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Jewish Community Holds Black Lives Matter Rally in New York

Members of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice held a protest to "end White silence."
Jewish Community Holds Black Lives Matter Rally in New York
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By Amber McKynzie · Updated October 27, 2020

Black Lives Matter doesn’t mean only Black lives matter. And the New York’s Jewish community proved that last Thursday when Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) marched and rallied in the name of BLM in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood.

According to ParkSlopeStoop.com, JFREJ held a successful and peaceful rally “protest police violence against people of color, and demand police accountability through the passage of the City Council’s Right To Know Act.” Beginning at Jay Z’s formerly-owned Barclay’s Center, Yehudah Webster, JFREJ member and leader of Jews of Color, began a call and response chant on his microphone.

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“Even though we are angry at the injustice of police brutality,” Webster said, and the crowd responded, “we gather here for love, for lost brothers and sisters, our communities and each other.”

JFREJ explained why they were marching by saying, “Jews say Black Lives Matter not only because we know what it is to be oppressed, but also because police violence against Black people is deeply personal for Black members of the Jewish community.”

Take a look at the march moving from Brooklyn to New York’s Bond street below.

ParkSlopeStoop.com also reports that while also rallying to let people know Black Jews Matter, protestors also “called for the fair passage of the Right to Know Act, which has two primary components: “Requiring NYPD officers to identify themselves” (Intro 182) and “Protecting New Yorkers against unconstitutional searches” (Intro 541).”

JFREJ efforts are met by 200-plus New York-based organizations in addition to support from a majority of Council members.

 

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