Now, read the information on the American Democracy pillar.
The U.S. government was created to ensure that no individual or group has too much power. It is a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, historian and professor at Emory University, shared her thoughts about why we must counter antisemitism:
"Fight antisemitism. Don’t fight just because you have a Jewish neighbor or Jewish friends and you don’t want them to be hurt or to live in fear. That’s good but that’s not the reason. Or, if you’re going to fight antisemitism just because you hate prejudice against all minorities—religious, ethnic, whatever it might be—that’s a good thing, but that’s not sufficient. The reason to fight antisemitism is that it poses a danger to the democratic societies in which we live. No healthy democratic society can harbor that kind of animus, that kind of hatred, and be called a healthy society."