I hope this message finds you well. I want to share something deeply personal, as a Jewish person descendent of Holocaust and pogrom survivors and one who cares profoundly about both my heritage and the responsibility it carries.
While I am proud of my identity—I was bat mitzvahed at the Kotel and remain deeply connected to my ancestry—I cannot ignore the actions currently being taken by the Israeli government. I believe these actions have become one of the primary reasons people express opposition to Israel. Importantly, that opposition is not against Jews as a people, but against policies and decisions that cause profound human suffering.
In a recent (January 2025 study by the ADl called the 100 Global Index it was found that over 43% of those polled expressed antisemitic sentiment. It points to as of Oct. 7, 2023, and this is poignant.
"Antisemitic beliefs rose across the globe particularly after the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack against Israel and Israel’s war in Gaza, the ADL found. Notably, the survey found that there are significantly elevated levels of antisemitic attitudes among people under 35 compared to older people." It states this but does not elude to the atrocities that have made people clamor against the the State of Israel and their tactics, NOT the Jewish people, to be clear.
From that same article by CNN quoting the ADL Global 100 Index Survey to which the ADLs CEO Jonathan Greenblatt calls for even more military and surveillance efforts: "Greenblatt said. “It’s clear that we need new government interventions, more education, additional safeguards on social media and new security protocols to prevent antisemitic hate crimes.” This sounds like the rise of a new world order where propaganda reigns, speech is muzzled and lives are lost for the defense of the Jewish Semitic order, which is made synonymous with the Government of Israel. And this is simply not the case. Anti Semitic sentiment is actually anti Israeli Military State Offensives, including the backing of Hamas and its tactics to justify its actions.
History shows us that hatred and persecution have touched many groups—Jews, certainly, but also the Indigenious populations across the American Continent, the Chinese Americans during internment in the US, Black Americans through lynching, systemic oppression and current prison slave labor, and Christians who both suffered persecution and, at times, inflicted it in the name of faith. Not to mention so many other groups that have been obliterated through genocide.
These reminders strengthen my conviction that our duty as Jews is not only to remember our past, but also to ensure that atrocities are never carried out in our name, nor by our hands. What is unfolding in Gaza weighs heavily on me. The scale of devastation is something I struggle to reconcile, and I cannot help but see painful echoes of histories we ourselves vowed never to repeat. My commitment to Judaism and humanity is to speak out against suffering wherever it occurs, and to call for accountability, compassion, and justice.
This is a personal missive to you, from one jew to another, to appeal to your conscience and stop the hatred towards our people committing atrocities in the name of Eretz Israel.
CNN
The Guardian
The BBC
Israeli Human Rights Btselem
And countless sources both mainstream and from citizen journalists on the ground.
Children wait for food distribution from a charitable organization able to break through the blockade (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu/Getty Images)
While I am proud of my identity—I was bat mitzvahed at the Kotel and remain deeply connected to my ancestry—I cannot ignore the actions currently being taken by the Israeli government. I believe these actions have become one of the primary reasons people express opposition to Israel. Importantly, that opposition is not against Jews as a people, but against policies and decisions that cause profound human suffering.
In a recent (January 2025 study by the ADl called the 100 Global Index it was found that over 43% of those polled expressed antisemitic sentiment. It points to as of Oct. 7, 2023, and this is poignant.
"Antisemitic beliefs rose across the globe particularly after the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack against Israel and Israel’s war in Gaza, the ADL found. Notably, the survey found that there are significantly elevated levels of antisemitic attitudes among people under 35 compared to older people." It states this but does not elude to the atrocities that have made people clamor against the the State of Israel and their tactics, NOT the Jewish people, to be clear.
From that same article by CNN quoting the ADL Global 100 Index Survey to which the ADLs CEO Jonathan Greenblatt calls for even more military and surveillance efforts: "Greenblatt said. “It’s clear that we need new government interventions, more education, additional safeguards on social media and new security protocols to prevent antisemitic hate crimes.” This sounds like the rise of a new world order where propaganda reigns, speech is muzzled and lives are lost for the defense of the Jewish Semitic order, which is made synonymous with the Government of Israel. And this is simply not the case. Anti Semitic sentiment is actually anti Israeli Military State Offensives, including the backing of Hamas and its tactics to justify its actions.
History shows us that hatred and persecution have touched many groups—Jews, certainly, but also the Indigenious populations across the American Continent, the Chinese Americans during internment in the US, Black Americans through lynching, systemic oppression and current prison slave labor, and Christians who both suffered persecution and, at times, inflicted it in the name of faith. Not to mention so many other groups that have been obliterated through genocide.
These reminders strengthen my conviction that our duty as Jews is not only to remember our past, but also to ensure that atrocities are never carried out in our name, nor by our hands. What is unfolding in Gaza weighs heavily on me. The scale of devastation is something I struggle to reconcile, and I cannot help but see painful echoes of histories we ourselves vowed never to repeat. My commitment to Judaism and humanity is to speak out against suffering wherever it occurs, and to call for accountability, compassion, and justice.
This is a personal missive to you, from one jew to another, to appeal to your conscience and stop the hatred towards our people committing atrocities in the name of Eretz Israel.
CNN
The Guardian
The BBC
Israeli Human Rights Btselem
And countless sources both mainstream and from citizen journalists on the ground.
Children wait for food distribution from a charitable organization able to break through the blockade (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu/Getty Images)
Mohammed al-Mutawaq, an 18-month-old Palestinian boy with medical issues and signs of malnutrition, lies on a mattress inside a tent at the Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City on July 25. (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Getty Images)
May our humanity and common blood lines under the Abrahamic brotherhood of religions allow for G-d's children to find peace and love in their hearts with one another.
And
May there be peace in our thoughts, peace in our words and peace in our hearts,
Daniella
May our humanity and common blood lines under the Abrahamic brotherhood of religions allow for G-d's children to find peace and love in their hearts with one another.
And
May there be peace in our thoughts, peace in our words and peace in our hearts,
Daniella
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