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Israel's Heart Goes Out to Squirrel Hill
(Wall Street Journal) Dani Dayan - Anti-Semitism is Western civilization's oldest story, and the latest chapter was written in a peaceful Pittsburgh neighborhood as innocent souls were gunned down in prayer. I traveled to the Tree of Life Synagogue to light a candle and release my tears. Israelis follow the news of their diaspora brothers and sisters because it hurts them at the most fundamental level. Jewish love transcends hemispheres and time zones, as does the pain, and the dread we feel when the world becomes a little darker. Robert Bowers might have acted out in hatred of Jewish values and derangement against Jewish conspiracies, but his evil must not be explained away. The only chance we have to combat anti-Semitism and all forms of hatred is when we all take a strong stance against it in every corner. The writer is Israel's consul general in New York.