Progressives Were Never Allies of the Jews

By the time the dust was beginning to settle on the evening of October 7, 2023, Israelis knew without a doubt that their lives had changed forever. The year ahead would surely be one of loss, fighting, mourning, praying, and surviving.

But for American Jews, it was October 8 when we began to notice that something was very wrong here at home. Beginning on that day, we saw that “prestigious” American institutions had been captured by an ideology that was largely devoid of the moral clarity necessary to denounce terrorism against Jews. Now, a full year later, and despite the attacks to which Jewish Americans have been subjected, it pains me to observe that much of American Jewry still doesn’t understand the nature of the threat that we face.

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Natan Ehrenreich

Natan Ehrenreich, a recent graduate of Yeshiva University, is a writing fellow at National Review.

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By the time the dust was beginning to settle on the evening of October 7, 2023, Israelis knew without a doubt that their lives had changed forever. The year ahead would surely be one of loss, fighting, mourning, praying, and surviving.

But for American Jews, it was October 8 when we began to notice that something was very wrong here at home. Beginning on that day, we saw that “prestigious” American institutions had been captured by an ideology that was largely devoid of the moral clarity necessary to denounce terrorism against Jews. Now, a full year later, and despite the attacks to which Jewish Americans have been subjected, it pains me to observe that much of American Jewry still doesn’t understand the nature of the threat that we face.