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Dear Friends,

There’s always more to say about the many complex issues we focus on at J
Street. That’s why last year, I undertook a new effort to offer my own
commentary in my own words. I’m particularly interested in finding a voice
of values-based moderation that cuts through an otherwise deafening media
ecosystem that favors the extremes.

My new project is called Word on the Street, and [ [link removed] ]you can subscribe to
it on Substack here. For a quick preview of my latest entry on the dangers
of rising fascism at home and around the world, see below.

– Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street President

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Fascism Rising

American Jewish leaders and institutions: Will you fight back against
right-wing threats to our democracy and way of life with the same
intensity you campaign against Israel's critics on the left?

In the late 1930s, the Jewish leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky frantically
crisscrossed Eastern Europe warning Jews of impending “catastrophe.” The
Jews of Europe were living precariously, he prophesied, on the edge of a
‘volcano,’ at risk of being consumed by its flames.

Establishment Jewish leaders wrongly dismissed his warnings – perhaps
blinded by opposition to his militant, right-wing views in the Zionist
debates of the time. His warnings unheeded, the fires he foresaw consumed
much of European Jewry.

I’m reminded of Jabotinsky now as I sense an ominous storm gathering that
threatens the democratic, rules-based world order undergirding global
stability for the past 75 years ... [[ [link removed] ]Read more]

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