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In the days following the shooting of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last weekend, the media found that some of the hospital staff where the suspect was treated were Jews. Robert Bowers, accused of killing 11 people, was taken in by a nurse, who was the son of a rabbi, said Jeffrey Cohen, a senior administrator at Allegheny General Hospital, when of an interview with CNN.
"Is not it ironic that someone who screams in the ambulance and at the hospital" I want to kill all the Jews "is taken care of by a Jewish nurse and that 39, a Jewish hospital president comes to watch him then, he says
Yesterday (November 3), Ari Mahler, this nurse, decided to speak on her behalf, as he explained in a public message posted on Facebook: "I am the Jewish nurse".
"Yes, this Jewish nurse," says Mahler, the rabbi's son. "The same thing we're talking about in the Pittsburgh shooting that killed 11 people. The emergency trauma nurse who looked after Robert Bowers shouted "Death to all Jews" while being taken to the hospital. The Jewish nurse who ran into a room to save her life. "
Mahler describes how strange it is for him to hear people calling him something unintentionally Jewish in a pejorative sense. "When I was a child, I experienced a lot of anti-Semitism," he says. "It's hard to say if this has always been the product of real hatred or if kids with their own problems found a reason to distinguish myself from others." Other kids from her school left drawings of gas chambers on his desk and drew swastikas on his locker.
Anti-Semitism followed him until adulthood. "As an adult, turn away my religion by saying," I'm not religious, "so it's easier for people to accept that I'm Jewish, especially when I tell them that my dad is a rabbi, "he writes.
He was not surprised by the attack on the Tree of Life, and he presumes another mass fire will take place. "My heart longs for change, but today's climate does not promote education, tolerance or civility," he said.
When he looked into Bowers' eyes, he wrote, he saw confusion, not evil.
"I'm sure he had no idea of my Jewish identity. Why thank a Jewish nurse, when 15 minutes in advance, you shot me in the head without any remorse? I did not tell him a word of my religion. I chose to say nothing to him all the time. I wanted him to feel compassion. I chose to show him empathy. I felt that the best way to honor his victims was that a Jew proved him the opposite. Moreover, if he discovers that I am Jewish, is it really important? The best question is, what does it mean for you? "
"Love, that's the reason I did it," he writes towards the end of his message. "Love as an action is more powerful than words, and l & # 39; Love to evil gives hope to others. "
Love, he writes, "is the only message."
Read the rest of his Facebook letter below:
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