This is a masterpiece. Reading it was an unfolding horror in its pinpoint accuracy. I needed to go back and read it again…slower so as to actually let it sink in.
Excellent and important. There is one larger takeaway, in my opinion. The societies of Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Islamic Asia and Africa are irredeemably and inexorably anti-Jewish. We can find "safe" places and allies for a time, but we are hated for our very contributions and creations. We are hated because our very presence undermines and denies Christianity, Islam, and even more importantly, atheism. We are hated because we assimilate and because we still don't disappear. We are hated because we have shown Greco-Romanism, and even the supposed enlightenment, to have been barbaric and not as foundational to current Western civikization as people today would like to believe.
We are the evidence of the failures of the enlightenment as well as the reformation of the enlightenment embodied by the American experiment and its Judeo-christian partnership. Christianity, atheism, and Islam are intent on destroying the evidence.
Islam despises The West. We have grown soft in Comfort and being served by others, and have thus declined into Decadence because of these things. This ideological view is shared by the Communists and the Islamists. They have seen how the bourgeois middle classes here in The West project their (wrongly placed) guilt, which is actually their fear of losing their living standards, and the cowardice and laziness which is the craven reaction to having to actually work to maintain these Economic positions, which comes with this. It is Easier for the slothfull Bourgeois children of Comfort to Adopt the Politics of The Left than to do the hard work. And so the actual and FATAL transaction I have outlined here works to Islam’s advantage. Take note. This is how countries and Nations fall: FROM THE INSIDE: Taken over and then destroyed, by either the Nazi psychopaths, or by the psychopaths of the Left like Mamdani.
Your article focuses on Hamas but would it be more accurate to assume Iran is behind what you are describing?
Look at how Iran is toying with Trump. A strategy designed to prolong the standoff until the midterm elections. It is obvious that U.S. progressives are advising Iran. And U.S. media are amplifying the propaganda.
Until recently it was an assumed “truth” that Jews controlled Hollywood and the news media. Like the universities, the media has turned against Jews. Why? How?
Maybe American Jews should get together and buy Warner Brothers studios and take over CNN. Fire the producers who airing the antisemitism propaganda!
Some tough love: I really love Future of Jewish, but I really hate the increase in AI slop. This is a particularly egregious example. You don't even have to consult Pangram to know that it's AI-generated (the "It's not X, it's Y" occurs dozens of times in this piece, like a verbal tic). https://www.pangram.com/history/a8ca5dfc-c36a-4ca8-870d-13262968d4cd?ucc=GdczJ9YdRNo
Interesting. I read that "verbal tic" as the theme of the whole piece, driving and unifying the essay. Is there a way to know the extent that the final version was AI and not something with a lot of the author's ideas and sensitilities?
Brilliant. It brings into clarity why they hate Netanyahu and Trump so intensely. They disrupt their plans, although at the same time they fuel the rhetoric to feed the millions of useful idiots chained like slaves to the far left social media releases by the Democrat Marxist-Socialist-Islamic Party. Blue haired LGBTQ+ may be the dumbest bunch of serfs in history... maybe even proving to be dumber than the Russians who bought wholly into Lenin and Stalin's Bolshevik Revolution. The blue-hairs are so easily manipulated and controlled, and yes, it does make me nervous how many are in politically powerful positions. And don't doubt for a second that Satan's not at the head of the table dealing out all these liberal biases cards.
Astute analysis — of an millennials old phenomenon.
"The question is whether a framework that structurally excludes an entire people [Jews] from the category of the protectable deserves the institutional authority it has been granted."
This essay needs to be broadcast well beyond Future of Jewish.
Consider submitting it to the Tablet and even political science journals as a study of organized manipulation of public opinion for political and military strategic purposes.
Frame Jews as the proverbial canary in the coal mine.
Point out that there are many other groups which may next be targeted for demonization to coalesce a society around policy undermining democratic, liberal values.
Argue that that the ultimate goal of these propaganda mills is not the destruction of Israel, but nothing less than bringing down Western Civilization itself.
Demonstrate the validity of this claim, for starter through:
1. Disambiguation of the five street slogans beginning with "Free Palestine" and ending with "Resistance by any Means" to reveal they are calls to commit genocide;
2. Critically dismantle the five core CRT principles,
3. Quote from Mohamed Akram, senior Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood figure, 1991 document, "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America, uncovered by the FBI.
