Tag: Jews for Peace

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A New Jewishness Is Being Born Before Our Eyes – ScheerPost

Last Friday evening, amid the national panic over the campus protests in solidarity with Gaza, I met fellow Jews in downtown Los Angeles to welcome Shabbat. Candles, grape juice, and challah shared space with “CEASEFIRE NOW” signs on a folding table. We heard speeches and joined together in song and prayer as the sun dipped behind the Department of Water and Power Building and the wind blew through.

Our mystics teach us that the 25 hours of the Sabbath offer a taste of “the world to come”—a holier world, one outside capitalist logic and capitalist time. The precise nature of this world is up for interpretation. Traditional sources understand it as an afterlife, where the righteous get their reward, while the political visionaries among us take “the world to come” to mean a future, better version of the world we already live in.

Source: A New Jewishness Is Being Born Before Our Eyes – ScheerPost

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Jewish Groups Decry House Passage of Bill Defining Criticism of Israel as ‘Antisemitism’ – ScheerPost

Jewish Voice for Peace Action slammed what it called IHRA’s “controversial and dangerous mis-definition that does not help fight real antisemitism and is only a tool for silencing the movement for Palestinian rights.”

Source: Jewish Groups Decry House Passage of Bill Defining Criticism of Israel as ‘Antisemitism’ – ScheerPost

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Anti-Defamation League Maps Jewish Peace Rallies With Antisemitic Attacks

While Peter Dutton Pumps up Anti-Genocide as Anti-Semitism Jews around the world and in Israel are demonstrating for peace. Polls in Israel show 70% of Israelis want Netanyahu sacked.

several thousand Jews and their allies shut down the main terminal of Grand Central Station during rush hour in New York City, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. Organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, the activists at the peaceful sit-in wore black T-shirts that read “Not In Our Name.” “It’s the largest sit-in protest the city has seen in over two decades,” Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman said. About 400 people were arrested, including rabbis.

American Jews have mobilized several thousand Jews across the U.S. to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. ADL calls these Jewish organizations “hate groups.”

Source: Anti-Defamation League Maps Jewish Peace Rallies With Antisemitic Attacks

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The Gaza Protests Can Save Lives — Maybe Even Your Own

BERLIN, GERMANY - MARCH 29: Anti-war protesters march from the Brandenburg Gate to the Victory Column March 29, 2003 in Berlin, Germany. Over 50,000 people took to the streets in Berlin in a peaceful protest against the U.S.-led war in Iraq. (Photo by Kurt Vinion/Getty Images)

Today, the same is even more true for the large, impressive protests about Gaza led specifically by Jewish Americans. There have also been smaller protests in Israel calling for a ceasefire.

Source: The Gaza Protests Can Save Lives — Maybe Even Your Own

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Israel must protect Gazans, end settler violence: US

Gaza City

Biden demands a “Humanitarian Pause”? America seems to have listened to Albo and calls for a “Humanitarian Pause” admitting to an overreach in revenge death and destruction by Israel. Dutton’s left alone squawking on 2GB about loyalty and allies when even Israelis and Jews worldwide are calling for a ceasefire. Dutton has been left an isolated comic character out of Dr Strangelove

They heard what Peter Dutton said and gave him the finger. Peter Dutton is the only one Anglo- ally Israel has left and he’s not a country just a…..

The White House says Israel has a responsibility to protect civilians in Gaza and must “rein in” Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

Source: Israel must protect Gazans, end settler violence: US