On various occasions, back in the 1970s, I was among the hundreds of thousands of people – and in some cases just a few dozen – who marched to protest what was being done to Soviet Jews, and to demand that the Soviets let our people go, although I did so while carrying my notes and studying the Talmud for exams, never imagining that a little bit more than a decade later I would actually marry somebody who had participated in protest demonstrations in the U.S.S.R. at far greater personal risk than the demonstrators faced then or face now in the U.S., and she then managed to get out of the U.S.S.R. with her equally courageous and principled parents when emigration from the U.S.S.R. was risky and limited.
May people of good will continue to protest freely, but only after ascertaining the facts on which their protests are based, and only by peacefully and nonviolently targeting the wrongdoers.