In college sports, an industry that employs more than 50,000 professionals in the US, those that identify as Jewish are only a few hundred. Yet countless numbers of their colleagues have either chosen to stay silent, refused to condemn the actions of the terrorists that have wrecked pain and destruction on the citizens of Palestinian and those of Israel for years, or in some instances outright sided with them. It is difficult to understand how an industry that has set an example for diversity, equity and inclusion, has so quickly shown nothing but silence to the co-workers and student-athletes within their campus communities that now fear for their own safety...
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