Stepping Outside into the Storm
Well, my friends, the tempest of anti-semitism is raging, and not just in a land divinely located between a river and a sea, but on university campuses and on the streets of our cities. Protests are one thing. I serve in a non-profit that leads protests. People have a right to voice their concerns and speak their minds. The right to freely gather and to free speech, even speech with which I vehemently disagree, is protected under our U.S. Constitution's 1st Amendment. But protests whose soundtrack devolves into a type of chanting that vocalizes a hunger for genocide is something else entirely. "Protests" that cause our Jewish brothers and sisters to lock themselves into a library at The Cooper Union because they fear for their own safety. My friends, this should not be.
