Zioness Founder and CEO, Amanda Berman was featured in a CNN feature on how opposition to Israel has become an informal litmus test within the Democratic Party, and the toll that shift is taking on Jewish progressives.
Responding to arguments that dismiss Jewish self-determination as incompatible with fighting for other communities, Berman said it gives her “a physical, visceral reaction: I experience it as antisemitism.” She also drew a direct line between that rhetoric and century-old conspiracy theories about Jewish power, warning that recycling those ideas in new political language doesn’t make them any less dangerous. The piece features elected officials and organizers across the political spectrum describing the same experience: being told to renounce a piece of their identity to stay welcome in progressive spaces.