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The Focus Project is a consensus initiative of major American Jewish organizations that provides crucial news, talking points and background content about issues affecting Israel and the Jewish people, including antisemitism, anti-Zionism and relevant events in the Middle East. Click here to receive weekly talking points from The Focus Project.
“Resistance” is a code word for terrorism, and “colonization” is used to describe the existence of Israel, the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people.
Antisemitism was acknowledged during a high-profile football game broadcast in the United States, yet hostility toward Israelis on the international stage drew limited reactions.
Left unchallenged, this corrodes professional standards, undermines trust and exposes institutions to legal, ethical and operational risk.
As survivors pass away and public understanding of history weakens, the Shoah is increasingly forgotten or even worse: denied, trivialized or repurposed to shock, accuse or delegitimize political targets.
And they are increasingly the day in January that honors Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to exclude Jews from civic participation.
Rather than answer for corruption, repression or failure, leaders redirect public anger toward an external enemy.
When U.S. leaders remove clear tools for standards and enforcement, extremists take notice.
Cautious optimism rests on the possibility that anti-Jewish hatred can be confronted more directly by leaders, institutions and civil society.
People all over the world have shown solidarity for the Jewish people, who have been increasingly under attack as extremism becomes more normalized.