There is a direct line between Santa Monica and Colleyville, between those who advertise their hate and those who act on it, between flyers and posters on a schoolhouse wall and gunfire inside of a temple sanctuary.
I, for one, am treating the hostage attack in Colleyville as if Jews had been killed, because they easily could have, and as a reminder to not brush off this moment of time in American Jewish history.
It takes a special kind of assurance to announce that attacking Jews because they are Jews, inside of their Jewish sanctuary, along with their chief Jewish official, is actually “not related” to the Jewish community.
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