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We Are the Luckiest Jews Who Have Ever Lived
Ben Freeman
July 13, 2026

For three years we have watched Jew-hatred erupt on campus, online, inside political movements, and among people we once called friends. Institutions we helped build, funded, and sat on the boards of have turned away from us and showed us exactly what they were made of: incubators of old hatred now decked with new jargon. Many of us feel betrayed and bewildered. But rather than wallow in sadness, recognize that these betrayals provide us with information. These institutions were not always rotten; something in them changed over the last decade: Principle was traded for donor comfort, standards for slogans, scrutiny for the easier feeling of being on the right side of a hashtag. Oct. 7 did not create that rot. It was the storm that hit at the exact moment the hull had already given out, and the whole world got to see which vessels were still seaworthy. Ours went down first, because they had already been rotting for years. Throwing us over the side was simply what they did to survive a little longer. READ MORE