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Brown’s response to the antisemitic Hillel note fails to center the Jewish community

The Brown Daily Herald

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“This type of response also fails to provide us with space to see the particular ways in which A form of oppression targeting Jews and those perceived to be Jewish, including bigoted speech, violent acts, and discriminatory policy. Learn more manifests. Both a system of beliefs that holds that White people are intrinsically superior and a system of institutional arrangements that favors White people as a group. Learn more  weaponizes conspiratorial hatred of Jewish people as fuel for its racist ideology. An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of racial difference. Racism as an ideology claims superiority of the socially constructed category, White, over other racialized categories based on the false idea that race is a fixed and immutable reality. Learn more and antisemitism amplify each other in deeply insidious ways, but we are unable to effectively see and address those very real connections if we immediately homogenize all forms of hatred.”

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