Jews don’t need to invoke “Jewish values” to justify our work toward Palestinian liberation. In fact, doing so reinforces the very ideology we seek to dismantle.

Jewish organizations that pride themselves on progressivism have been silent on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. There must be a reckoning with “progressive” Jewish complicity in Israel’s unspeakable crimes, and that reckoning begins from within.

Anna Rajagopal was fired from her position with Hebrew Union College’s Jewish Language Project out of fear her anti-Zionist politics would alienate donors. Her story reveals the culture of fear within Jewish institutional life.