They were not soldiers. They were not politicians. They were friends and neighbors walking peacefully through their own community, calling attention to hostages kidnapped from Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7.
Karen Sorin Diamond, an 82-year-old mother and grandmother, did not survive. I have spent the past year carrying that and thinking about that. I think many of us have.
Not just their physical injuries, horrific in themselves. They also lost the ability to walk freely without threats to their safety. To gather openly, without being targeted for their religion or their views. To be in public and openly Jewish, without anxiety or fear. In the sentencing hearing this past May, I heard a survivor describe how they still can't walk past a crowd without mapping their exit. Another said they haven't been back to Pearl Street since the attack that day.
We are living through one of the most violent surges of antisemitism in modern history. ADL's 2025 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents found that last year was one of the most violent and deadly years for Jews in the United States. In Colorado alone, the ADL identified 167 antisemitic incidents in 2025—and those are just the incidents we know about. Many more may remain uncounted.
We know that trauma does not stay at the scene. When someone is targeted in a violent hate crime, they are changed by it. They feel unsafe in places that resemble where they were attacked. They scan crowds. They hesitate before going somewhere they once went without a second thought.
On May 7, nearly a year after the attack, I stood in the courtroom as the man responsible was sentenced to life in prison. Survivors stood before the judge and spoke about what was taken from them.
"You chose to victimize people who were peacefully gathering together,” she said. “You chose to victimize these people because they were members of the Jewish community. You chose to victimize the elderly, to victimize children, to victimize people that were gathered in peace to grieve together and to heal together and to help together."
But being seen is not the same as being safe.
It means speaking up when you hear antisemitism dismissed as harmless in person and online. It means pushing back when hatred is disguised as political commentary. It means gathering support for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, so that houses of worship and other non-profits can protect themselves. It means urging Congress to pass the SACRED Act, which would protect worshippers from intimidation outside houses of worship.
The Jewish community is not asking to be immune from criticism or controversy. We are asking to be safe. We are asking to walk our streets, attend our synagogues, and gather in our communities without fear. We are asking the world to look at what is happening and find the courage to say: not on my watch.
It takes resolve. It takes courage. And it takes all of us.
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