In the space of less than a week, America has suffered the worst anti-Semitic attack in its history — a massacre that claimed 11 lives — and uncovered a spate of pipe bombs mailed to at least 14 of President Donald Trump’s critics, including his predecessor, Barack Obama. In a third incident, two African-Americans were gunned down in a grocery store. The alleged killer spared a white customer, saying “whites don’t kill whites”. The apparent culprits in the first two — Cesar Sayoc, who allegedly posted the pipe bombs, and Robert Bowers, accused of gunning down worshippers and police officers in a Pittsburgh synagogue— were inspired, in part, by conspiracies on social media touting Mr Trump’s story of a caravan of central Americans heading towards the US border. Anti-Semites believe the caravan is funded by George Soros, the hedge fund billionaire, who was one of the pipe bomb targets.
在不到一週時間裏，美國遭遇了史上最嚴重的反猶太襲擊——一場導致11人死亡的大屠殺——並發現一波土製爆炸裝置被寄給至少14名唐納•川普(Donald Trump)總統的批評者，包括他的前任巴拉克•歐巴馬(Barack Obama)。在第三起事件中，兩名非洲裔美國人在食品店被槍殺。殺人疑犯放過了一名白人顧客，揚言「白人不殺白人」。前兩起事件中的犯罪嫌疑人——塞薩爾•薩尤克(Cesar Sayoc)，他涉嫌寄出爆炸裝置郵包；以及羅伯特•鮑爾斯(Robert Bowers)，他被控在匹茲堡的一個猶太教堂槍擊會衆和警察——在某種程度上是受到了社群媒體上的陰謀論蠱惑，這些陰謀論大肆炒作川普講述的中美洲移民大軍正在向美國邊境進發的故事。反猶分子認爲，這支移民大軍是由對沖基金界的億萬富翁喬治•索羅斯(George Soros)資助的，他也在爆炸裝置郵包的收件人之列。