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Three years ago, Hamas-led terrorists murdered nearly 1,200 people in Israel and raped and brutalized countless women. The stories from that day are painful to revisit: a nine-month-old shot dead in her mother's arms, a father killed in front of his two young sons. But we owe the victims the honesty of remembering what was done to them.


Some have tried to explain the attackers' motives as a product of poverty or mistreatment. That is absurd. Millions endure poverty, repression and war without murdering their neighbors. Treating atrocity as a predictable response to hardship insults those who suffer, and it shifts our attention from the victims to the grievances of their killers. The responsibility rests with the perpetrators and the institutions that taught them to hate.


The hatred behind Oct. 7 is not confined to the Middle East. Here in America, Israeli embassy employees were gunned down outside a Jewish museum in Washington. An attack in Boulder on people advocating for hostages ultimately killed an 82-year-old woman. This March, an attacker rammed a vehicle into a Michigan synagogue with 140 children inside. Antisemitic assaults, vandalism and harassment hit a 46-year high in 2024, and every synagogue, Jewish school and community center now has to plan for its own security. No other religious or ethnic group in America faces threats like these.


Worse, antisemitism is being mainstreamed in our politics and culture, from both the left and the right.


Those of us who are not Jewish need to stand in solidarity with the Jewish people. Our Jewish friends and neighbors should not have to guess where we stand.


That is the argument I made in the Star Tribune yesterday, and I hope you'll read it.


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Jim Schultz

President & CEO

Minnesota Private Business Council

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