On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Sophie Ellman-Golan, a founding organizer for the Women's March. Now she helps lead Never Again Action, a mass mobilization of Jews who are organizing to shut down ICE and hold the political establishment accountable for enabling both the deportation machine that has separated immigrant families across the U.S. for decades and the current crisis at the border. “Conservatives purport to defend Jews even as they embrace policies that most Jews deplore, and infuriating and intolerable,” is how Ellman-Golan describes this climate and the resurgence of white nationalism and anti-Semitism, in part fueled by President Trump's own politics. “It's imperative that we loudly speak for ourselves,” Ellman-Golan told the New York Times, “because if we don't, the loudest voices that claim to speak on behalf of Jews will be right-wing Evangelical Christians.”
