The Work Isn’t Over

The Work Isn’t Over

Now that the hostages are finally coming home, and the war that has consumed our hearts and screens may at last be drawing to an end, many will ask: Will the raging antizionism quiet down? Will the war against Jews in the diaspora fade with the smoke over Gaza?

It will not.

The slogans will not disappear. The lies will keep circulating in classrooms, social feeds, and protest chants. The people who found meaning in hating Jews will not suddenly abandon that comfort because the rockets have stopped. History has taught us, painfully and repeatedly, that antisemitism does not end when the guns do. It adapts. It rebrands. It waits.

What we are facing today is not new. It is an old hatred wearing a new mask. The difference is that this generation of Jews, spread across Israel, America, and every corner of the diaspora, refuses to be silent. We refuse to cower. We refuse to apologize for our existence or for our right to self-determination.

We have decades of work ahead. Work to rebuild the moral clarity the world once had about antisemitism. Work to make Jew hatred unacceptable again in universities, boardrooms, and political parties. Work to educate, to expose, to fight, and to heal.

This moment is not the end of the war. It is the beginning of a longer campaign for dignity, truth, and the right to live as Jews, unapologetically.

The real peace we seek is not only in the Middle East. It is in the hearts of our neighbors, our institutions, and our next generation.

That peace will not come on its own. We will have to build it, one voice, one truth, one act of courage at a time.