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Originally published by the Detroit Jewish News<\/a><\/p>\n

April 15, 2025
\nby JN Staff<\/p>\n

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Adat Shalom hosted a community conversation on the crisis of antisemitism and its role in the state of American democracy.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

On the evening of March 12, University of Michigan Regent Jordan Acker and Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, came together for a community conversation on the crisis of antisemitism \u2014 from campus to politics to violent extremism \u2014 and the urgency of building strong coalitions to protect our communities and democracy in this moment.<\/p>\n

The program, \u201cAntisemitism, Democracy and Building an Inclusive America,\u201d was hosted at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills and was moderated by Rabbi Blair Nosanwisch.<\/p>\n

A major theme shared throughout the discussion was that antisemitism not only threatens the Jewish community \u2014 but it also jeopardizes the rights and safety of countless other communities as well as fundamental democratic norms and values \u2014 and when democracy is undermined, antisemitism and broader hate and extremism flourish.<\/p>\n

Spitalnick and Acker shared an understanding of what antisemitism looked like on one end of the spectrum prior to Oct. 7, 2023 \u2014 an antisemitism based on dangerous conspiracy theories that has fueled attacks on the Jewish community. Spitalnick noted that extremism, hatred and those conspiracy theories have \u201cmoved from the fringes into the mainstream of our political discourse.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. was already seeing heightened levels of antisemitism in that sense. And then came the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel and the Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n

A Different Landscape<\/strong><\/p>\n

For many Jews, including a Democrat like Acker or Spitalnick, who has always considered herself a \u201cprogressive Zionist,\u201d the past year and a half has seen the landscape drastically change. Those who thought of themselves as coming from liberal worldviews and perspectives have felt thrust out from progressive spaces and conversations in which they were previously welcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, the actual horrific violence and images we saw were already jarring for our community, and we\u2019re still very much in that trauma because hostages remain and lives are still being lost on both sides of this conflict,\u201d Spitalnick said. \u201cBut what we saw unleashed here at home afterwards was unlike anything any of us could have imagined. The band-aid was ripped off in a whole other way. It was jarring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Already knowing what antisemitism can look like on one side, Spitalnick expressed what\u2019s been harder in terms of progressive and liberal spaces since Oct. 7 is to identify where criticism and conversation about Israel has crossed the line into antisemitism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last year and a half has made crystal clear that the conversation on Israel in far too many cases has crossed the line from legitimate policy debate, legitimate protests, to real, direct acts of bigotry and even extremism and violence,\u201d Spitalnick said. \u201cThat\u2019s something Jordan and many others know all too well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, Acker does. In June 2024, vandals defaced Acker\u2019s Southfield law office with anti-Israel graffiti, and months later, targeted Acker at his Oakland County home, spraying similar graffiti on the property and breaking the front window of his home while Acker and his family were sleeping inside.<\/p>\n

Acker said Oct. 7 was the single most disorienting event of his life and criticized campus climate around the country since that day.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur leaders on our campuses utterly failed our college students,\u201d he said, specifically citing a failure to enforce rules and have adequate consequences.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen over and over again is faculty has led students to believe if you\u2019re on the \u2018right\u2019 side of an issue, there should be no consequences. That is a dangerous ideology and one that leads people to believe showing up at my house at 4 a.m. has no consequence,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Spitalnick and Acker also discussed the widespread efforts to ban and boycott Zionists in various spaces since Oct. 7.<\/p>\n

The Definition of Zionism<\/strong><\/p>\n

So many people, Spitalnick said, are not even speaking the same language regarding some core terms being screamed about on campuses and beyond. What the term Zionism means to Spitalnick is clearly different from how many others view it, and a term being used like \u201cintifada\u201d surely means something very different to Jews. Helping each side of the conflict understand how the other side hears these terms has been needed in this time, Spitalnick stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, Zionism is simply the belief there should be a Jewish homeland somewhere in this land where we have deep historical connections, and it actually goes hand-in-hand with my belief in Palestinian self-determination, human rights and dignity,\u201d she said. \u201cOne can\u2019t exist without the other in my Zionism.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd for the vast majority of American Jews who have a relationship with Israel, 80%-90% of us, that doesn\u2019t mean we agree with every action of the Israeli government. It doesn\u2019t mean we don\u2019t believe in Palestinian human rights and dignity, but we do have this relationship with Israel,\u201d Spitalnick added. \u201cSo, when we\u2019re hearing efforts to ban and boycott Zionists, that\u2019s effectively telling us that 80%-90% of Jews who have this relationship with Israel, as complex and messy and different as it might be from Jew to Jew, are not welcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only is that problematic in and of itself because of how it targets and discriminates against Jews, but it also fundamentally divides Jews from the very spaces, coalitions and places we need to be in at a moment when democracy is under threat,\u201d she continued. \u201cJews are among the first being targeted, and you need broad, inclusive coalitions to effectively fight the extremism we\u2019re facing right now. How we help people understand this undercuts the very work we need to do together to protect democracy in this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Democratic Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n

That big idea \u2014 democracy \u2014 was tied into every portion of the discussion, including how the issue of antisemitism is potentially being used as a tool to undermine it.<\/p>\n

Acker said what\u2019s been jarring in recent months is seeing members of the Jewish community react positively to the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cattacks\u201d on American universities in the name of protecting Jewish students.<\/p>\n

