"She was at the synagogue to mourn her mother. She was killed while protecting the rabbi"
**Note: the article above is being constantly updated in order to keep readers up to date with the conditions of those injured and in intensive care.
The CNN article I read this week covered the shooting in a California synagogue this Sunday. Much of the article discusses the shooting and the individuals who were victims in it, as well as the suspects and the overall effects of the shooting on the community.
Antisemitism is something that should have been entirely eradicated with the fall of Hitler after the Holocaust and World War 2. It should have been, but it hasn't. Why this hatred for a person or a group of people exists, I will never understand. But what I do understand is that in our world, it is being implemented systematically, just like racism. We are getting used to the headlines that tell us that there has been another attack on people of colour or Muslim people or people of a certain denomination of faith. We are getting used to scrolling past it and thinking 'Oh, that's sad. That's not okay.' We are getting used to knowing inside us that it isn't okay, but not doing anything to stop it. This is something that as a global community we need to work towards: putting an end to the things that do not have a place in our world.
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