Thank you for your editorial condemning antisemitism.
I am a Jewish woman who has always been strongly connected to my faith and culture and identity as a Jew. Antisemitism — despite being warned throughout my whole life that “it could happen again”— never felt like a true threat to me living in this country. The events and tone of the last ten weeks have completely shaken me out of my naivete.
I recall the lessons that I have learned about the Holocaust. It didn’t start with death camps and gas chambers. It started with rhetoric, with trusted institutions (including the press) engaging in and perpetuating antisemitic beliefs and tropes all with the attempt to dehumanize Jews, enabling genocide to happen. To take a public stand in your paper against antisemitism takes courage and I thank you for this.
Meridith Jaffe, Colorado