Read this: Jewish Unitarian Universalists say ‘notice and name’ antisemitism

Read this: Jewish Unitarian Universalists say ‘notice and name’ antisemitism

Letter from Jewish-identified UU clergy to Unitarian Universalists: ‘White supremacy culture and anti-Semitism are bound up together and must be challenged.’

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A group of Jewish-identified Unitarian Universalist clergy has published an open letter to Unitarian Universalists urging them to “notice and name anti-Semitism” as UUs challenge white supremacy culture.

“Jews are one of many targets of these rising waves of hatred,” the clergy write. “This is not surprising: ‘Jewishness’ as ‘other’ has long been bound up with social constructions of race and racialized oppression. Some Jewish people experience white skin privilege; some do not. White supremacy culture and anti-Semitism are bound up together and must be challenged.”

When first published, the letter included the signatures of twenty-six clergy. The full text of the open letter, which appears on the website and Facebook page of Unitarian Universalists for Jewish Awareness, includes links to a variety of resources.


Corrections

An earlier version of this post identified the original group of signers as “Jewish-identified Unitarian Universalist ministers.” One of the signers is a rabbi who serves a Unitarian Universalist congregation.

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