The Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., which was built to preserve our Jewish legacy and inspire future generations, is now a crime scene. Two young, innocent souls — Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim — were gunned down outside a place dedicated to memory and resilience. Their murder was not an accident. It was a targeted act of hate. And it was intended to terrorize, intimidate and advance a poisonous political worldview that scapegoats and vilifies Jews.

The hate that fueled the violence did not originate solely in the tortured mind of the lone gunman. It was sown, cultivated and normalized, and fed by slogans that began as political expression and metastasized into threats.

The threats were then amplified — shouted in the streets, plastered across campuses and echoed online —

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