Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
Pittsburgh synagogue massacre was the 2018 anti-Semitic terrorist attack in the United States, 11 worshippers were murdered.
The mass shooting and anti-Semitic hate crime on October 27, 2018, occurred at the Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.[1]
The shooter was a White supremacist racist[2] conspiracy-theorist who blamed Jews, as a whole, for immigration. Before he opened fire he shouted, “All Jews must die.”[3] He was also a a fan of sites that love Electronic Intifada, Max Blumenthal, Mondoweiss.[4]
Robert Jones, the FBI special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh office, called the shooting “the most horrific crime scene” he'd witnessed in 22 years with bureau.[5]
The shooting was the largest mass killing based on antisemitism in the US.
References
- ↑ Oppenheimer, Mark. Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021.
- ↑ Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting, Three Years Later: Resources from ADL’s Center on Extremism. ADL. Oct 28, 2021
- ↑ The conspiracy theory that led to the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, explained. Oct 28, 2018
- ↑ Pittsburgh shooter a fan of sites that love Electronic Intifada, Max Blumenthal, Mondoweiss. EoZ. November 15, 2018
- ↑ Pittsburgh synagogue gunman said he wanted all Jews to die, criminal complaint says. CNN, Oct 28, 2018
