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In 1923, as elite American universities began adopting quotas restricting the number of Jews they admitted, an organization was formed to provide a home for Jewish students on campus where they could congregate to pray, socialize, and feel welcome. This organization was called Hillel, and it has been the central address for Jewish life at colleges and universities ever since. That’s how I found my way to it when I was a student at UCLA; overwhelmed by the size of the university, I was looking to connect with a smaller group of individuals with whom I likely shared values, history, and a sense of cultural belonging.I found this at Hillel, where I discovered so much about who I am in this world, and formed relationships that have lasted my entire adult life. That is why I have been heartbroken and horrified in recent months as the broader Hillel organization has become the target of regular threats and attacks.Hillel is where I was taught how to pray, how to learn, and how to participate in charity and social-justice work. Hillel is where I learned to define my Judaism not by my immigrant grandparents’ experience and the Holocaust, but by the joy and beauty of Jewish culture as it is unfolding to this day.Hillel has been foundational to so many Jewish stories over the past century. In the 1930s, it established a student refugee program, saving the lives of nearly 150 young European Jews. In 1947, it helped Hungarian-born Tom Lantos come to the U.S., where he became the only Holocaust survivor to ever be elected to Congress. In the 1950s and ’60s, Hillels across the country organized robust support for the civil-rights movement. In 1960, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Hillel director Max Ticktin addressed 500 students in a march on Library Mall and called for an end to both local and national discrimination, and encouraged students to fight against racist Jim Crow laws. I have raised my children at Hillel, continuing to participate in many capacities even after I received my doctorate; many Hillels are also community centers of a sort, providing religious and spiritual services, meals, and a sense of belonging for those who find themselves at a transition point in their life. When I travel the country and the world, I often visit a local Hillel, and find myself feeling perfectly at home.[Read: The wrong way to fight campus anti-Semitism on campus]And this organization is being attacked all over the country, a dynamic that emerged after October 7 and that appears to have grown only more frequent and intense in recent months, as students have returned to campus. At the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, a message on social media posted by the UW-Milwaukee Popular University for Palestine stated that “ANY organization or entity that supports Israel is not welcome at UWM,” specifically mentioning Hillel. The post went on to say that these organizations “will be treated accordingly as extremist criminals. Stay tuned,” and that Zionist groups will not be normalized or welcomed on campus. At Hunter College, in Manhattan, students at Hillel found a sign depicting an assault rifle, calling on students to Bring the war home next to a sign reading Hillel go to hell with an upside-down triangle, indicating that this Hillel is a target. At a recent Baruch College Hillel event held at a Midtown restaurant in New York City designed for incoming freshmen to learn about campus life, Jewish students were met with protesters shouting references to the hostages recently executed by Hamas; a video posted on Instagram featured a protester shouting to a female student, “Where’s Hersh, you ugly-ass bitch?” (The reference was to Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an American citizen recently murdered by Hamas.)In my time as an undergraduate and graduate student at UCLA, I thrived as a student leader at Hillel under the guidance of a boldly liberal Zionist rabbi. He said then what I still believe now: The Palestinian people have a right to self-determination and dignity, and deserve better from their own leadership as well as from Israel. As students, we sought to have peaceful, respectful conversations with students on campus who advocated for the establishment of a Palestinian state. We were met with accusations of racism, swastikas chalked on the bricks of Bruin Walk, and protesters who donned Hamas armbands and stared at us in stony silence. We watched in bewilderment as the “Zionism is racism” campaigns began to take hold on campuses across the country. It was astounding that students would not engage with even those of us who were trying to find common ground and believed in coexistence.In the 1990s, many of us felt that we had little choice but to accept that a few student organizations were comfortable branding Zionism as a form of racism, or wearing regalia of terrorist organizations whose charters included the explicit elimination of the Jewish state. The refusal of some students to engage in dialogue was once an unspoken policy; now it is an explicit one. Anti-normalization is the name for this trend. It is rooted in the idea that merely talking with people who hold a different point of view from you is tantamount to recognition or acceptance of that view and should be avoided at all costs. The refusal to engage shuts down any dialogue and any sincere attempt to bridge our pain and find ways to communicate with empathy and compassion. This tactic reveals an intellectual weakness, an inability to respond reasonably to a point of view that is not your own. And it is fundamentally contrary to the basic values of the university and academia at large: exposure to and a free exchange of ideas, as well as the ability to find creative and positive outlets for differences of opinion.[Read: How resilient are Jewish American traditions?]It is, to put it plainly, undemocratic to support the tactics of drowning out and protesting Israeli or Jewish speakers simply because they are Jewish. It needs to be called out for what it is: anti-Semitism. It is anti-Semitic to seek to deny Jewish students the ability to access the most important organization for Jewish life on campus. We cannot allow this to be normalized.As for me, I have been uninvited from venues since October 7 simply because I am Jewish. I have been shouted down, asked to leave, accused of a hatred I know not how to summon. And my response is one that I and generations of students have learned at Hillel. Hillel teaches that we should not be afraid to be Jewish. We can be proud to be American. And we deserve the rights and privileges awarded to every minority on campus: a safe place to gather, to pray, to learn, and to fight for what is right.

