In the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020, Wisconsin-based insurance giant American Family Insurance joined corporate America in speaking out on social justice issues, instituting mandatory employee racial sensitivity training, and donating tens of millions of dollars to the cause. But in the wake of Hamas’ terrorist attacks in Israel, which left more than 1,400 dead in Israel and increased threats to the Jewish communities in America, the insurance giant is silent.
Along with many large corporations, American Family’s silence is notable and troubling to groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which slammed corporate America’s lack of response as “disappointing at best, disastrous at worst,” according to CNN.
“Do Israeli lives matter?” asked Restoration of America Founder and President Doug Truax. “Not apparently to many corporations who loudly virtue-signaled about BLM a few years ago, but were deathly silent when the same BLM supported the slaughter of innocent citizens in Israel.”