Jews Against Anti-Muslim Racism (JAAMR)* is an initiative offering resources for community education and organizing. This undertaking grows out of work that we have been doing with groups and communities across the country over the past decade, including resource and curriculum development and organizing.
We are excited to continue to develop resources to help strengthen our community education and organizing and to enable us to be principled, effective partners in challenging anti-Muslim racism. We look forward to continuing to work with the many groups we have partnered with and also to be a resource for new groups—community centers, organizations, universities, synagogues and Hebrew schools, high schools, foundations—that would like to deepen their work challenging anti-Muslim racism. We will support curriculum development and research responsive to local needs; help connect Jewish organizations and others with speakers, workshop facilitators, and resources; and explore different ways of acting in solidarity.
We strongly believe in the importance of thoughtful, challenging community and political education, so that our work can address long-standing systemic issues without unintentionally promoting anti-Muslim racism. We will continue to provide resources for organizing and community education to strengthen the ways that Jewish communities and others can meaningfully deepen their work to challenge Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism. We will also continue to work closely with PARCEO, a participatory research center, on curriculum development to make our resources as accessible as possible to a wide range of communities.
Most importantly, our work will continue to grow out of the organizing, analysis, and resources of Muslim and other impacted communities. As Jewish partners in this work, we consider ourselves accountable to these movements for justice. To ground our work, we have created an advisory circle of some of the people with whom we have worked closely for many years and whose wisdom and knowledge we deeply value.
We very much look forward to working together with you!
Elly Bulkin and Donna Nevel
Advisory Circle
Kalia Abiade, Sister Aisha al-Adawiya, Bina Ahmad, Abdeen Jabara, Alex Kane, Nina Mehta, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Linda Sarsour, Lesley Williams