Not in our name: Don’t use anti-Semitic attacks as a rationale for rewriting bail reform

Regardless of the crucial want for this reform, change-resistant district attorneys, right-wing media and regressive politicians at the moment are exploiting anti-Semitism to fire up opposition to bail reform. We perceive, and really feel intimately, our communities’ worry and ache. We additionally know {that a} system of cash bail and pretrial detention doesn’t preserve us protected. Pretrial jailing — which might trigger folks to lose their jobs, housing and well being care — destabilizes households and communities, exacerbating root causes of hurt and violence. Incarceration is not going to remedy the issue of anti-Semitic violence.