18 | AUGUST 17 • 2023 

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aybe you have seen 
its hash-tagged slo-
gan on billboards 
while driving around Southeast 
Michigan or printed on T-shirts 
at Jewish community events. 
Far from a mere social media 
campaign, #EndJewHatred 
describes itself as an interna-
tional mobilizing grassroots 
campaign aimed at strengthen-

ing Jewish civil rights wherever 
the need arises to fight antisem-
itism. 
In response to a rash of 
anti-Jewish incidents in the 
state, most recently seen at 
University of Michigan with 
the vandalism of several 
off-campus fraternity houses, 
#EndJewHatred announced July 
25 the launch of a Michigan 

chapter. 
#EndJewHatred Michigan 
Director Adar 
Rubin said now is 
an opportune time 
to get a grassroots 
movement going 
in Michigan in the 
face of growing 
antisemitic and anti-Zionist 
rhetoric that is occurring in 

all sectors of society, including 
the workplace and within both 
major political parties. 
“It’s time for Michigan to 
take a leadership stance in the 
fight against Jew hatred,
” said 
Rubin, who is an MSU graduate 
and worked in previous roles in 
JCRC/AJC Detroit. “The esca-
lating number of incidents is 
something that deeply troubles 
me. I am very inspired by the 
idea of conducting grassroots 
action. We seek to empower, 
strengthen and unite the Jewish 
community on a grassroots 
level to fight back against bigot-
ry while showing up to demand 
both direct action and conse-
quence.
”
One event that especially 
inspired Rubin toward doing 
work in grassroots action was 
during the summer of 2021, 
when more than 150 Jews gath-
ered on Orchard Lake Road to 
rally against the growing tide of 
anti-Jewish and anti-Israel rhet-
oric in the wake of Operation 
Guardian of the Walls between 
Hamas and Israel. 
“I was so moved by the entire 
protest and showing up of so 
much solidarity with the Jewish 
community,
” Rubin said. “The 
launch of the #EndJewHatred 
movement in Michigan comes 
in response to a dramatic rise in 
threats of Jew-hatred over the 
past year, dangerously foment-
ing in the state.
”
Now, Rubin and a small 
group of volunteers are working 
to counter Jew-hatred from 
wherever it emanates. Members 
of the group have hung its ban-
ners on highway overpasses on 
the Lodge highway as well as in 
Ann Arbor right next to anti-Is-
rael banners, and they have also 
photographed themselves with 
banners outside Ann Arbor’s 
vandalized fraternity houses 
and outside the Southfield 
office of Congresswoman 
Rashida Tlaib. 

OUR COMMUNITY

Adar Rubin

Adar Rubin in front 
of the vandalized 
frat house

#EndJewHatred 
starts new 
Michigan chapter.

STACY GITTLEMAN 
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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