Doug and I just spoke to Jon and Rachel, Hersh Goldberg-Polin's parents, to express our condolences following the brutal murder of their son by Hamas terrorists. My heart breaks for their pain and anguish. I told them: As they mourn this terrible loss, they are not alone. Our

Tel Aviv tonight. 💙💔

The number of people weaponizing Jewish pain today for political purposes is truly disgusting — from Trump and other pols, to social media accounts posting misleading videos. Just stop. Treating Jews, Israel, and the hostages as political footballs only makes us all less safe.

At his son’s funeral today, Jon Goldberg-Polin said this: “Hersh, we failed you. We all failed you. You would not have failed you. You would have pushed harder for justice. You would have worked to understand the other, to bridge differences. You would have challenged more

DC: Join us on Sept. 26 at Sixth & I, in partnership with Tree of Life & Jewish Council for Public Affairs, to discuss antisemitism, democracy, and how we build an inclusive America. Really looking forward to this conversation with Rep. Jamie Raskin & Maya Wiley, moderated by Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism’s Yolanda Savage-Narva.

Some are *shocked* that Carlson would so directly embrace Holocaust revisionism & antisemitism. This is who he’s always been. Few have done more to normalize the antisemitism & white supremacy that’s directly fueled violence against Jews & so many others. haaretz.com/us-news/2024-0…

Thread: A viral story claims Kamala Harris was involved in a 2011 hit-and-run that left a 13-year-old named Alicia Brown paralyzed. But the story is fake, and is most likely part of a pro-Kremlin disinformation operation run by an ex-Florida cop we've previously reported on.

Our CEO Amy Spitalnick talked to Morning Edition's Sarah McCammon📻 about the Vice President Kamala Harris and Douglas Emhoff's interfaith marriage, public embrace of Jewish identity and tradition, and how important that is at a moment of rising hate.

As I told NBC News: Trump’s attacks on Jews are deeply dangerous and part of the broader normalization of antisemitism. He believes that he’s entitled to Jewish support — and when we don’t give it to him, he immediately defaults to this idea of the disloyal or bad Jew.

School has barely begun and there’s already been a mass shooting. It’s. The. Guns.

“It’s deeply dangerous, deeply disturbing, and it’s part of this broader normalization of antisemitism" - Amy Spitalnick

LA friends, join me, Amy Spitalnick of Jewish Council for Public Affairs, and Jordanna Gessler of Holocaust Museum LA next Monday for a very timely conversation on antisemitism, democracy, and the great replacement theory! (I know there's irony posting here, but all more the reason!) hias.org/events/democra…