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People attend a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at the Dort Financial Center on October 4, 2024, in Flint, Michigan. | Scott Olson/Getty Images Reader Andrew Perrin writes: While I realize political campaigns need money, the only messages I seem to get from political campaigns are pleas for money, especially when they’re trying to hit “end of month deadlines” — which I have no idea why that’s important. I’d much rather receive texts or emails about policy ideas, what the candidate would do if they won, or maybe even what they’re doing with the money they’re receiving. Am I the only one that is frustrated by candidates only seeming to care about money when talking to their would-be constituents? It’s not just you: A lot of people don’t like being repeatedly asked for money, even if they agree with the cause their donation would support. But as frustrating as the deluge of requests for campaign donations over text and email may be, there is a reason behind these fundraising tactics.  For one, as you noted, campaigns desperately need the money. It’s become incredibly expensive to run a successful campaign, especially when challenging an incumbent. That money may make a difference in helping introduce a candidate and their positions to the electorate. And the other thing is: Asking people for money — even in hyperbolic ways — works. Research suggests that people are much more likely to give to charities when they’re asked to do so. Recent history suggests the same is true of political campaigns. Vice President Kamala Harris has been aggressive in soliciting donations; she brought in $615 million in the first six weeks after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race. Her campaign has not yet announced its fundraising haul for September, but she is expected to continue to outpace Trump. That’s not to say that candidates don’t try to engage with their constituents on the issues, sometimes even within their communications asking for donations. A candidate’s approach to messaging comes down to individual style. But when an election is tight, and the odds are against a candidate, money matters a lot — and candidates may choose to prioritize fundraising pleas over other types of communication.  So, just how expensive is it to run a campaign? And how did we end up with such costly elections? In Texas, where I’m based, the Senate campaign between Democrat Colin Allred and Republican incumbent Ted Cruz has been incredibly costly already. Allred spent $37 million on aired ads as of mid-September, almost three times what Cruz, the incumbent, had spent at that point. That spending has been largely powered by small donors, with an average donation amount of about $35. National Democrats think there’s a chance that Allred can win, but he will likely have to spend even more to do so in what is still a red state, despite the fact that Cruz has consistently low approval ratings. The high cost of running is partially a function of the fact that Texas is a large state with a population of 30 million people, 254 counties, and 20 different media markets. The money Allred is raising has to support not just ads but also campaign staffers and volunteer efforts, including organizing events, rallies, data-sharing, phone banks, block walking, voter registration, and other get-out-the-vote efforts across the state. But high spending is also a result of the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. That decision allowed corporations and outside groups to spend unlimited money on elections, often via super PACs — a kind of fundraising vehicle — that operate independently of campaigns. Since Citizens United, spending on elections up and down the ballot has gone way up: In 2008, the last presidential election before the decision, spending on congressional campaigns totaled about $3 billion, adjusted for inflation; in 2020, also a presidential election year, it totaled $10 billion.  Research suggests that challengers benefit more from campaign spending than incumbents, and that for any candidate, early spending is more effective than late spending — which may partly motivate campaigns’ sense of urgency when they solicit donations from voters.  Incumbents don’t benefit as much from campaign spending because voters often already know who they are and what they stand for. Usually, there isn’t much room to change voters’ minds about that.  Of course, the kinds of ardent partisans who often receive requests to donate may appreciate efforts to try — like through engagement on policy — but generally, the focus on voter outreach during elections is about keeping money flowing and wooing more persuadable voters. Does bombarding people with fundraising appeals actually work? If digital advertising firms weren’t successful in soliciting donations by asking repeatedly, they wouldn’t do it. That said, there’s a growing divide in Democratic circles about the best way to go about it.  While fundraising requests focused on urgency are a tried and true method, some Democrats are beginning to ask if it might be better to, as you suggested, bring in a little more policy talk.  Of late, some firms have been criticized for overly aggressive fundraising tactics. The Democratic firm Mothership Strategies, for instance, had a big presence in the 2022 midterms and became infamous for sensationalist fundraising campaigns falsely claiming that Republicans were forcing Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to resign and that voter donations could help “DESTROY Trump’s extremist Supreme Court.”  Those tactics generated a lot of money — but they also earned blowback. Democratic candidates had largely cut ties with the firm by April 2023. Jake Lipsett, a founder of the firm, defended the firm’s strategies to Politico later that year, saying that they were able to generate a lot of money and that it was “beneficial for the Democratic Party and the progressive movement because it’s having such a large impact on races across the board.”   “If you bombard people with spam emails and texts, if you lie to them and say that there are fake octuple donor matches, if you send them emails and say the sky is falling, that works,” said Zack Malitz, a Democratic consultant who worked on Beto O’Rourke’s 2018 Senate campaign in Texas. “You can scare people into giving money that way. But it does long-term damage to the credibility of Democrats.” Is there a better way to fundraise? Hector Sigala, the cofounder of Middle Seat, another Democratic digital ad firm, said that there’s a better way to go about communicating with donors and asking for their support, financial and otherwise.  That can involve describing a candidate’s positions and being honest with voters about the role their donations play. Some, but not all, candidates are already doing this. Sigala’s firm sent out an email from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) that explicitly acknowledged the “scare tactics” some politicians engage in to get voters to donate and said that’s not what her campaign is about: “Instead of guilt tripping you for not donating enough, we want our emails to provide value to you. We try to send out informative, educational content.” The firm also ran an email campaign for Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) in which he explained the significance of his tattoos, linking the artwork to Fetterman’s policy positions: They included the dates on which people were killed, some via gun violence, in the city of Braddock while he served as mayor. He outlined how he helped address violence as mayor and said he would similarly fight for “every Pennsylvanian” — with the help of grassroots donors.  These kinds of communications can deliver record-breaking fundraising numbers, Sigala said.  “We’re treating our supporters like smart people [who] really give a damn about what we’re talking about,” he said. “It just works a lot better than ‘midnight deadlines,’ fake matches, and ‘the sky is falling.’” That said, if my inbox and texts are any indication, Sigala’s firm remains the exception.

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