Amanda Berman, who founded the Zioness movement in 2017, has spent the past five years “in the belly of the beast” countering antisemitism. Yet the events unfolding overseas were “an impossible week.”
“I knew how serious [antisemitism] was — I talked about it 18 hours a day — and I never expected this,” she said. “It’s really hard to express to people who are not Jewish how we feel. The vulnerability that Jews feel today is something that we haven’t felt in almost 80 years, the largest attack on Jewish life since the gas chambers.”