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In the days following the rally, I have received numerous emails and other messages from attendees who have shared with me how impactful the experience was for them. Significant numbers also watched the rally online. Three thousand people attended our rally on July 11, from Washington California Arizona Texas Wisconsin Ohio Florida North Carolina Tennessee Massachusetts Pennsylvania New York Rhode Island New Jersey and Canada. New York Times Ignores Its Own Investigation of Journalist Slain in JeninĪ New York Times staff editorial on “What Biden Got Right on His Trip to the Middle East,” reports, “Given. He also implemented a public relations campaign to present the re-imagined rally and to publicize the event as widely as possible in the short time that remained.

Due to Wiesel’s contacts, effort and skill, by rally day, our list of co-sponsors included The Republican Jewish Coalition and the Jewish Democratic Council of America, the Orthodox Union, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the Union for Reform Judaism. We soon became a collaborative team, enacting substantial changes to the original plans in an effort to broaden the coalition politically and denominationally. Within a few weeks of planning, we were contacted by Elisha Wiesel, who had just written an op-ed calling for Jews to speak up against antisemitism and who offered to support our efforts. We incorporated a slogan into the name of the rally, calling it “No Fear: A Rally in Solidarity With the Jewish People.” It was this fear that prompted me to act: With the help of two colleagues, I began to organize a rally, despite having no funding, being in the middle of a hot Washington summer and having been warned that only a few hundred people would attend.

The result was a fragmented community suffering from internal discord and low morale-a vulnerable target for those wishing to do it harm.

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However, it was the threat from within that troubled me more.ĭespite egregious physical and verbal attacks against Jews that warranted swift and unequivocal condemnation, the Jewish community appeared to be divided in its views of when and how to respond. Hearing those stories, coupled with the more violent attacks that made national headlines, I recognized that grave dangers faced the Jewish community. JNS.org – In my capacity as the director of the nonprofit group Alliance for Israel, I hear many stories from across the United States of people who have been ostracized and attacked for their public displays of Judaism and Zionism. A group from Boston at the “No Fear: A Rally in Solidarity With the Jewish People” on the National Mall in Washington, DC, July 11, 2021.

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