We’re not just fighting for Jewish safety. We’re fighting for a country where dignity isn’t divisible. The Torah tells us to choose the people—all the people. That’s our tradition. That’s our strategy. And that’s our future.
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There is no safety in accommodation with authoritarianism. There is no protection in narrowing our solidarity. The same forces that target immigrants and Palestinian rights advocates will always come for Jews—no amount of strategic silence will change that.

White supremacists have always known that Black-Jewish coalition represents an existential threat to their project. They have always worked to fracture that alliance.

Jews are not separate from other marginalized communities. We are Black, brown, queer, trans, disabled, immigrants. When the ADL abandons civil rights work, it abandons these Jews—treating Jewish safety as if it could ever be separate from the safety of all the communities we belong to.

Without a genuine Jewish civil rights organization, we lose more than a national advocacy platform. We lose institutional infrastructure for coalition building. We lose organizational memory of how to show up in multiracial movements.