The framework of anti Zionism works as the framework for anti Americanism. We are a nation founded....in this framework on displacement of the indigenous and chattel slavery. Therefore we are formed by sin and that stain is forever. Forget how brilliant our founders were. Forget the expansion of this nation as a force for good.....The Palestinians are not analigous to American Indians. Israel's history is not that of America....but Great Satan and Little Satan are now joined together. The DSA is now the organization using the same techniques as hamas to bring about the final defeat of this nation and its dismemberment. I see that the Northeast is fertile ground for DSA but can the great middle of this nation really be suckered too?
Gaza should never become a state and all Hamas and Palestinians must be removed or eliminated. Gaza, Judea, and Samaria are Jewish property and to hell with the world and the propaganda. Islamists will never agree to Israeli homeland.
I have found there’s only one way to cut through the all the nonsense coming from universities, actors, governments, Kristof-style bloviators, social justice trust fund warriors, and all the rest.
And that’s to ask one simple question:
What should Israel have done after burying its October 7th dead knowing Hamas WANTED all of Gaza citizenry to die as a worthy sacrifice to a larger goal?
The first question gets a set of responses that always feels weak, even to the responder.
“Targeted Operations” - Israel couldn’t find its hostage in over two years. How exactly does targeted operations work when there’s no human intelligence in Gaza.
“Proportional Response” — what does that even mean when children watch their parents die, parents watch their children die, women are raped and sodomized, the old and sick are spirited into tunnels as bargaining chips.
“Take advantage of worldwide sympathy to isolate Hamas” — what sympathy and how does that even provide any measure of justice to those killed.
“Israel should have shown restraint” — would any country in the world show “restraint in similar circumstances. The US killed huge amount of civilians in Mosul and the US homeland wasn’t even threatened by ISIS.
See what I mean? Asking the question pushes aside all the discussion of proportion, restraint, and genocide.and surfaces the base reality:
Israel had a horrible choice after October 7. It could “show restraint” and implode as a nation and homeland for many, many reasons. Or it could kill tens of thousands of innocents. That was the choice.
It is that simple.
Whether Israel was justified in killing the thousands of innocents that Hamas wanted killed is the ONLY discussion we should be having. And there IS a moral case that nothing justifies killing so many Gazan innocents at any time for any reason. But that’s a discussion I’m willing to have because it’s an honest discussion. And it forces Israel’s most vehement critics to jettison slogans and pat conclusions and perhaps even reach a point of empathy with the dilemma Israel faced.
If we can’t get to that discussion, every interaction with those who would see Israel dissolved begins and ends with Israelis — and by extension Jews — as evil human beings deserving of the worst fate possible.
So, again, the only discussion / questions we should be having is:
What should Israel have done after burying its dead and knowing Hamas wanted to see the whole of Gazan citizenry die?
Everything else, I would submit, is just unhelpful noise.
Matt, are you saying that antisemitism is not fixable and the only thing Jews can do is to demolish all the institutions that promote it? Or even then, just like other viruses, it will go dormant but not eradicated. Is superintelligence AI (as postulated by Mark Z) is the “thing” that will be used to eradicate viruses sitting dormant in infected institutions?
Good piece. This was obvious from the beginning. I bet the Hamasers in Qatar are disappointed that Israel did not use a nuclear weapon and are still working to provoke its use, which is the real point of Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
America's Jewish Institutions Are Failing Their Jews. Republicans and Evangelicals Aren't.
American Jews are among the most politically sophisticated people in the country. Which makes their collective blind spot on this question all the more alarming.
The institutions American Jews built, funded, and trusted to protect them are failing them. Systematically. Measurably. At the precise moment protection matters most.
The ADL spent years expanding its mission into generalized progressive advocacy — hate speech, gun control, immigration — while antisemitic incidents broke annual records for four consecutive years on its watch. The Jewish Federations raise billions annually yet Jewish students are being physically driven off American university campuses that Jewish philanthropy helped build and endow. J Street spent a decade providing political cover for politicians hostile to Israel while dressing that hostility in Jewish vocabulary. The Democratic Party — recipient of decades of overwhelming Jewish votes, Jewish money, and Jewish organizational loyalty — now contains a vocal, growing, and institutionally powerful wing that treats Zionism as racism, Israel as a pariah state, and Jewish self-defense as a war crime. And the Jewish organizational world's response has been to issue nuanced statements, convene emergency summits, and donate to the next cycle of the same politicians.
