A group of Jewish leaders told President Trump that he is no longer welcome in Pittsburgh until he denounces white nationalism following the shooting at\u2026<\/b>
\nA group of Jewish leaders told President Trump that he is no longer welcome in Pittsburgh until he denounces white nationalism following the shooting at a synagogue there over the weekend.
Eleven members of the Pittsburgh affiliate of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice penned a letter to Trump following the Saturday shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue.
\u201c Our Jewish community is not the only group you have targeted,\u201d the group wrote. \u201cYou have also deliberately undermined the safety of people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. Yesterday\u2019s massacre is not the first act of terror you incited against a minority group in our country.\u201d
Trump was fiercely criticized after he failed to condemn white supremacy and asserted that there is \u201cblame on both sides\u201d after last year\u2019s white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
The group also said Trump is not welcome in the city until he also stops targeting minorities, immigrants and refugees.
The president has \u201cspread lies and sowed fear about migrant families in Central America,\u201d the group wrote.
\u201cThe Torah teaches that every human being is made b\u2019tzelem Elohim, in the image of God. This means all of us,\u201d the leaders wrote. \u201cIn our neighbors, Americans, and people worldwide who have reached out to give our community strength, there we find the image of God.\u201d
They noted how Squirrel Hill, the Pittsburgh neighborhood where the attack took place, was once the neighborhood where children\u2019s television host Fred Rogers lived.
\u201cHere in Mr. Rogers\u2019 neighborhood, we express gratitude for the first responders and for the outpouring of support from our neighbors near and far,\u201d they wrote.
Robert Gregory Bowers, 46, has been arrested and charged with the deaths of 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue.
The attack on the synagogue is the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U. S. history.
Trump condemned the attack as „an assault on humanity.“
„It will require all of us working together to extract the hateful poison of anti-Semitism from our world. This was an anti-Semitic attack at its worst,“ Trump said during a rally Saturday night.
He condemned the gunman as a \u201cwacko\u201d who should get the death penalty and suggested that an \u201carmed guard\u201d at the synagogue could have prevented the attack.
The president, however, was criticized on social media Saturday night for tweeting about the World Series game shortly after the shooting took place.
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