I just got off the phone with a friend. Just a few weeks into the start of the school year, she was forced to take her son out of his high school. He received daily, relentless insults from students calling him a "Jew who murders Palestinians." Some of the teachers apparently encouraged it and the administration refused to discipline the offending students. He will now be attending a a small private school with individualized instruction, robbed of a normal high school experience because the scourge of antisemitism has become so ubiquitous and tolerated in progressive areas. I never imagined that antisemitism would reach this point in America. I still can't get over how normalized and pervasive it has become. It is now affecting almost every American Jew. And our progressive leaders, our Democratic elected officials, are either silent or encourage it. Biden says the pro-Hamas rioters have a point; Kamala says they're showing the right human emotion; Walz says they are doing it for all the right reasons. Top Democratic lawmakers like Liz Warren and AOC accuse Israel of genocide. Chris Van Hollen, Chuck Schumer's potential replacement, has devoted his time as senator to vilifying Israel and calling for an end to arms sales to Israel. Speaker Emerata Nancy Pelosi (along with over 60 other Democratic members of Congress) signed a letter urging Biden to impose an arms embargo on Israel as it fights a war for its survival. The safety and acceptance that American Jews once enjoyed in America, I fear, is irrevocably damaged. There is only one candidate and one party who has consistently stood by the Jewish community and Israel during these horrifying times. There is so much on the line this election. When you vote, remember what happened to my friend's son. Remember how much is on the line. It is a matter of our basic safety in this country at this point.
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