Jewish Democratic Council Statement on the web page: Racial Equality and Criminal Justice Reform: Throughout our history, Jewish people have faced oppression, bigotry, and violence. We have known the devastating consequences of silence in the face of persecution and hatred. The Jewish struggle for freedom and safety is intertwined with that of Black Americans, and our history and sacred texts demand we pursue justice and equality and raise our voice against racism.
For generations, the American Jewish community has been a leader and partner in countless social and political movements, motivated by our core Jewish values that prioritize justice and equality in the face of strife and bigotry. JDCA believes that Black lives matter. We stand with the Black community and other groups targeted by police violence and systemic racism, and support efforts and reforms to bring about racial and criminal justice. We recognize the critical role of the police, and we must boldly face our nation’s painful history of slavery, segregation, disenfranchisement, and hatred, and ensure greater accountability in law enforcement. Specifically, we support the following measures:
Police reform, including banning police chokeholds, banning the transfer of military weapons to our civilian police force, mandating wide-spread body camera use, and establishing a national commission on police violence.
Criminal justice reform, including federal efforts to reform cash bail, which can criminalize poverty and disproportionately negatively impact communities of color.
Ending the racial wealth gap and advancing economic mobility, including ensuring access to equal credit and capital, fighting housing discrimination and appraisal discrimination in predominantly minority communities, and fighting for equal pay.
Ensuring equal access to high-quality affordable healthcare including mental healthcare and supporting federal efforts to combat racial inequities in medicine, –maternal healthcare–and housing.
Ensuring and protecting the right to vote for all eligible Americans, fighting voter suppression and supporting the restoration of voting rights for former felons.
Isn't it interesting that when a comment is made about Jews, we're told that interpretations are subjective, but microaggression is considered to be the decision of the receiver. Another bit of circular reason we are subjected to in progressive spaces. So while supporting racial equity, it's also important to not let persons in these progressive spaces take verbal potshots at our community.
When I reported something to the ADL, the ADL issued a legal letter (without showing it to me first or getting my consent) to the organization subject to the complaint. The letter states that the "allegations" cannot be verified. This is an example of how Jewish organizations' actions can result in delegitimatizing and undermining the credibility of Jews who step forward with a complaint. A statement of one's experience is not an "allegation," and the existence of recordings and e-mails is counter to the claim that a person's claim is not "verifiable." This is an example of how Jewish organizations are not standing up for Jews enough and actually throwing members of the Jewish community under the bus. This generates a legal response from the subject of the complaint rather than an intercultural or interfaith dialog. I experienced a great deal of damage from this process when I was reaching out for support and guidance. There is vacuum with respect to real Jewish allyship.
I support education about Black history and Native American history. I support reparations and other programs to help compensate these who suffered generational trauma. (I also support American Jews getting reparations from Europe.) What I do not support is a license for people in progressive spaces to utter and enable misinformation and negative speech about Jews. For example, it is not all right to let it go by if people make negative remarks about the Jewish response to the Holocaust. And even worse is when progressive spaces look for Jewish organizations to delegitimize and marginalize other Jews who complain or attempt to tell their stories.
Silence about oppression and employment discrimination against Jews, our history and rational fact-based Middle East policy is the price Jews are being ordered to pay as an admission ticket into the progressive movement, and that is not acceptable. It is necessary to stand up to the bullies.
It is necessary to acknowledge that there is anti-Semitism in progressive spaces and form a sense of allyship to deal with it, rather than throwing people under the bus if they complain about it.
Jewish organizations are spending too much time away from their core mission of protecting the Jewish community. The issues of poverty and employment discrimination against Jews are absent from the surveys and never treated as a priority. But there is a whole generation of Jewish women, especially those with disabilities or medical problems, moving into old age alone and in poverty without a support system, and the community is only ignoring it. Somehow, I can walk into a Jews space and immediately see the women alone or the women in wheelchairs. I am not talking about charity. I am talking about equality, jobs and fulfillment and appreciation of our education and professional skills, and allyship. Other faiths, such as the Diocese and the LDS church, have networking to help their members get jobs and opportunity.
So far, King County hasn't included the Jewish experience in its hate crime and bias reporting system, and no Jewish organizations are authorized to administer the survey.
"What happens when Jews learn they are allegedly complicit in white supremacy?" This is the problem. Intercultural dialog and multicultural education to promote mutual understanding are being replaced by ideological bullying and epithet throwing. Yes there is structure racism in American business and culture. But that doesn't mean that hatred towards Jews and Jewish concerns in progressive spaces should be tolerated or even supported by Jewish organizations.
"benefit from social power" Many Jews from a low income background and with darker skin don't have any of this social power. It's quite the opposite. I think our Jewish community needs to acknowledge the problem of Jewish financial poverty and not ignore that 10% of American Jews earn less than $32,000 per year, in spite of all of our education. Look at the education we women have, and look at the jobs we have ... Some of us never had things like inheritance or parents paying for our music lessons.
Jewish Democratic Council Statement on the web page: Racial Equality and Criminal Justice Reform: Throughout our history, Jewish people have faced oppression, bigotry, and violence. We have known the devastating consequences of silence in the face of persecution and hatred. The Jewish struggle for freedom and safety is intertwined with that of Black Americans, and our history and sacred texts demand we pursue justice and equality and raise our voice against racism.
