Every day that goes by comes more evidence that anti-Semitism isn’t a thing of the past. It still grips modern-day America, and a deadly domino effect is pushing its way through the nation leaving Jewish blood in its wake. Indeed, the recent Chabad synagogue shooting in San Diego left three attendants injured and one dead. Disturbingly, the 19-year-old gunman left an online manifesto citing the Pittsburgh and New Zealand shootings as his inspiration.

While the shooters in this harrowing string of attacks on religious minorities all claim to be coming to the defense of their nation, there is nothing so un-American as merciless violence against innocent synagogue worshipers.