The forces that promote the demonization and exclusion of any people are the same forces that make the world unsafe for Jews. We believe that the only path toward safety for Jews is one where we have shared safety for everyone. With antisemitism and other forms of white supremacist ideology on the rise, we must organize with other communities to fight against all forms of oppression, including racism, anti-Blackness, Islamophobia, and discrimination against immigrants, LGBTQ+ people and those experiencing homelessness.

Right now, this far-right tactic of scapegoating vulnerable communities is also being weaponized by our country's most powerful leaders — including some who have made their careers in San Francisco and Silicon Valley — to demonize and harm immigrants, trans people, and Palestinians.

Just recently, despite San Francisco’s status as a sanctuary city, there was an ICE detention of 15 people, including children, as we continue to see ICE escalate violence throughout California. The additional threat to cut federal funds to sanctuary cities, including funds used to combat homelessness, shows how the safety of different marginalized populations is at risk under the right wing administration.

Like other forms of discrimination, antisemitism is fueled most when people are forced to compete for scarce resources. The conditions that Jews need to safely thrive are the same ones that we need to fix our broken society: a multiracial democracy, social equity and justice, universal healthcare and housing, and leaders who put people over profit.

To achieve shared safety, we call for radically reimagining community safety and an end to all spending on death and destruction of people's lives and the environment - including an immediate US arms embargo on Israel.