Why HIAS Became a Target of Hate
The aid agency has transformed itself over the past decade from a group that aids refugees because they are Jewish to a group of Jews that aids refugees.
Last week, a group known as HIAS held a “National Refugee Shabbat” in dozens of cities across the United States and Canada to raise awareness of the suffering of millions of refugees around the globe. Yesterday, Robert D. Bowers allegedly decided to shoot and kill at least 11 innocent civilians in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. In social-media posts before the shooting, Bowers had attacked HIAS and the National Refugee Shabbat.
, founded in the late-19th century as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, has in the past decade transformed itself,
