According to activist Cherie
Brown,
the
first
Jewish-
American Princess didn’t have
a Canada Goose jacket or a
Love Your Melon beanie — she
was a woman named Marjorie
Morningstar,
from
a
book
published more than half a
century ago.
“It was during a period in the
50s after the Holocaust, where
Jews had had a third of their
people
decimated,”
Brown
said. “There was a feeling
that upward mobility could
be a vehicle for security. The
JAP stereotype is the blaming
of Jewish women for the
upward mobility of the Jewish
community in the attempt to
try to escape anti-Semitism.”
Brown, founder and CEO of
National
Coalition
Building
Institute – an organization
that promotes social change
and offers training in diversity,
equity and inclusion – hosted
a workshop titled “What is
Anti-Semitism and Why is it
Everyone’s
Concern?”
with
a group of about 20 students
Wednesday at the Michigan
Union.
Student
Life
and
Michigan Hillel co-sponsored
the event.
Brown
discussed
three
primary signifiers of anti-
Semitism. The first, she said,
was the unfair targeting and
blaming of Jewish people.
“All kinds of things are going
on – all kinds of issues – but
you’re singling out the Jewish
people, saying, ‘It’s your fault.’
The history of anti-Semitism
is Jews being singled out for
blame,” she said.
The second was a strategy
of division, what Brown called
“diverting the attention of
people from the oppression
around them” to focusing and
fixating on Jewish people. The
third signifier was isolation.
“Jews were ghettoized
and
not
allowed
to
participate in the rest of
society,” Brown said. “Any
time Jews get isolated out,
that is anti-Semitism.”
Brown also illustrated
what she called the hook, a
self-fulfilling cycle of anti-
Semitism and racism. In
her diagram, a fear of anti-
Semitism
makes
Jewish
communities
“scared
active.”
“The fear propels us to
action,” Brown said. “We
might interrupt things, we
might try to take charge
of things. You do that
particularly around people
of color and what’s it called?
That’s racism. It’s a hook.
It’s
the
intersection
of
racism and anti-Semitism.
It’s a dynamic.”
Conversation
turned
to
the
Central
Student
Government
resolution
to divest from companies
that
operate
in
Israel.
The
resolution
passed
for the first time in the
University’s
history
last
November.
CSG
representative
Izzy
Baer, an LSA sophomore, said
she authored the resolution for
Brown to speak to CSG after
the vote.
“I
was
an
outspoken
student during the divestment
resolution, more on the side of
I don’t think that this should
be in the hands of CSG because
we’re
students
and
we’re
not experts on the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict overall,”
Baer said. “I think a lot of
Jewish students talked about
how they felt targeted from
this because they felt it was
direct target on the state of
Israel. There’s so much nuance
to anti-Semitism as a form
of oppression and it’s really
complicated and it’s not really
talked about.”
LSA senior Joe Goldberg
also attended the workshop.
Goldberg serves as chief of
staff to CSG president Anushka
Sarkar, and was the center of
controversy during #UMDivest
for alleged ethics violations.
Goldberg
previously
served
as Hillel’s External Relations
chair.
“Contemporary
anti-
Semitism I think is a very
interesting topic for a lot of
reasons, mostly because it’s so
ambiguous,” he said. “There
isn’t really a defined answer of
what it is. As a senior, I started
to feel it for the first time on
campus, and when I look back
at my time at Michigan and
my time in internships and
communal activities, I realize
I’ve experienced much more
than I’ve ever given myself
credit for.”
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