|| Fighting the Good Fight: How All of Us Can Combat Antisemitism

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Antisemitism can seem to be so persistent, so prevalent, so entrenched, it’s easy to think one individual can’t do anything to help combat it. Not so. See the three articles linked below.

Quote: “If you or a loved one experience anti-Semitism, report it immediately. The ADL has an online form where you can report any incidents of ‘anti-Semitism, extremism, bias, bigotry or hate.’ Note, this is not just for people who experienced anti-Jewish hostility. This is for anyone targeted for their ‘religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or level of ability.’ Reportable activity could be anything from seeing a hate symbol on the street to kids getting bullied at school or online.”
— Yahoo.com | CNN

Learn more about antisemitism from Wikipedia. ►

Read “As antisemitism grows, so does its dangers to everyone. Here’s how you can fight against it” ►

Read “How to Fight Anti-Semitism” ►

Read “Students Fighting Antisemitism Use Legal Tool That Tests Power at US Colleges” ►

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“[T]he foundations for extremism usually are held in check by various restraints. Societies are not liberal, moderate, progressive, and free because almost all their citizens – let alone their politicians — are liberal, moderate, progressive or committed to the freedoms of others.

“But societies consistently avoid extremism when the infrastructures of freedom are strong: when key institutions and norms encourage a more decent, rights-respective, lawful politics; when powerful social movements and independent media hold leaders to account, expose rather than reinforce political fantasies, and champion the rights of the vulnerable; and when information is produced and scrutinized by scholars, civil servants, and non-governmental organizations devoid of either government repression or vested interests.

“Yet no infrastructure is rigidly immovable, and once key components are eroded and weakened, once sections of the political and cultural elite attempt to mobilize the foundations of extremism, the system of restraints can swiftly collapse.

“While genocide on the scale of the Holocaust is historically exceptional, its central lesson is that the broader danger of extreme atrocities is not. In the words of the great historian Ian Kershaw, the Holocaust ‘lit a warning beacon that still burns brightly: it showed how a modern, advanced, cultured society can so rapidly sink into barbarity… It showed what we are capable of.’ Only by rejecting false narratives of conflict and polarization, and maintaining systems of rights and freedoms for all, can we hope to prevent that capability from once more becoming a reality.”

— Jonathan Leader Maynard in his incisive article “Could It Happen Here?: The Holocaust and Atrocities in the 21st Century” To read the entire article, click here.