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Urge Sunrise to apologize for its discrimination against and boycott of the Jewish community, which will continue to join in the fight to seek equal rights for all.

Condemn Sunrise Movement's Hate

The Washington, DC chapter of the Sunrise Movement, a national climate action group, broke their commitment to participate in a critical voting rights rally this weekend in Washington, DC due to the participation of numerous Jewish organizations who are joining in solidarity with the voting rights movement. This boycott of Jewish organizations followed the chapter’s failed attempt to force the rally’s main organizer to block several Jewish groups from participating. According to a statement Sunrise DC released on their Twitter page, which has since been made private, its leaders claim their pledge to uphold justice and “indigenous sovereignty” prevents them from working alongside groups which support Israel.

Unfortunately, this reasoning is as hypocritical as the group’s promise to promote inclusivity and acceptance in the fight for equal rights. After all, how is justice served when Jews, who make up a mere 2 percent of the US population yet are the victims of 60 percent of religious hate crimes, are excluded from our nation’s most imperative conversations? How is indigenous sovereignty promoted when Jews are attacked for supporting Israel, a land where they have maintained a continual presence for nearly 4,000 years?

The bottom line is this: By ostracizing and boycotting Jewish groups and targeting their members, Sunrise DC is both undermining support for the causes the group claims to care about while igniting the world’s oldest hatred of antisemitism. At a time when assaults against the Jewish community, both within the United States and around the world, are surging at an alarming rate, any group dedicated to justice must stand against antisemitism, not contribute to it.

Urge Sunrise to apologize for its discrimination against and boycott of the Jewish community, and urge others in these spaces to be truly inclusive as the Jewish community continues its long history in the US of fighting for justice and equality for all.

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The Washington, DC chapter of the Sunrise Movement, a national climate action group, broke their commitment to participate in a critical voting rights rally this weekend in Washington, DC due to the participation of numerous Jewish organizations who are joining in solidarity with the voting rights movement. This boycott of Jewish organizations followed the chapter’s failed attempt to force the rally’s main organizer to block several Jewish groups from participating. According to a statement Sunrise DC released on their Twitter page, which has since been made private, its leaders claim their pledge to uphold justice and “indigenous sovereignty” prevents them from working alongside groups which support Israel.

Unfortunately, this reasoning is as hypocritical as the group’s promise to promote inclusivity and acceptance in the fight for equal rights. After all, how is justice served when Jews, who make up a mere 2 percent of the US population yet are the victims of 60 percent of religious hate crimes, are excluded from our nation’s most imperative conversations? How is indigenous sovereignty promoted when Jews are attacked for supporting Israel, a land where they have maintained a continual presence for nearly 4,000 years?

The bottom line is this: By ostracizing and boycotting Jewish groups and targeting their members, Sunrise DC is both undermining support for the causes the group claims to care about while igniting the world’s oldest hatred of antisemitism. At a time when assaults against the Jewish community, both within the United States and around the world, are surging at an alarming rate, any group dedicated to justice must stand against antisemitism, not contribute to it.

Urge Sunrise to apologize for its discrimination against and boycott of the Jewish community, and urge others in these spaces to be truly inclusive as the Jewish community continues its long history in the US of fighting for justice and equality for all.