On January 2nd , 2018 , Blaze Bernstein was murdered by Samuel Woodward , who is a member of a neo-Nazi terrorist organization called Atomwaffen Division . It is being prosecuted as a hate crime on the basis of Sexual Orientation , but Woodward has made many antisemitic comments , and Bernstein was both gay and jewish . On October 27 , 2018 , 11 people were murdered in an attack on the Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha synagogue in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . The shooting was committed by Robert Bowers a prolific user of the social media service Gab where he promoted anti-Semitic tropes and conspiracy theories as well as the white nationalist doctrine of white genocide
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Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
History of antisemitism in the United States