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Friend,
Yesterday I was on Capitol Hill for the Senate Judiciary
Committee’s hearing on antisemitism.
As a rabbi who has been working in politics for decades, I can
confidently say: not only are Republicans unserious about
addressing antisemitism — they are cynically using Jewish pain to
enact their cruel, antidemocratic agenda.
Watch
our new video explainer on yesterday’s antisemitism hearing, showing
how Republicans make themselves look like defenders of the Jews — all
while ignoring the dangerous and blatant antisemitism from their own
party.
Listening to the hearing was enraging because MAGA Republicans want
us to believe they’re deporting activists, attacking immigrants,
defunding education and civil rights enforcement, and eroding
democracy for Jewish safety! (Meanwhile,
they dismantled the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of
Education — the office that is literally responsible for investigating
antisemitism on college campuses! 🙄)
Antisemitism is a problem we can — and must — solve, but not in
isolation. It’s deeply connected to all other forms of discrimination
and oppression, including anti-Black racism, anti-immigrant
xenophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia, and more.
That’s why the greatest threats to American Jews today aren’t
student protesters (many of whom are Jews!) and social justice
movements — it is the white nationalist movement, its
enablers in Congress and Trump’s White House, and their efforts to
take away our freedoms and build a country only for
themselves.
We made this explainer video to spread our message loud and clear:
We see through MAGA politicians who use real Jewish fear and trauma to
advance a racist, authoritarian agenda.
Watch
and share our video with highlights from yesterday’s antisemitism
hearing, including outrageous attacks on Jewish
witnesses.
Thank you for rising with us at Bend the Arc to share that
real safety for our communities comes from building a
thriving multiracial democracy together.
In solidarity,
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