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“Any ordinance like this… always lands on the backs of young African-Americans,” Rev. De Neice Welch said broadly about gun control laws. “Always.”
“If we know that xenophobia and Islamophobia and vilification of marginalized and minority communities is less of an issue in America, then people will feel safer. If we know that that’s not the case and we are not moving towards that, then people don’t feel safe.”
Explosions of anti-Semitic violence like the Tree of Life shooting can sometimes appear to come out of the blue. And many people reference only the Holocaust in Hitler’s Germany when discussing anti-Semitic violence. But in reality, anti-Semitism functions as a system of oppression that goes beyond these violent acts.
Some public health researchers believe we need to address a “collective illness” that allows such hate to thrive in the first place
Pittsburgh city officials on Friday announced a trio of gun control bills in response to the Oct. 27 shooting deaths of 11 people at Tree of Life synagogue.
I was 23 years old when I learned about my family’s history with anti-Semitic violence. Before last year, I had thought there was no significant family history of experiencing anti-Semitic violence. There is, but no one in my family ever talks about it.
“People are grieving, but everyone is so determined to show the world that they’re not afraid to live.”
