Not in our names

Something historic is stirring inside the American Jewish community. Not a murmur of dissent, but a seismic re-evaluation — of identity, of loyalty, of the weaponised invocation of Jewish safety in defence of mass destruction. Gaza did not merely divide opinion. For a critical and growing fraction of Jewish Americans, it shattered a foundational consensus that had endured for decades: that support for Israel was not just politics, but patrimony. The numbers are no longer on the fringe. A landmark Washington Post poll conducted in September 2025 — the most comprehensive of its kind — found that 61 percent of American Jews believe Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza. Nearly four in ten — 39 percent — go further, […]