For generations, the American Jewish community has been a leader and partner in countless social and political movements, motivated by our core Jewish values that prioritize justice and equality in the face of strife and bigotry. JDCA believes that Black lives matter. We stand with the Black community and other groups targeted by police violence and systemic racism, and support efforts and reforms to bring about racial and criminal justice. We recognize the critical role of the police, and we must boldly face our nation’s painful history of slavery, segregation, disenfranchisement, and hatred, and ensure greater accountability in law enforcement. Specifically, we support the following measures:
Police reform, including banning police chokeholds, banning the transfer of military weapons to our civilian police force, mandating wide-spread body camera use, and establishing a national commission on police violence.
Criminal justice reform, including federal efforts to reform cash bail, which can criminalize poverty and disproportionately negatively impact communities of color.
Ending the racial wealth gap and advancing economic mobility, including ensuring access to equal credit and capital, fighting housing discrimination and appraisal discrimination in predominantly minority communities, and fighting for equal pay.
Ensuring equal access to high-quality affordable healthcare including mental healthcare and supporting federal efforts to combat racial inequities in medicine, –maternal healthcare–and housing.
Ensuring and protecting the right to vote for all eligible Americans, fighting voter suppression and supporting the restoration of voting rights for former felons.
Isn't it interesting that when a comment is made about Jews, we're told that interpretations are subjective, but microaggression is considered to be the decision of the receiver. Another bit of circular reason we are subjected to in progressive spaces. So while supporting racial equity, it's also important to not let persons in these progressive spaces take verbal potshots at our community.
When I reported something to the ADL, the ADL issued a legal letter (without showing it to me first or getting my consent) to the organization subject to the complaint. The letter states that the "allegations" cannot be verified. This is an example of how Jewish organizations' actions can result in delegitimatizing and undermining the credibility of Jews who step forward with a complaint. A statement of one's experience is not an "allegation," and the existence of recordings and e-mails is counter to the claim that a person's claim is not "verifiable." This is an example of how Jewish organizations are not standing up for Jews enough and actually throwing members of the Jewish community under the bus. This generates a legal response from the subject of the complaint rather than an intercultural or interfaith dialog. I experienced a great deal of damage from this process when I was reaching out for support and guidance. There is vacuum with respect to real Jewish allyship.
I support education about Black history and Native American history. I support reparations and other programs to help compensate these who suffered generational trauma. (I also support American Jews getting reparations from Europe.) What I do not support is a license for people in progressive spaces to utter and enable misinformation and negative speech about Jews. For example, it is not all right to let it go by if people make negative remarks about the Jewish response to the Holocaust. And even worse is when progressive spaces look for Jewish organizations to delegitimize and marginalize other Jews who complain or attempt to tell their stories.
Silence about oppression and employment discrimination against Jews, our history and rational fact-based Middle East policy is the price Jews are being ordered to pay as an admission ticket into the progressive movement, and that is not acceptable. It is necessary to stand up to the bullies.
Jews and Black descendants of US Slavery are allies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/us/politics/doug-mastriano-confederate-uniform-army.html
It is necessary to acknowledge that there is anti-Semitism in progressive spaces and form a sense of allyship to deal with it, rather than throwing people under the bus if they complain about it.
Jewish organizations are spending too much time away from their core mission of protecting the Jewish community. The issues of poverty and employment discrimination against Jews are absent from the surveys and never treated as a priority. But there is a whole generation of Jewish women, especially those with disabilities or medical problems, moving into old age alone and in poverty without a support system, and the community is only ignoring it. Somehow, I can walk into a Jews space and immediately see the women alone or the women in wheelchairs. I am not talking about charity. I am talking about equality, jobs and fulfillment and appreciation of our education and professional skills, and allyship. Other faiths, such as the Diocese and the LDS church, have networking to help their members get jobs and opportunity.
So far, King County hasn't included the Jewish experience in its hate crime and bias reporting system, and no Jewish organizations are authorized to administer the survey.
https://kingcounty.gov/elected/executive/equity-social-justice/Coalition-Against-Hate-And-Bias/Coalition-Survey.aspx
"What happens when Jews learn they are allegedly complicit in white supremacy?" This is the problem. Intercultural dialog and multicultural education to promote mutual understanding are being replaced by ideological bullying and epithet throwing. Yes there is structure racism in American business and culture. But that doesn't mean that hatred towards Jews and Jewish concerns in progressive spaces should be tolerated or even supported by Jewish organizations.
I don't see Jews and Jewish organizations included in King County's hate crime and bias survey system. https://kingcounty.gov/elected/executive/equity-social-justice/Coalition-Against-Hate-And-Bias/Coalition-Survey.aspx
"benefit from social power" Many Jews from a low income background and with darker skin don't have any of this social power. It's quite the opposite. I think our Jewish community needs to acknowledge the problem of Jewish financial poverty and not ignore that 10% of American Jews earn less than $32,000 per year, in spite of all of our education. Look at the education we women have, and look at the jobs we have ... Some of us never had things like inheritance or parents paying for our music lessons.