Five years ago today, Jews were murdered at a Pittsburgh synagogue just a few days after an avid Trump supporter was caught sending pipe bombs to the array of political figures who topped Trump’s oft repeated list of “enemies of the people.”

I kept a Pittsburgh seal on my FB account as string around my finger to remind me of how slowly justice grinds. The shooting happened in 2018 and sentencing finished in August this year. I was expecting time but wow.

The political violence of January 6, 2021 was in some ways a major break in the trajectory of American political history, but in other ways it was just a continuation of violent right wing extremism that had been amping up for quite a while.

Five years ago today, I fell to the floor, sobbing, when my friend in Pittsburgh texted me about this, before the news broke. I grew up a mile from Tree of Life. Thank you for highlighting🙏🏻😢

Amazingly enough, they didn't pass a resolution at that time labeling every trump supporter an antisemite (though it wouldn't be far off), yet here we sit with the Hawley Resolution now for protestors trying to stop a genocide.