12.16.2015
Lillian Rosengarten’s wrenching memoir, Survival and Conscience: From the Shadows of Nazi Germany to the Jewish Boat to Gaza.
***** must read. If we are going to survive as a human race, we’re going to do it through civil society actively working for human rights, not promoting closed policies that mimic Nazi Germany or Communist Russia.........
12.14.2015
***** Why do so many Israelis hate Breaking the Silence? The organization of former Israeli soldiers is coming under attack from every direction these days — from the Israel’s president to the defense minister to the police. So what’s the deal?
12.09.2015
12.03.2015
***** utterly magnificent. Absolute must read. Israeli and U.S. state oppression are deeply interconnected. Tear gas used against protesters in Ferguson is the same used daily on Palestinians. Israeli police proudly train U.S. police in population control tactics, and vice versa. State-sanctioned killings and systemic racism play out in our city, as well as in occupied Palestine.
11.27.2015
In defense of Jews, a note to my ex Jewish friend.
I adore Christ. Even to the point of having a cross tattooed on my forehead. To that extreme degree I detest Christmas and Christianity. With all due respect, again, I strongly disagree with you laying the horror of Palestine at the feet of all Jews. There are billions of people that self describe as Christians. As one who adores Jesus, I see not one in a million that Jesus would say follow him. Among the few godly people I see on earth are the real Jews who are fighting the genocide. Are they perfect? I doubt that they are. But Jews, true Jews, are showing incredible godliness. The rest, to me, are Zionists, non Jews. It is not consequential to me how they self-describe. Gideon Levy is the problem? Noam Chomsky is the problem? Max Blumenthal is the problem? Jewish Voice for Peace is the problem? Norman Finkelstein is the problem? in my view, none of these great souls is perfect. They all carry baggage. I understand them to be among the handful of true Jews, incredibly godly, and not the problem. I detest all of the organized religions, all of them, for what they have made of themselves. But I cannot afford myself the luxury of painting with too broad of a brush. There are Christians that Jesus would recognize as such, though just one in a million. There are Jews, one in a million, that the Creator would recognize as such. I am going to discourage even them by not acknowledging their godliness? How could I do such a thing?
11.17.2015
Jewish Voice for Peace: join us in standing against Islamophobia in this time of grief
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11.16.2015
In West Bank, rabbi leads search for peace, one olive harvest at a time Arik Ascherman, who heads Rabbis for Human Rights, invokes texts that call for tolerance. For years he has worked to protect the Palestinian olive harvest from Israeli attacks.
11.14.2015
Fewer British Jews identifying as 'Zionists,' poll shows
11.13.2015
Survey finds 41 per cent of young Jews would back sanctions against Israel to advance peace
Temple Israel of White Plains’ support of an Israel boycott
11.12.2015
Almost a quarter of British Jews would back 'sanctions against Israel', says new poll The survey finds that many British Jews have grave misgivings over Israeli government policy, with 75 per cent believing settlement expansion is an "obstacle to peace".
11.10.2015
I went from Bar Mitzvah to BDS at Temple Emanu-el
Rebecca Vilkomerson of Jewish Voice for Peace adds: “It is unconscionable that a think tank that professes liberal values is giving a platform to a warmongering, racist, neo-conservative like Netanyahu to make his case.”
***** Jewish American activists unfurl banner in support of BDS at the Western Wall
11.09.2015
Jewish Voice for Peace: If You Want Justice, Support All Forms of Nonviolent Pressure on Israel
11.07.2015
***** Leader of Union for Reform Judaism slams Israel's ‘misguided’ policies
11.05.2015
Video. Young Jewish Voice for Peace members disrupting Netanyahu.
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