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protest in Lansing in April, we 
will recall, many of the signage 
was openly anti-
Semitic and racist, and 
included Nazi swastikas and 
Confederate flags.
The SPLC has published 
a practical resource manual, 
“10 Ways to Fight Hate: A 
Community Resource Guide.” 
Many of the tips can be done 
from home, including making 
phone calls, sending emails, 
educating oneself, pressuring 
leaders, supporting victims 
and joining forces with others. 
As the Resource Guide states: 
“Do something. In the face of 
hatred, apathy will be inter-
preted as acceptance by the 
perpetrators, the public and 
— worse — the victims. If we 
don’
t, hate persists.”
Locally, the Jewish 
Community Relations 
Council/AJC offers a variety of 
opportunities for volunteers to 
engage in fighting anti-Semi-
tism, racism and bigotry, even 
during the coronavirus crisis. 
(See jcrcajc.org.)
“In order to fight anti-Sem-
itism, racism and bigotry,” 
says Executive Director Rabbi 
Asher Lopatin, “we have to 
both advocate for stronger No 
Hate laws and model respect 
and civility amongst our 
diverse communities. So we 
bring together many differ-
ent communities — Jewish, 
Muslim, African American, 
Hindu, Catholic and others 
— to be a strong voice against 
hatred.”
For the past three years, 
the JCRC/AJC has partnered 
with the Council of Baptist 
Pastors of Detroit and Vicinity 
in operating the Coalition 
for Black and Jewish Unity. 
During the time of this pan-
demic, both the JCRC/AJC 
and the Coalition have been 

particularly active in program-
ming and events on Facebook 
and Zoom webinars that pro-
mote solidarity and speak out 
against anti-Semitism, racism 
and bigotry (full disclosure — 
I’
m on the board of the JCRC/
AJC and a co-director of the 
Coalition).
At the 1963 March on 
Washington, Rabbi Joachim 
Prinz, with Dr. Martin Luther 
King, Jr. standing beside 
him, told the massive crowd 
that when he was a rabbi 
in Berlin under Hitler, he 
“learned many things. The 
most important … was that 
bigotry and hatred are not 
the most urgent problem. 
The most urgent, the most 
disgraceful, the most shameful 
and the most tragic problem is 
silence.”
During the time of this 
pandemic, even though we’
re 
avoiding public gatherings, 
we don’
t need to be silent in 
the struggle against hate. We 
don’
t need to sit back and 
powerlessly watch the haters 
spread their garbage. We can 
shine a spotlight on who they 
are, what they say and where 
they’
re going. We can combat 
their hate with truth. We can 
mobilize others to join the 
effort. We can support victims. 
We can pressure do-nothing 
politicians. We can and must 
be a loud, steady and strong 
voice for good in this world.
And we can easily do it all 
in our sweatpants and slip-
pers from the comfort of our 
couches. 

Mark Jacobs is the AIPAC Michigan 

chair for African American Outreach, 

a co-director of the Coalition for 

Black and Jewish Unity, a board 

member of the Jewish Community 

Relations Council-AJC and the 

director of Jewish Family Service’
s 

Legal Referral Committee.

