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Why the Pittsburgh shooter raged about(be very angery with sth 对。。。大发雷霆) immigration before attacking a synagogue(n，犹太教堂)

On Saturday, a shooter opened fire inside a synagogue in the heart of a heavily（adv,很大程度） Jewish neighborhood in Pittsburgh. The attack occurred during Shabbat(希伯来语，rest) services and during a bris(割礼), a celebration of a newborn life.

Immediately before the massacre(屠杀), the alleged killer(嫌疑犯) tweeted about HIAS, an organization once known as the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society that dates back to the late 19th century. “HIAS likes to bring invaders that kill our people,” he wrote. It doesn’t take a deep understanding of American anti-Semitism（反犹太主义） to  know that to him, “our people” did not include Jewish Americans, even though Jews have lived in America since before the founding（美国建国之前) of the United States and the congregation（宗教团体） he attacked has been convening to pray since the Civil War. （南北战争）(The congregation also had no particular ties to HIAS.)

Why, then, did this white-nationalist（白人种族主义者） xenophobe gun down local Jews to protest HIAS? The massacre reflects a stark reality（残酷的现实） with deep roots（深深扎根） in American history: Anti-Semitism, nativism and anti-immigrant sentiments have long been inextricably intertwined（被紧密的缠在一起）. 

The anti-Semitism that drove the immigration policy of the early 20th century never faded from American life. Nor did its connection to anti-immigrant sentiment. 

And that sentiment is what compelled a shooter ranting about HIAS to massacre Jews who were part of a congregation that dates to the 1800s and is located in a city where HIAS has no offices or presence. 

重点词汇

bris：n，割礼

massacre：n，屠杀

Hebrew：n，希伯来语

congregation：n，教堂会众

convene：v，集合，召集

stark：adj，残酷的

sentiment：n，观点，意见

inextricably：adv，不可分割的

intertwine：v，缠绕，交织

It doesn’t take adeep understanding of A to know B：要了解B并不需要对A有非常深刻的理解

xenophobe ：憎恨外来者的人；xeno外来者，陌生人 phobe 仇恨，害怕某一件事情的人；

Anti-Semitism, nativism and anti-immigrant 反犹太主义，本土主义和反移民主义

inextricably intertwined：被紧密的缠在一起；inextricably，adv，不可分开的；intertwined，v，纠缠，缠绕

faded：消失，消退

compelled sb to do sth：迫使，驱使某人做某事

rant about：对。。。大为不满