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This article was originally published in The Jewish Journal on May 8th, 2023, written by Adam Milstein.  DEI initiatives are weaponized against Jewish students, maliciously portraying them and Israel as vicious oppressors. Today in America, institutions, from universities to governmental agencies and to corporate workplaces, continue to embrace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives and associated ideologies closely linked to critical race theory (CRT). In the process Jews, particularly those on college campuses, find it impossible to live securely and safely within their Jewish identities. The asserted goals of DEI are positive: to promote the representation, participation, and fair treatment of historically  Read More…

  This article was originally published in the Jerusalem Post on July 5th, 2022, written by Adam Milstein.  Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices, officers, policies, and programming are being increasingly embraced in American institutions, from government to the corporate workplace. This is particularly true in education, from leading American universities to elite prep schools. In fact, one sampling of leading American universities found DEI staff making up an average of 3.4 positions for every 100 tenured or tenure-track faculty members and outnumbering by a factor of at least four the staff dedicated to helping students with disabilities. The ostensible goals of DEI  Read More…

This article was originally published in the Washington Times on February 13th, 2024, written by Adam Milstein It is no secret that Jewish Americans have historically skewed left politically. We have long been considered an important voting bloc for Democrats, and our involvement in the Democratic Party dates as far back as the early days of the labor movement. In recent years, however, radical progressives have begun to take over the Democratic Party. These progressives are proud anti-Zionists who frequently cross the line into antisemitism. Their takeover of the party has unsurprisingly alienated Jewish voters. But this has never been more apparent than in the  Read More…

This article was originally published in the Jerusalem Post on January 10th, 2024, written by Adam Milstein All Jews agree on one thing…that all Jews never agree. At any Jewish gathering around the world, you’ll hear heated debates on food, religion, culture, and everything in between. Politics are no different, but the debate is louder. James Baker once said “F*** the Jews, they don’t vote for us.” While perhaps untrue, Baker’s sentiment reflected a historical American Jewish political truism – the Jewish community votes Democrat. Since the early 1990’s, a growing number of Jews have shifted rightward, but the majority of the Jewish-American  Read More…

This article was originally published in the Jerusalem Post on December 2nd, 2023, written by Adam Milstein On October 7, Hamas attacked Israel, massacring 1,200 Israeli civilians in cold blood, and wounding thousands, including women, children, and the elderly. 240 people – including infants and Holocaust survivors – were kidnapped and taken to Gaza. What was the response from the world? Jewish institutions have been vandalized. Jews have been murdered on the street and attacked in their homes. Crowds have called for the annihilation of the Jewish state and to clean the world of Jews on college campuses.  Celebrities and influencers  Read More…

This article was originally published in Space Coast Daily on July 24th, 2023, written by Space Coast Daily. The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) movement is ostensibly intended to promote a deeper understanding and fairer treatment of those from historically marginalized communities. However, in practice, DEI threatens to undermine core American values and the right of Jewish Americans to live securely within their Jewish identities. That’s the argument made by Israel-American philanthropist and community leader Adam Milstein, an immigrant to the United States who built a successful business and now acts as a venture philanthropist. His focus, including his work with the  Read More…

This article was originally published in the The Jerusalem Post on March 28th, 2023, written by Adam Milstein. We need to build alliances between Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Hindus. America was founded by people fleeing religious persecution. Our society flourished based on the unique atmosphere of religious tolerance, which was very different from Europe and other parts of the world. These fundamental principles are now threatened by Critical Race Theory (CRT), and its related ideologies, which present a danger to the values underlying a thriving America – and potentially, to its faith-based communities. Once considered to be fringe subject matter to be  Read More…

This article was originally published in the The Jerusalem Post on January 16th, 2023, written by Adam Milstein.   It Starts with The Jews But Never Ends With The Jews. It has become a truism that Jews are history’s “canary in the coal mine”. Across cultures and continents, where Jews have flourished, so have the societies around them. Where Jews have faced persecution and expulsion, it is usually a sign that darker forces are taking hold that will degrade, diminish, and often, destroy the broader society. The examples of this phenomena are numerous and profound. Spain’s golden era of Jewish achievement  Read More…

This article was originally published in the Jewish Policy Center on January 6th, 2023, written by Adam Milstein  At a summit held by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in November, FBI Director Christopher Wray spoke about “the tragic reality that the Jewish community uniquely ends up on the receiving end of hate-fueled attacks from all sides.” He referenced the white supremacist attacks in recent years in Poway and Pittsburgh, and the 2022 attack at the synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, motivated by “violent Jihad”. But it’s not just white supremacists and radical Muslims. There are myriad of groups espousing Jews-hatred – the far-right,  Read More…

This article was originally published in the Jerusalem Post on September 13th, 2022, written by Adam Milstein.    Antisemitism in high schools is uniquely dangerous as teenagers are particularly impressionable, deeply affected by social dynamics of their peers and by the authority of their teachers.   In recent years, while much of the Jewish community has been keenly focused on antisemitism on college campuses, we have largely overlooked another growing danger. Activist teachers and administrators have increasingly injected antisemitism into American public and private high schools through expanded Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) departments and policies and by promoting radical curricula steeped in  Read More…