He's one of the founders of Project Shema, specifically about the difference between anti-Jewish hatred and anti-Jewish biases and how he has hope about the future and moving forward.

First, I will say that we are all socialized and conditioned into anti-Jewish ideas.

To be Jewish or not Jewish, simply to be human in society today, is to be inculcated with certain ideas about Jews.

Ideas that Jews are powerful, that we're greedy, that we're evil, that we're disloyal or untrustworthy.

And these ideas are in our media, they're in our culture, they're in music, they're in the textbooks that we're reading.

So to be alive today is to be socialized into these ideas, and we all have these unconscious and implicit biases and prejudices about Jews.

So when I think about solving for anti-Semitism, I don't actually think about solving for Jew hatred.

I'm very, very interested in antisemitism as it relates to other forms of bigotry and hatred, because I personally believe that while each form of hatred has its specificities, that they're all interrelated, that hate kind of always comes with friends, you know, hatred of Jews also comes with hatred of other people who are othered for whatever reason.

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But I also know that to be a Jew is to be an agent of hope.

The horseshoe theory being the idea that if you go far left enough, you end up on the right, or if you go far right enough, you end up on the left.

A trend line of my work that I must name to answer this question is the importance of dismantling binaries.

We need to dismantle binaries.

And the question, is antisemitism related to other forms of bigotry? Yes or no? Or should we handle antisemitism in isolation or in connection to other forms of bigotry? I think can sometimes perpetuate this polarized debate that doesn't help us to solve these challenges.

Antisemitism is its own conspiracy theory.

It is its own systemic bigotry.

He remembered how he felt when he heard about Bondi

I felt a lot of pain, of course.

I had trained and worked with folks who were there, who are part of the Bondi community.

And when I was in Australia, I heard the community saying they were afraid that the boycotts, the dehumanization, and the calls for violence would lead to violence.

So I was in Australia one or two years ago when I heard the Jewish community saying that there would be violent incidents against the Jewish community.

I heard Jewish leaders calling on the civil, civic sector and civil society and the government to step up interventions and safeguard the Jewish community.

And I feel that what happened at Bondi, which of course was a terrible tragedy, was probably not a surprise to many Australian Jews, because when I was visiting, they told me they were afraid something like that would happen.

He also gave us a bit of insight into, into how that feels across the world, given the many, many Jewish communities he's visited