Stalin
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it is not just voices like mine crying in the wilderness..opposition to warcrime and atrocity is growing day by day
a serious essay on what is happening to young jewish people in the US
"Israel has become the enduring source of the most intense intracommunal conflict among American Jews. The emergence of youth-led protests against Jewish communal institutions’ support for Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and siege of Gaza has reconfigured American Jewish politics. Disillusionment and anger toward the Jewish establishment fueled the creation of new groups, such as IfNotNow, and revitalized older, existing groups, like Jewish Voice for Peace.
Ten months into Israel’s ongoing, devastating war in Gaza, the Jewish communal consensus is closer to a final rupture than ever before. Brought to desperate grief by Israeli human rights abuses and the oppression of the Palestinians, many leftwing Jewish activists have shifted to taking their cues from the larger and ascendant Palestine-solidarity movement, deferring to a rhetorical strategy that does not merely challenge Israeli militarism but likens Zionism to Nazism. Some American Jewish anti-Zionists have even rejected the very idea of a transnational Jewish collectivity and oppose not just the concept of Jewish peoplehood but the idea that they ought to be concerned with what Israel’s destruction would mean for Israeli Jews.
For its part, the American Jewish establishment has fallen in lockstep behind the Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, even though growing numbers of American Jews oppose this government’s conduct. Indeed, the American Jewish establishment is perhaps less representative of American Jewish life than ever. A recent survey commissioned by the Jewish Federations of North America found that 62% of American Jews say they “sometimes find it hard to support actions taken by Israel and its government”. Yet the perspective of those who are, at once, ashamed of Israel’s brutal prosecution of the war and committed to the safety and flourishing of Jewish life in Israel and the diaspora has found almost no representation within mainline institutional Jewish life.
www.theguardian.com
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comrade stalin
gaza famine is still the issue
a serious essay on what is happening to young jewish people in the US
"Israel has become the enduring source of the most intense intracommunal conflict among American Jews. The emergence of youth-led protests against Jewish communal institutions’ support for Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and siege of Gaza has reconfigured American Jewish politics. Disillusionment and anger toward the Jewish establishment fueled the creation of new groups, such as IfNotNow, and revitalized older, existing groups, like Jewish Voice for Peace.
Ten months into Israel’s ongoing, devastating war in Gaza, the Jewish communal consensus is closer to a final rupture than ever before. Brought to desperate grief by Israeli human rights abuses and the oppression of the Palestinians, many leftwing Jewish activists have shifted to taking their cues from the larger and ascendant Palestine-solidarity movement, deferring to a rhetorical strategy that does not merely challenge Israeli militarism but likens Zionism to Nazism. Some American Jewish anti-Zionists have even rejected the very idea of a transnational Jewish collectivity and oppose not just the concept of Jewish peoplehood but the idea that they ought to be concerned with what Israel’s destruction would mean for Israeli Jews.
For its part, the American Jewish establishment has fallen in lockstep behind the Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, even though growing numbers of American Jews oppose this government’s conduct. Indeed, the American Jewish establishment is perhaps less representative of American Jewish life than ever. A recent survey commissioned by the Jewish Federations of North America found that 62% of American Jews say they “sometimes find it hard to support actions taken by Israel and its government”. Yet the perspective of those who are, at once, ashamed of Israel’s brutal prosecution of the war and committed to the safety and flourishing of Jewish life in Israel and the diaspora has found almost no representation within mainline institutional Jewish life.
In my youth, Judaism and Zionism felt synonymous. Now the American Jewish consensus has collapsed
For decades, Israel served as a beacon for organized Jewish life in the US. In his new book, Joshua Leifer traces the history of the American Jewish relationship to the country – and a growing rupture
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comrade stalin
gaza famine is still the issue
