“Trump is thus both a cause & a symptom of the distemper in our national life. On the climate & so many other questions, the nation has about five months to realize that very big things are at stake in November’s choice.”

Wise EJ Dionne is not playing.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

For the second anniversary, we Southern Poverty Law Center were pleased to join a Western States Center-led coalition letter urging Members of Congress to reject & repudiate inciting rhetoric that helped lead to this racist tragedy.
Words matter.
Words can kill.
#RememberBuffalo
westernstatescenter.org/national-coali…

'The letter from the Southern Poverty Law Center pushes Johnson & Police Supt. Larry Snelling to reconsider the decision not to take disciplinary action against eight officers connected to the Oath Keepers.'
chicago.suntimes.com/extremism-in-t…
Tom Schuba Dan Mihalopoulos

This is a great interview of Amy Spitalnick Jewish Council for Public Affairs by Andrew Silow-Carroll JTA | Jewish news

It all sounds so reasonable!

When our policy opponents try to divide our communities, we see it — and we reject it.

We Southern Poverty Law Center joined an important Western States Center letter
“Despite the clear danger that amplifying the Great Replacement Theory poses, members of Congress have referred to peaceful migrants & asylum seekers as “invaders”/as an “invasion” at least 127 times”
westernstatescenter.org/pressreleasear…

Hail ⁦The Leadership Conference⁩ for this essential #hatecrime report. Very pleased to have contributed — & to the earlier ones.

“Even though the most recent data show the highest number of reported hate crimes on record, we know the reality is far worse.” civilrights.org/edfund/resourc…

We at SPLC Action Fund signed this strong letter and applaud The Leadership Conference leadership on the issue.

This bill “would put the accuracy of the multi-billion dollar, constitutionally required decennial census at grave risk in every state and community.”

Just that.
Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)

Here’s a link to the very helpful new ED Civil Rights guidance on handling allegations of #antisemitic discrimination in K-12 schools & on university campuses

www2.ed.gov/about/offices/…

Hail ED Civil Rights & its brilliant leader Catherine E. Lhamon

New guidance on what constitutes actionable #antisemitism & other forms of shared ethnic characteristic discrimination.

You can’t be serious about campus antisemitism if you don’t support more funding for this agency.

'education about the #Holocaust could & should provide insight into how & why people commit such atrocities...It should also compel Americans to confront the tragedies in our own national history.' splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024…
Southern Poverty Law Center
Learning for Justice
#YomHaShoah

Instead of banning the reading of the “Diary of Anne Frank,” we should incorporate the Diary into discussions on identity, exclusion, and persecution.
Learn how with Learning for Justice⁩
#Holocaust
#YomHaShoah
⁦Southern Poverty Law Center⁩ learningforjustice.org/professional-d…

No amount of money for security cameras & bullet-proof glass can guarantee the security of Jewish & other at risk institutions.

Our community should focus work to complement these funds with more money for long term education & prevention initiatives. jewishinsider.com/2024/05/nonpro…

“the neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville in 2017 was “like a peanut compared to the riots & the anti-Israel protests that are happening all over our country…vowed, if elected, to reimpose his travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries”
⁦Dana Milbank⁩ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…