Meanwhile the universities American Jews funded, attended, and celebrated as the pinnacle of enlightened democratic values have become the primary incubators of the most sophisticated and dangerous antisemitic ideological framework since the 1930s — and done so on Jewish donors' dimes.
These institutions are not failing Jews accidentally. They are failing Jews structurally — because the ideological frameworks now dominating them are fundamentally incompatible with Jewish particularism, Israeli sovereignty, and the right of the Jewish people to defend themselves without apology.
Here is the uncomfortable truth that American Jewish leadership refuses to say plainly:
The most powerful, reliable, and numerically overwhelming defenders of Israel and American Jewish life right now are Evangelical Christians and Republican leadership.
Christians United for Israel has over ten million members — more than the entire American Jewish population. Ten million organized, politically active, biblically committed Christian Zionists who vote at high rates, contact their representatives, and have zero ambivalence about Israel's absolute right to exist and defend itself. Their support is unconditional, generational, and rooted in something no political fashion can easily erode — scripture.
Republican leadership, whatever its domestic policy differences with the majority of American Jews, has been unambiguous on Israel when it counts. On Iran. On funding. On vetoing hostile UN resolutions. On recognizing Jerusalem. On confronting campus antisemitism that Jewish organizational leadership spent years tiptoeing around while Jewish students were being driven off campuses.
Gallup now shows that for the first time in 25 years Americans no longer sympathize more with Israel than Palestinians — a shift driven almost entirely by Democrats and the progressive left that American Jewish organizations spent decades funding, cultivating, and protecting.
The Jewish organizational world spent enormous energy making sure its most powerful natural allies feel unwelcome — too religious, too conservative, too socially different — while pouring resources into a coalition that is visibly, measurably abandoning them.
This is not a political argument. It is a survival argument.
When Jewish schools need armed guards to function. When Jewish students need escorts to cross American campuses. When the institutions built explicitly to fight antisemitism have been repurposed into general progressive advocacy shops that treat Jewish institutional concerns as one agenda item among many — the evidence is in. The institutions have failed. The coalition has failed.
The Evangelical Christian standing in Congress declaring Israel's absolute right to defend itself is doing more for Jewish survival than the Jewish organization hosting its annual gala while writing checks to politicians who cannot condemn Hamas without a qualifier.
American Jews are politically intelligent enough to understand this. The question is whether they are honest enough to act on it — before the cost of that particular comfort becomes something no fundraising dinner can address.
There is a conversation happening in every serious American Jewish living room, boardroom, and synagogue that nobody in official Jewish organizational life will say out loud.
Our institutions are failing us.
The infrastructure American Jews built over the last half century was designed for a different threat — and has catastrophically failed to adapt to the one we actually face.
The ADL was built to fight right-wing antisemitism — not an ideological movement embedded inside the universities and political coalitions that Jewish philanthropy itself helped fund. The Jewish Federations were built for a period of American goodwill that no longer exists. AIPAC was built to lobby a bipartisan Washington that is gone.
Every one of these organizations is fighting the last war with last century's weapons.
The results are damning. Antisemitic incidents have broken annual records. Gallup shows for the first time in 25 years Americans no longer sympathize more with Israel than Palestinians — driven almost entirely by the progressive coalition Jewish organizational money spent decades supporting.
Meanwhile our most powerful and reliable defenders — ten million Evangelical Christians and Republican leadership — are kept at arm's length over domestic policy differences while the coalition we've invested in for decades debates whether Zionism is racism.
However, publicly demolishing our own institutions hands ammunition to our enemies and drives donors out of the fight entirely. But pretending these organizations are performing adequately is a lie the Jewish community can no longer afford to tell itself.
So the question that demands an honest answer is this:
How do we force transformation — measurable outcomes not galas, offensive strategy not press releases, real electoral consequences not statements — from institutions that have every incentive to protect themselves and almost none to fundamentally change?
Who applies that pressure? Who holds them accountable? And how do we do it before the cost of their failure becomes something no fundraising dinner can address? I don't have the answer.
Wow! Just…Wow!
This is a masterpiece. Reading it was an unfolding horror in its pinpoint accuracy. I needed to go back and read it again…slower so as to actually let it sink in.
Excellent and important. There is one larger takeaway, in my opinion. The societies of Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Islamic Asia and Africa are irredeemably and inexorably anti-Jewish. We can find "safe" places and allies for a time, but we are hated for our very contributions and creations. We are hated because our very presence undermines and denies Christianity, Islam, and even more importantly, atheism. We are hated because we assimilate and because we still don't disappear. We are hated because we have shown Greco-Romanism, and even the supposed enlightenment, to have been barbaric and not as foundational to current Western civikization as people today would like to believe.
