I’m a Montana state senator and I’m fighting Jew-hatred. You can too

When I recognized the same silence that doomed my family in the Holocaust, I stopped waiting and began using every tool I have to act, from state legislation to this very essay

Feb 7, 2026, 10:41 AM

Edit

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse,
Report this post.

Montana state senator Cora Neumann speaks at the Minnesota State Capitol, on February 1, 2026, alongside colleagues from 27 states, protesting the actions of ICE in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Screengrab, via Instagram)

I am a state senator in Montana. A Democrat in a red state. I have spent my career building bridges — working on public health equity with Indigenous communities, partnering with First Ladies Bush, Obama, Biden and more on global health initiatives, building bipartisan coalitions that have garnered attention from The New York Times and CBS National News. I believe in finding common ground, in compromise, in tomorrow being better than today.

And for over two years, I waited for tomorrow.

I waited for people to see that their proclaimed opposition to US aid to Israel has unleashed unbridled antisemitism and Jew-hatred worldwide. That the campus protests, the social media campaigns, the “anti-Zionist” movements — whatever their stated intentions — have given permission for the world’s oldest hate to explode. I’ve been waiting for them to connect their activism to the attacks on Jews in Paris, Toronto, Melbourne, Manchester, Jackson.