The warning on the table for 30 years now

(JNS) — American businessman Ronald S. Lauder stood at The Jerusalem Post conference in New York earlier this month and said what many have been saying for years. Since Oct. 7, Jewish organizations in the United States have spent more than $600 million fighting antisemitism through advertising, media campaigns and public messaging.

“Has it helped?” he asked the room. “Has all that money stopped or even slowed down the hatred against us? The answer is no.”

He’s right. And he’s not the first person to say it.

In the mid-1990s, marketing consultant Gary Wexler sat in a meeting in Israel and watch...