We are the evidence of the failures of the enlightenment as well as the reformation of the enlightenment embodied by the American experiment and its Judeo-christian partnership. Christianity, atheism, and Islam are intent on destroying the evidence.
"We are hated because our very presence undermines and denies Christianity, Islam, and even more importantly, atheism." Very interesting.
Islam despises The West. We have grown soft in Comfort and being served by others, and have thus declined into Decadence because of these things. This ideological view is shared by the Communists and the Islamists. They have seen how the bourgeois middle classes here in The West project their (wrongly placed) guilt, which is actually their fear of losing their living standards, and the cowardice and laziness which is the craven reaction to having to actually work to maintain these Economic positions, which comes with this. It is Easier for the slothfull Bourgeois children of Comfort to Adopt the Politics of The Left than to do the hard work. And so the actual and FATAL transaction I have outlined here works to Islam’s advantage. Take note. This is how countries and Nations fall: FROM THE INSIDE: Taken over and then destroyed, by either the Nazi psychopaths, or by the psychopaths of the Left like Mamdani.
Your article focuses on Hamas but would it be more accurate to assume Iran is behind what you are describing?
Look at how Iran is toying with Trump. A strategy designed to prolong the standoff until the midterm elections. It is obvious that U.S. progressives are advising Iran. And U.S. media are amplifying the propaganda.
Until recently it was an assumed “truth” that Jews controlled Hollywood and the news media. Like the universities, the media has turned against Jews. Why? How?
Maybe American Jews should get together and buy Warner Brothers studios and take over CNN. Fire the producers who airing the antisemitism propaganda!
Some tough love: I really love Future of Jewish, but I really hate the increase in AI slop. This is a particularly egregious example. You don't even have to consult Pangram to know that it's AI-generated (the "It's not X, it's Y" occurs dozens of times in this piece, like a verbal tic). https://www.pangram.com/history/a8ca5dfc-c36a-4ca8-870d-13262968d4cd?ucc=GdczJ9YdRNo
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Interesting. I read that "verbal tic" as the theme of the whole piece, driving and unifying the essay. Is there a way to know the extent that the final version was AI and not something with a lot of the author's ideas and sensitilities?
According to Pangram (most reliable detector), this text is 100% AI-generated. I suspect it was generated on the basis of a collection of notes or bullet points, then fed to AI. Or at least it was heavily rewritten by AI. https://www.pangram.com/history/a8ca5dfc-c36a-4ca8-870d-13262968d4cd?ucc=GdczJ9YdRNo
Ah, but was your comment written by AI :-)
ya missed the point of the piece-AIophobic rant
Brilliant. It brings into clarity why they hate Netanyahu and Trump so intensely. They disrupt their plans, although at the same time they fuel the rhetoric to feed the millions of useful idiots chained like slaves to the far left social media releases by the Democrat Marxist-Socialist-Islamic Party. Blue haired LGBTQ+ may be the dumbest bunch of serfs in history... maybe even proving to be dumber than the Russians who bought wholly into Lenin and Stalin's Bolshevik Revolution. The blue-hairs are so easily manipulated and controlled, and yes, it does make me nervous how many are in politically powerful positions. And don't doubt for a second that Satan's not at the head of the table dealing out all these liberal biases cards.
Astute analysis — of an millennials old phenomenon.
"The question is whether a framework that structurally excludes an entire people [Jews] from the category of the protectable deserves the institutional authority it has been granted."
This essay needs to be broadcast well beyond Future of Jewish.
Consider submitting it to the Tablet and even political science journals as a study of organized manipulation of public opinion for political and military strategic purposes.
Frame Jews as the proverbial canary in the coal mine.
Point out that there are many other groups which may next be targeted for demonization to coalesce a society around policy undermining democratic, liberal values.
Argue that that the ultimate goal of these propaganda mills is not the destruction of Israel, but nothing less than bringing down Western Civilization itself.
Demonstrate the validity of this claim, for starter through:
1. Disambiguation of the five street slogans beginning with "Free Palestine" and ending with "Resistance by any Means" to reveal they are calls to commit genocide;
2. Critically dismantle the five core CRT principles,
3. Quote from Mohamed Akram, senior Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood figure, 1991 document, "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America, uncovered by the FBI.
