A gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh during Shabbat morning services on Oct. 27, 2018, killing 11 worshippers and wounding six more in the deadliest attack ever on Jews in the United States.
On the same day in 1938, the Nazis started rounding up and sending Polish Jews living in Germany back to Poland.
The throughline of those 80 years — from the expulsion of Polish Jews to the Tree of Life massacre — is white supremacy. The same line stretches from my mother’s incarceration in Auschwitz to the virulent antisemitism of this past year — from white nationalist rallies to a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, inspired by racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
On this anniversary of the Tree of Life massacre, when ideologies like the great replacement theory are infiltrating the Republican Party on the eve of midterm elections, we need this coalition more than ever.
