the forces of hate." Wendell Hissrich, the public safety director for Pittsburgh, said detectives were sifting the site for evidence. “It’s a very horrific crime scene. It’s one of the worst I’ve seen – and I’ve been on plane crashes,” he told a news conference.
The attack comes after months of warnings by Jewish groups that anti-Semitic attacks were on the increase at a time of heightened racial and religious intolerance. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported earlier this year that anti-Semitic incidents surged more than 50% in 2017, to almost 2000 cases, the biggest increase since they began collecting data.
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