The framework of anti Zionism works as the framework for anti Americanism. We are a nation founded....in this framework on displacement of the indigenous and chattel slavery. Therefore we are formed by sin and that stain is forever. Forget how brilliant our founders were. Forget the expansion of this nation as a force for good.....The Palestinians are not analigous to American Indians. Israel's history is not that of America....but Great Satan and Little Satan are now joined together. The DSA is now the organization using the same techniques as hamas to bring about the final defeat of this nation and its dismemberment. I see that the Northeast is fertile ground for DSA but can the great middle of this nation really be suckered too?
Gaza should never become a state and all Hamas and Palestinians must be removed or eliminated. Gaza, Judea, and Samaria are Jewish property and to hell with the world and the propaganda. Islamists will never agree to Israeli homeland.
As valid as it is, I’m afraid it is verbal diarrhoea.
Stop using the word Progressive or Liberal.
The Left is now Communist.
I have found there’s only one way to cut through the all the nonsense coming from universities, actors, governments, Kristof-style bloviators, social justice trust fund warriors, and all the rest.
And that’s to ask one simple question:
What should Israel have done after burying its October 7th dead knowing Hamas WANTED all of Gaza citizenry to die as a worthy sacrifice to a larger goal?
The first question gets a set of responses that always feels weak, even to the responder.
“Targeted Operations” - Israel couldn’t find its hostage in over two years. How exactly does targeted operations work when there’s no human intelligence in Gaza.
“Proportional Response” — what does that even mean when children watch their parents die, parents watch their children die, women are raped and sodomized, the old and sick are spirited into tunnels as bargaining chips.
“Take advantage of worldwide sympathy to isolate Hamas” — what sympathy and how does that even provide any measure of justice to those killed.
“Israel should have shown restraint” — would any country in the world show “restraint in similar circumstances. The US killed huge amount of civilians in Mosul and the US homeland wasn’t even threatened by ISIS.
See what I mean? Asking the question pushes aside all the discussion of proportion, restraint, and genocide.and surfaces the base reality:
Israel had a horrible choice after October 7. It could “show restraint” and implode as a nation and homeland for many, many reasons. Or it could kill tens of thousands of innocents. That was the choice.
It is that simple.
Whether Israel was justified in killing the thousands of innocents that Hamas wanted killed is the ONLY discussion we should be having. And there IS a moral case that nothing justifies killing so many Gazan innocents at any time for any reason. But that’s a discussion I’m willing to have because it’s an honest discussion. And it forces Israel’s most vehement critics to jettison slogans and pat conclusions and perhaps even reach a point of empathy with the dilemma Israel faced.
If we can’t get to that discussion, every interaction with those who would see Israel dissolved begins and ends with Israelis — and by extension Jews — as evil human beings deserving of the worst fate possible.
So, again, the only discussion / questions we should be having is:
What should Israel have done after burying its dead and knowing Hamas wanted to see the whole of Gazan citizenry die?
Everything else, I would submit, is just unhelpful noise.
Matt, are you saying that antisemitism is not fixable and the only thing Jews can do is to demolish all the institutions that promote it? Or even then, just like other viruses, it will go dormant but not eradicated. Is superintelligence AI (as postulated by Mark Z) is the “thing” that will be used to eradicate viruses sitting dormant in infected institutions?
Good piece. This was obvious from the beginning. I bet the Hamasers in Qatar are disappointed that Israel did not use a nuclear weapon and are still working to provoke its use, which is the real point of Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
America's Jewish Institutions Are Failing Their Jews. Republicans and Evangelicals Aren't.
American Jews are among the most politically sophisticated people in the country. Which makes their collective blind spot on this question all the more alarming.
The institutions American Jews built, funded, and trusted to protect them are failing them. Systematically. Measurably. At the precise moment protection matters most.
The ADL spent years expanding its mission into generalized progressive advocacy — hate speech, gun control, immigration — while antisemitic incidents broke annual records for four consecutive years on its watch. The Jewish Federations raise billions annually yet Jewish students are being physically driven off American university campuses that Jewish philanthropy helped build and endow. J Street spent a decade providing political cover for politicians hostile to Israel while dressing that hostility in Jewish vocabulary. The Democratic Party — recipient of decades of overwhelming Jewish votes, Jewish money, and Jewish organizational loyalty — now contains a vocal, growing, and institutionally powerful wing that treats Zionism as racism, Israel as a pariah state, and Jewish self-defense as a war crime. And the Jewish organizational world's response has been to issue nuanced statements, convene emergency summits, and donate to the next cycle of the same politicians.