Acker expressed that even though Jews are \u201crightly angry\u201d with how university administrators have handled their grief and very real problems, \u201ccelebrating\u201d in this moment is something they have to step back from.<\/p>\n

Acker continued by saying \u201can America that deports people without due process, strips universities of fundamental freedoms and attacks democratic institutions\u201d is not one in which Jews mesh well. \u201cWe do not do well in societies where there is no rule of law \u2026 that\u2019s starting the clock because the mob always turns on its Jews. This is why wherever you are on the political spectrum, we have to stand up for these institutions, because these institutions have allowed us to have prosperity and safety in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spitalnick shared that a lot of her work, personally and in her current role at JCPA, has been rooted in the understanding that Jewish safety and democracy are intrinsically linked.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this moment, we\u2019re seeing how very real concerns around antisemitism are being weaponized as the tip of the spear to advance broader anti-democratic attacks on civil liberties and rule of law,\u201d she said. \u201cWe can be clear-eyed that there is both very real antisemitism that exists on campus and that everyone in this country is entitled to due process and civil liberties, and using our community as an excuse or exploiting our very real fears and concerns around antisemitism to undermine democratic norms and the rule of law will ultimately make us less safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spitalnick explained we\u2019re in a \u201cfeedback loop\u201d right now where antisemitism is \u201cfueling and animating the undermining of our democracy\u201d in a variety of different ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd as democracy erodes, it\u2019s only making things less safe for Jews. We need to break that cycle, and the way we can do that is understanding Jewish safety and democracy aren\u2019t actually two conflicting ideas; they\u2019re one and the same, despite extreme voices on both sides of the political spectrum trying to pit them against each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Spitalnick and Acker agreed the idea of democracy being a partisan issue is a dangerous one.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>The health of democracy requires two pro-democracy parties. There is no world where American democracy can depend only on the success of Democrats winning office,\u201d Acker said. \u201cWe as Americans need to come together and realize the only way we get through this period in our history, whether you\u2019re conservative or liberal, is to respect the institutions that made this country great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allyship Is Important<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moving forward, Spitalnick raised the question of how Jews can do some level-setting on allyship and helping others understand what it means to show up for Jews in this moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, I\u2019m not asking you to put up an Israeli flag or support the Israeli government or the IDF. If you disagree with their actions, by all means, you should,\u201d Spitalnick said. \u201cI\u2019m asking you to see the pain and grief the Jewish community is in right now \u2014 the same way we as Jews need to fundamentally see the pain and trauma of Palestinians, Arab Americans and Muslims-Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s most important when engaging on the conflict, Spitalnick says, is to not lose sight of the humanity of people on both sides.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what allyship means to me, it\u2019s not agreeing with me on what needs to happen in terms of the conflict; it\u2019s not supporting the Israeli government or all its actions. It\u2019s fundamentally approaching this from a place of humanity and dignity for all people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we\u2019re not doing that; we\u2019re failing; we see each other as caricatures,\u201d Acker added. \u201cSeeing each other as people, that\u2019s ultimately what we need.\u201d<\/p>\n

That also extends to the need for productive dialogue with those you may disagree with. Acker shared he recently had coffee with Rep. Rashida Tlaib.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not because we agree on everything \u2014 in fact, we agree on almost nothing \u2014 but we made an agreement that we would see each other as people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Even after major disagreements, or if Tlaib says or does something Acker is completely against, that\u2019s what they stick to. Acker says Tlaib texts him, asking how his daughters are doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny conversation we have moving forward has to start with that small thing. \u2018How are your kids?\u2019 Start there and see people as people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Spitalnick shared that last year, she was invited to a webinar on antisemitism with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, someone who also elicits strong feelings in the Jewish community.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said yes because she was inviting me to talk about antisemitism to her audience, people who have never heard from someone like me who identifies as a progressive Zionist. We had a very frank conversation, not only about the antisemitism I think she was comfortable talking about on the right, but the way antisemitism manifests in the Israel conversation,\u201d Spitalnick recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said a number of important things in that conversation, including that antisemitism is real, it exists in progressive spaces, and it\u2019s a threat to progressive values and the fight for peace.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still have fundamental disagreements on the issues related to Israel and Gaza, but having conversations with people who are willing to have them is something within our control. We have to take those opportunities to have conversations rooted in humanity and try to find the path forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Acker stated that after a rough 2023-24 school year, Jewish life on campus has rebounded with a lot of the Jewish communal spaces in Ann Arbor taking on new meaning for students. Moving forward, Acker says, the Jewish people need to know they\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt may be harder to reach out. It may be more difficult to have conversations. But the reality is Jews are not alone,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s important we speak up for ourselves and continue to engage in spaces across the political spectrum. We have great allies, we just have to know how to reach them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Above all, Spitalnick stressed that the Jewish community cannot walk away from democracy in service of combating antisemitism, no matter the pressures to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to do what\u2019s within our power to keep fighting for our safety and do so in a way that doesn\u2019t abandon the values inherent to our protection in this country for generations,\u201d Spitalnick said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be increasingly hard because that\u2019s quite literally the goal of extremists, to make us want to walk away from democracy, to use us as a political football, to pit us and other communities against one another.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll we can do is be very clear-eyed about that being their intent and resist it at every possible turn. The way we do that is to keep showing up in spaces like this, keep engaging strongly and proudly in Jewish life, and don\u2019t walk away from democratic and coalitional spaces and institutions that are so important to our safety and to so many others.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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