Even With Backlash, Transformative Racial Justice Work Is Still Possible
You may have seen yesterday’s article in the New York Times about DEI efforts at the University of Michigan and “what went wrong.” These bad-faith narratives about DEI are already tired (even if some critiques are valid). And, as potent as the backlash against DEI has been, I still believe that we (social sector practitioners committed to racial justice) are achieving and can continue to achieve real wins, as long as we stay grounded, relational, and connected to a sense of possibility.
Applying Racial Justice Principles To Israel-Palestine: A guide for organizations committed to DEI
Israel's unfolding genocide in Gaza is testing foundations' and nonprofits' public commitments to DEI. If our sector is serious about racial equity, then institutions have to apply and act on racial justice principles consistently, including with Israel-Palestine. This article explores some of these principles and ways organizations might apply them around this issue.
Opposing Genocide in Palestine is the Most Jewish Thing We Can Do
As Israelis go off to war in Gaza and beyond, we will tell ourselves there was no choice. But the children in Gaza never voted for Hamas, never asked to be born under siege in a 25-mile-wide refugee camp, never asked for violence in their names. The violence we wreak now will create lifelong trauma that we will pass onto our children, the same way my father — an engineer in the IDF — passed his onto me.