Meanwhile the universities American Jews funded, attended, and celebrated as the pinnacle of enlightened democratic values have become the primary incubators of the most sophisticated and dangerous antisemitic ideological framework since the 1930s — and done so on Jewish donors' dimes.
These institutions are not failing Jews accidentally. They are failing Jews structurally — because the ideological frameworks now dominating them are fundamentally incompatible with Jewish particularism, Israeli sovereignty, and the right of the Jewish people to defend themselves without apology.
Here is the uncomfortable truth that American Jewish leadership refuses to say plainly:
The most powerful, reliable, and numerically overwhelming defenders of Israel and American Jewish life right now are Evangelical Christians and Republican leadership.
Christians United for Israel has over ten million members — more than the entire American Jewish population. Ten million organized, politically active, biblically committed Christian Zionists who vote at high rates, contact their representatives, and have zero ambivalence about Israel's absolute right to exist and defend itself. Their support is unconditional, generational, and rooted in something no political fashion can easily erode — scripture.
Republican leadership, whatever its domestic policy differences with the majority of American Jews, has been unambiguous on Israel when it counts. On Iran. On funding. On vetoing hostile UN resolutions. On recognizing Jerusalem. On confronting campus antisemitism that Jewish organizational leadership spent years tiptoeing around while Jewish students were being driven off campuses.
Gallup now shows that for the first time in 25 years Americans no longer sympathize more with Israel than Palestinians — a shift driven almost entirely by Democrats and the progressive left that American Jewish organizations spent decades funding, cultivating, and protecting.
The Jewish organizational world spent enormous energy making sure its most powerful natural allies feel unwelcome — too religious, too conservative, too socially different — while pouring resources into a coalition that is visibly, measurably abandoning them.
This is not a political argument. It is a survival argument.
When Jewish schools need armed guards to function. When Jewish students need escorts to cross American campuses. When the institutions built explicitly to fight antisemitism have been repurposed into general progressive advocacy shops that treat Jewish institutional concerns as one agenda item among many — the evidence is in. The institutions have failed. The coalition has failed.
The Evangelical Christian standing in Congress declaring Israel's absolute right to defend itself is doing more for Jewish survival than the Jewish organization hosting its annual gala while writing checks to politicians who cannot condemn Hamas without a qualifier.
American Jews are politically intelligent enough to understand this. The question is whether they are honest enough to act on it — before the cost of that particular comfort becomes something no fundraising dinner can address.
There is a conversation happening in every serious American Jewish living room, boardroom, and synagogue that nobody in official Jewish organizational life will say out loud.
Our institutions are failing us.
The infrastructure American Jews built over the last half century was designed for a different threat — and has catastrophically failed to adapt to the one we actually face.
The ADL was built to fight right-wing antisemitism — not an ideological movement embedded inside the universities and political coalitions that Jewish philanthropy itself helped fund. The Jewish Federations were built for a period of American goodwill that no longer exists. AIPAC was built to lobby a bipartisan Washington that is gone.
Every one of these organizations is fighting the last war with last century's weapons.
The results are damning. Antisemitic incidents have broken annual records. Gallup shows for the first time in 25 years Americans no longer sympathize more with Israel than Palestinians — driven almost entirely by the progressive coalition Jewish organizational money spent decades supporting.
Meanwhile our most powerful and reliable defenders — ten million Evangelical Christians and Republican leadership — are kept at arm's length over domestic policy differences while the coalition we've invested in for decades debates whether Zionism is racism.
However, publicly demolishing our own institutions hands ammunition to our enemies and drives donors out of the fight entirely. But pretending these organizations are performing adequately is a lie the Jewish community can no longer afford to tell itself.
So the question that demands an honest answer is this:
How do we force transformation — measurable outcomes not galas, offensive strategy not press releases, real electoral consequences not statements — from institutions that have every incentive to protect themselves and almost none to fundamentally change?
Who applies that pressure? Who holds them accountable? And how do we do it before the cost of their failure becomes something no fundraising dinner can address? I don't have the answer.
Because they are so wedded to the left that they refused to acknowledge it.
Because "progressives", in their ego driven, narcissistic self-assurance of being always on the right side of history, refuse to listen to anybody.