Just got this in the inbox. The vigil is tomorrow August 12, from 6-7 PM, at the Jewish Community Center building at 75th and Amsterdam.
A SILENT VIGIL IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE
PALESTINIAN PEOPLE OF GAZAWHY ARE WE GATHERING:
Shamefully, “over 50 Israeli-associated New York organizations” will be gathering then at the JCC on the UWS of Manhattan to “commemorate Israeli soldiers and civilians who lost their lives during ‘Operation Protective Edge,”‘ the bombing campaign of Gaza, without one mention of Palestinian lives lost.
We are appalled at this blatant valuing of Jewish and Jewish Israeli lives over the nearly 2,000 Palestinians, including hundreds of children, who have been massacred by the Israeli army. To express our opposition to a perverse ethic that values only Jewish lives and ignores Israeli war crimes, the siege of Gaza, and an ongoing brutal occupation, please join us in a silent vigil across from the JCC.
WHAT WE WANT TO DO:
We want to create a silent presence that says loudly and clearly, with our signs and banners and names of Palestinian dead, that many Jews and others on New York’s upper west side stand in solidarity with our Palestinian sisters and brothers and staunchly oppose a politics of ‘Israel right or wrong.’
co-sponsored by: Jewish Voice for Peace-NYC, Jewish Voice for Peace–Westchester, Jews Say No!, Women in Black-NY
Very True, “what Jewish Law Permits killings of so many people” What is deeply appalling is Zionist hide behind Judaism and the Jewish name when the two are a completely different beliefs. Zionism was created by a delusional man who did not even believe in God, 117 years ago. Where Jewish Laws were created and handed down to the Jews by Prophet Moses via God, thousands of years ago. To God we all shall return and be judged, but I am certain for one thing, anyone who put a side Gods laws and followed man made, is certainly not going to get a pass free from punishment or hell. This goes for all people in different faiths as well.
For the Israeli Left , religious freedom is the answer to Gaza. The kind of religious freedom which outlaws Islamic political movements, but not Jewish ones, because, after all, even if they are arguably ‘people’, they are not like ‘us’. They rejoice in their own dead children; they are aliens, ‘from another world.’
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We function on the assumption that Hamas is made up of people like us. This is only partialy true. They are people, but they are not like us. They are people who pretended they were fighting for independence and when they were given the opportunity to rule themselves in Gaza, all they cared about was carrying on the fight. They are people who received billions of dollars that could have been used to make Gaza a flourishing port in the Middle East and instead spent it on thousands of rockets and terror tunnels. They are people who seem bouyed by our dead as well as their own, especially the children, and view casualties as fuel for the fire of the Islamic Revolution. So to be clear: They are from another world and another era — a world and an era that has no value for the sanctity of life.
Any peace process will have to gurantee that an Islamic movement never, ever, rises to power on our border. Yes, it is not easy to accept that our enemies are so problematic. But one does not choose his enemies.
Shachar Ilan is vice president of the “Hiddush Association For Religious Freedom and Equality”. The opinion piece is not written on behalf of the association.
http://www.i24news.tv/en/opinion/39905-140811-it-s-time-to-acknowledge-that-the-disengagement-from-gaza-failed
‘Zionism was created by a delusional man” obviously refers to Herzl. Leaving aside the question of delusion, though Herzl’s contribution should not be underestimated, neither should he be credited with creating Zionism. Zionism existed before him. True, as a movement if herzl had never been born, it would probably have failed to procure the Balfour Declaration without the boost of organization and propaganda and motivation provided by the efforts of Herzl. But it existed before Herzl.
Yet another “Jewish debate”, public relations and implicit accusations of anti-semitism for the gentiles. Take these people seriously when they lead a public movement against the Jewish establishment.
“Take these people seriously when they lead a public movement against the Jewish establishment.”
You mean other than the public movement they are leading by standing in public against the Jewish establishment which is meeting as the official Jewish establishment detailed above?