Zioness Founder and Executive Director Amanda Berman published a widely shared Op-Ed in The Forward addressing the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil — a Palestinian activist with alleged ties to virulently antisemitic rhetoric — and the dangerous false choice it presents between Jewish safety and democratic values. In the piece, Amanda underscores a core Zioness conviction: defending due process and civil liberties is not at odds with fighting antisemitism — it is essential to it. Khalil’s detention by ICE has ignited polarized reactions that obscure the real threat: the erosion of legal protections under authoritarian agendas. History teaches that when governments weaponize the law against one marginalized group, all are vulnerable — including Jews. Zioness rejects these flattened narratives and insists that the fight for Jewish safety and the defense of our civil liberties must go hand in hand.