Month: 25 Nisan 5784 (May 2024)

You know what sucks? Having to have a conversation in the car with my youngest about antisemitism. But you know what's fantastic? Knowing he's going away for the weekend with a mostly-Jewish Scouts BSA troop for a camporee, and that this summer he's really looking forward to a month of all-Judaism-all-the-time at Ramah.

With the campus attacks on Jews going essentially unreported by "polite company", allows them to call these protests peaceful, which then provides moral justification for them to continue. The existence of Jews who are being physically assaulted, who are blocked from accessing their dorms or classes, who are terrorized with threats of violence and murder, all of this is so easily dismissed to allow for the label of peaceful protest. In fact, they might argue it's the presence of Jews who make it non-peaceful. It's a modern day interpretation of a "First They Ignore You, Then They Laugh at You' that feels very 1930s Germany. First They Marginalize You. Then They Ignore You. Then They Exterminate You. We're fighting for nothing less than our lives. #StudentProtests #Antisemitism