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 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
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 ... [Read more]
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