Vice President Harris marks 6 years since "unspeakable" Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

The 2018 shooting killed 11 and wounded six others during Shabbat services.

Vice President Kamala Harris connected Sunday commemorated six years since nan deadly shooting astatine Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue.

"This unspeakable enactment – fueled by antisemitic dislike – was nan deadliest onslaught connected nan American Jewish organization successful our Nation’s history," Harris said successful a statement, successful part.

On Oct. 27, 2018, a achromatic supremacist gunman opened occurrence wrong nan synagogue successful Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, sidesplitting 11 group and wounding six others during Shabbat services.

Two group support each different successful beforehand of flowers astatine a makeshift memorial astatine nan Tree of Life Synagogue successful Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 28, 2018.

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In her connection Sunday, Harris mourned nan lives that were taken that time and besides hailed nan resiliency and enduring spot of Pittsburgh's Jewish community. She besides noted nan emergence successful antisemitic incidents since nan Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas violent attacks connected Israel and vowed to proceed to combat antisemitism.

"I will ever activity to guarantee nan information and information of Jewish group successful nan United States and astir nan world, and will ever telephone retired antisemitism whenever and wherever we spot it," Harris said. "Doug and I are proud to person worked alongside President Biden to combat antisemitism, including done nan National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism."

This is nan signage connected nan dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue is pictured successful Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 13, 2023.

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"Today, Doug and I guidelines successful solidarity pinch nan survivors of this attack, nan families who mislaid loved ones, and nan full Jewish community," Harris added, referring to her husband, 2nd man Doug Emhoff.

Earlier Sunday, President Joe Biden besides marked nan day of nan Tree of Life attack, saying successful a statement that nan shootings "shattered families, pierced nan bosom of nan Jewish community, and struck nan psyche of our nation."

"For nan families of nan victims and nan survivors, this difficult time of remembrance brings it each backmost for illustration it conscionable happened – and our state holds them and their loved ones adjacent successful our hearts," Biden added.

Biden said his management remains committed to aggressively implementing nan National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.

"As nan Talmud says, 'It is not your work to decorativeness nan activity but neither are you astatine liberty to neglect it,'" Biden said successful nan statement. "On this intense time of remembrance for nan onslaught successful nan Tree of Life Synagogue, fto america travel together arsenic Americans to guarantee antisemitism and dislike successful each its forms person nary safe harbor successful America – for each nan lives we person mislaid and each those we tin still save."