“A shelter that destroys the house is not safety”

When Jews Start Looking for Safety in the Wrong Places

One of the ugliest political facts of our time is this: many Jews now feel less protected by the liberal world than by forces openly hostile to liberalism.

That should terrify everyone.

For decades, Jews were told that democratic institutions, human rights language, independent courts, free media, and international norms were their best protection. Historically, that was largely true. No order ever gave Jews perfect safety, but liberal constitutional states gave minorities more protection than almost any system before them.

Now that confidence is breaking.

Across Europe, North America, and Latin America, many Jews increasingly feel that the institutions that speak most loudly about tolerance, diversity, and human dignity are often slow, evasive, or cowardly when Jews are the ones under pressure. They see anti-Israel hatred sliding into open antisemitism. They see “context” offered where clarity is needed. They see threats explained away, minimized, sociologized, or folded into ideological fashions that somehow always leave Jews exposed.

And when........

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