After another week of antisemitic and Islamophobic violence, intimidation, and reckless public rhetoric, the bare minimum is not hard.

Every elected official and every civil society leader should publicly and unequivocally condemn it.

Not selectively. Not when it is politically convenient. Not only when their own community is the one under threat.

Jews, Muslims, Arabs, Palestinians, and Israelis in this country are our neighbors. They should not have to live with the fear that the rest of us will stay quiet while bad actors, inside and outside government, turn public language into public danger.

We need less incitement.

More courage.

And we deserve government, non-profit, faith, labor, media and business leaders whose words lower the temperature instead of raising it.

This is unacceptable