Rebecca Pierce is an African-American and Jewish filmmaker, activist and journalist. She is a core member of the Jews of Color and Sephardi/Mizrahi (JOCSM) Caucus organized in partnership with Jewish Voice for Peace, where she is Editor-in-Chief of the racial justice blog Unruly.
Rebecca Pierce
By Rebecca Pierce
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Opinion Attacking Ilhan Omar Isn’t Fighting Anti-Semitism. It’s Upholding White Supremacy.
On February 10, Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar came under fire for a few tweets. Omar was responding to a comment by journalist Glenn Greenwald, which was itself about Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy’s attacks against Omar and Michigan Rep Rashida Tlaib for their pro-Palestinian stances. Greenwald saw these Republican attacks as a manifestation of US…
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Opinion Black Jewish Voices Are Finally Being Heard. So Is The Racist Backlash.
As Jews of Color gain more visibility and representation in the Jewish world and beyond, we are pushing the boundaries of Jewish conversations on inclusion, race, and politics. Many in the Jewish community see the value of our contributions. But we are also facing a racist backlash. The most recent example of this occurred earlier…
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Opinion Why Jewish Organizations Should Not Be Tearing Down Angela Davis
On Sunday, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute announced that it was rescinding the 2019 Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award it previously planned to grant to Black Power icon Angela Davis, and cancelling the annual fundraising gala where it is presented. While the BCRI did not give a specific reason for the decision, local reporting and…
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Opinion Alice Walker’s Conspiracy Theories Aren’t Just Anti-Semitic – They’re Anti-Black
Every generation that struggles against oppression stands on the shoulders of those who came before us. But even as we honor those who taught us, we must also challenge them when they stray from the path of fighting for justice, and fall into the trap of stigmatizing one community to uplift another. For Black feminists,…
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Opinion Sheryl Sandberg Was Always Evil. Your Privilege Made You Love Her.
This week, the New York Times released an explosive report revealing that Facebook hired a far-right consultant group to smear privacy activists. Worse, the consultants used anti-Semitic conspiracy theories connecting the activists to Jewish billionaire and Holocaust survivor George Soros. Worse still, this anti-Semitic smear-tactic was executed at the behest of Facebook’s Jewish COO Sheryl…
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Opinion The Pittsburgh Killer And Kroger’s Gunman Didn’t Just Kill. They Stole Our Memory.
As the names and ages of those lost in last week’s horrific massacre during Shabbat morning services at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue were released, one heartbreaking fact stood out: The victims were 11 worshippers, all between the ages of 54 and 97. The US Black community also lost two elders last week in a…
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Opinion In Funding Canary Mission, Jewish Federation Betrayed Us
The revelation that mainstream Jewish organizations like the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco have been secretly funding Canary Mission, a widely-condemned online blacklist of students and professionals critical of Israel, pulls back the curtain on a stunning abuse of the trust and esteem placed on these groups by the Jewish communities they purport to…
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Opinion Jews Must Stop Viewing Racial Justice Organizers As A Threat
The aftermath of the deadly white supremacist violence at the “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville over the weekend has left marginalized communities across the country traumatized. It has also resurfaced long simmering debates on racial justice brought to a head in the Trump era. The stated reason for the rally, a protest of the…
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