A woman attends the NO FEAR: Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People event at Capitol Hill in Washington, July 11, 2021. (Susan Walsh/AP)
WASHINGTON (JTA) Several thousand people spent a sweltering afternoon in front of the US Capitol at a rally on Sunday that denounced antisemitism as un-American and made the case that Jewish identity and support for Israel are inextricable.
Those were the unifying messages of the “No Fear” rally on Sunday, which drew about 2,000 people, but there were differences among the speakers and in the crowd on how precisely Israel figures in the fight against antisemitism.
Some of the most searing messages came from people who have suffered antisemitic attacks in recent years. A recurring theme among these speakers was that they never expected to suffer such attacks in the United States. Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Shlomo Noginsky, who sustained stab wounds in a July 1 attack in Boston, appeared with his arm still in a sling, and in evident pain.
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