I am struggling with a question that feels increasingly urgent. Like many of us, I am deeply concerned by the growing protests targeting synagogue events – and now Jewish neighborhoods themselves – often justified by the claim that these demonstrations are merely “against Israel,” while in practice they frequently target Jews, Jewish institutions, and communal spaces.

This seems especially pronounced in New York City, where the mayor – an outspoken and proudly Muslim public figure who has publicly framed opposition to a Jewish state as a central ideological position – has, in my view, not meaningfully confronted........

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