HIAS, the Jewish Agency Criticized by the Shooting Suspect, Has a History of Aiding Refugees

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/us/hias-pittsburgh-robert-bowers.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

"When Mazen Hasan had to flee his native Iraq because his work for the American military had drawn threats on his life, it was a Jewish refugee resettlement agency called HIAS that helped him and his family to settle in Pittsburgh.

“They did everything they can to help us and make it easy to adjust to a new life here,” said Mr. Hasan, 61, an engineer who arrived in the United States in 2014.

HIAS is one of nine agencies with contracts from the State Department to help refugees acclimate to the United States. It has aided immigrants with diverse talents from all corners of the world, including the co-founders of Google and WhatsApp.

It is also the target of many anti-Semitic rants posted on social media by Robert Bowers, the suspect in the mass shooting on Saturday at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh — including one post published only a few hours before the shooting. Eleven worshipers were killed in the attack."

HIAS certainly appear to be people of the highest ethical and humanitarian quality.

[Behind the Aegis]

1. This needs more exposure.

I have seen some claim the attack on the synagogue wasn't really about anti-Semitism, but about immigration. The anti-Semitism was "secondary". No, the immigration was secondary. The attack was anti-Semitic and it was because Jews are seen as rabble-rousers who try to overthrow a society by empowering other minorities, this was true during the US civil rights movement too. Yeah, did you know the Jews were behind blacks being treated as equals?! That was a rallying cry of the Klan. As much as they hated blacks, they hated Jews as much because we were trying to destroy "white society", which is what that POS gunman was accusing us of again.

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2. immigration?

How do they make that leap in the face of the shooter's own words? Bowers yelled, "All Jews must die!"