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(Jewish Group) ADL's Black-Jewish Alliance will help fight racisim and anti-semitism
(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)Philadelphia’s Anti-Defamation League and black community leaders have formed a new organization to build stronger relationships and “fight the twin sins of racism and anti-semitism.” The Black-Jewish Alliance will build on the historic connections between the two communities.
With the one-year anniversary of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Viriginia, as a backdrop, the Philadelphia branch of the Anti-Defamation League joined this week with black community leaders to form the Black-Jewish Alliance of the ADL.
The Charlottesville march, where three people died when ultra-right white nationalists targeted Jews and blacks during a rally that turned violent, took place Aug. 11 and 12 last year.
Blacks and Jews have a long history of cooperation, dating back to the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement. The tragedy in Charlottesville, said founders of the new alliance, underscores the need to renew that relationship. “Charlottesville cemented us even more,” said Robin Burstein, an associate regional director with the ADL.
Alan Gubernick, chairman of the board of the Philadelphia ADL, said, in a statement, that the newly created alliance reflects the ADL’s long-established mission to reject hate in all its forms. “In 1913, ADL’s founders set our mission as ‘stopping the defamation of the Jewish people and securing justice and fair treatment to all.’ We believed then, as we do today, that a minority can never be safe, equal and free in this country until all minorities are safe.”
As a growing number of Americans feel emboldened to voice their racism, incidents on college campuses and elsewhere, are increasing. The ADL’s Center on Extremism created an interactive map displaying incidents of “hate, extremism, anti-semitism and terrorism” across the country. Compiled from news accounts, victim reports and government documents, the ADL said there’s been 3,023 such incidents in 2017-18.
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