I Said It. Now Let’s Do Something About It.
For those of you who have known me through GirlieGirlArmy for years, you may not know what I do when I’m not posting about rescue animals, Jewish joy, clean beauty, motherhood, or whatever other rabbit hole has swallowed me that particular week.
I’m the Development Director at The Lawfare Project, a Jewish civil rights organization and legal think tank that fights Jew hatred through impact litigation, legal advocacy and education. #EndJewHatred is our civil rights movement and a program of The Lawfare Project.
A few days ago, I posted a video about something that has been making me furious: Hollywood’s willingness to celebrate, elevate and fiercely protect nearly every minority voice, while too often expecting Jews to stay quiet, apologize for ourselves, prove our suffering, or produce the “right kind” of Jew before our experiences are deemed worthy of consideration.
Hollywood’s hypocrisy has gone on long enough.
The response told me I am very far from alone.
There is something particularly grotesque about watching an industry that has built so much of its modern identity around representation, inclusion and believing marginalized people suddenly discover nuance when the marginalized people are Jews.
Jewish artists are expected to explain themselves. Jewish actors and creators watch colleagues stay silent. People who speak publicly about Jew hatred or stand up for the Jewish community can face professional consequences, social ostracism, intimidation and campaigns designed to make speaking up simply not worth the trouble.
And then, inevitably, someone produces a Jewish person who agrees with them.
See? Even a Jew says so.
This was the subject of my video, and it makes me crazy.
Finding a handful of Jews who validate what you already believe is not listening to Jews. Using their Jewishness as permission to dismiss millions of other Jewish voices is not allyship. It’s tokenism with better branding.
And I am done pretending this is merely an irritating cultural conversation.
Because saying something on Instagram feels good for about five minutes.
Then what?
This Is Where the Work Comes In
At The Lawfare Project and #EndJewHatred, our answer is action.
We fight Jew hatred in courtrooms, institutions and the public square. We use the law, advocacy and education to demand something that should be utterly uncontroversial: Jewish people deserve the same civil rights protections afforded to every other minority.
One of the projects I’m particularly passionate about is our Freedom Fund.
The Freedom Fund exists to stand behind Jewish artists, entertainers, activists and allies who face professional retaliation, intimidation or attempts to silence them because they speak publicly against Jew hatred.
Because telling people to “be brave” is easy.
Standing behind them when bravery costs them something is harder.
The Freedom Fund is about making that support tangible. It means resources, advocacy and a community willing to say: If you use your voice, you will not be standing alone.
And nowhere does that conversation feel more urgent than Hollywood.
So We’re Going to Los Angeles
On Thursday, November 12, The Lawfare Project and #EndJewHatred are gathering in Los Angeles for an intimate evening benefiting the Freedom Fund.
Our Founder & CEO, internationally acclaimed civil rights attorney Brooke Goldstein, will join Jewish leaders, artists, advocates and allies for a conversation about what fighting back actually looks like.
Not another hashtag.
Not another horrified group text.
Not another night of all of us sending one another the same outrageous clip and asking, Can you believe this?
Actual action.
Thursday, November 12, 2026
6:00–8:00 PM
Venice Beach, Los Angeles
Private residence, address provided to confirmed guests
If you’re in Los Angeles, I want you there.
Come out. Bring someone with you. Meet the people doing this work. Put your outrage, your voice and your values into action.
And if you’re nowhere near Los Angeles, you can still be part of it.
You do not need to attend the event to support the Freedom Fund. On the event page, simply choose the donation option. Every contribution helps us stand behind people willing to speak when silence would be much easier.
RSVP, BUY TICKETS OR SUPPORT THE FREEDOM FUND
I have spent a lot of years on GirlieGirlArmy talking about living according to your values.
Sometimes that means what you buy, what you eat, how you raise your children, whose work you support, or how you treat animals and the planet.
And sometimes it means refusing to be quiet when quiet would be considerably more comfortable.
So if you watched my video and nodded, swore at your phone, sent it to five friends, or thought finally, someone said it, I’m asking you to take the next step with me.
I said it. Now let’s do something about it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chloé Jo Davis is the founder of GirlieGirlArmy.com and Development Director at The Lawfare Project, home of the #EndJewHatred civil rights movement. She is a longtime writer, activist, animal rescuer and mother of three who believes fabulousness and having a backbone are entirely compatible.