Nicole Speer and Ryan Schuchard: Holding the hurt, naming the harm in Boulder

Opinion

Published on July 30, 2025

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We should have spoken long before this, when speakers in council chambers conflated Jews with the actions of the Israeli government, when antisemitism crept into our civic dialogue, and when harmful rhetoric was quietly dismissed until the horrific attack on June 1. It should not have taken us this long.

The two of us have been leaving antisemitism out of our equity work. This is why we are writing about it now, and why we will be addressing it going forward.