U.S. Jewish support for the civil rights struggle has sometimes been patronizing to blacks; and the growing identification of Jews with a state perceived as colonial and racist, Israel, has often strained the bonds of the relationship, as exemplified by the anger over the Black Lives Matter platform’s support for the Palestinian struggle.
Led by Jews of color and their allies, and by the organization Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, nearly 300 marchers calling for greater police accountability wound their way through downtown New York on Thursday night, ending in the arrest of seven activists for civil disobedience.
This weekend the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) overwhelmingly approved two resolutions calling on the U.S. government to end all financial and military aid to Israel until Israel “compl[ies] with internationally recognized human rights standards”, freezes settlement construction on occupied Palestinian land, and for the church to adopt an investment screen to avoid profiting from Israel’s Occupation, at ELCA’s triennial 2016 Churchwide Assembly in New Orleans.
Forward editor Jane Eisner said it was a “pleasure to host” Israeli consul general Dani Dayan yesterday, though he lives in an illegal settlement in occupied land and formerly was the chief spokesman for the settler movement.
Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign bus ad in San Francisco uses slogan Stop Anti-Boycott Legislation and features a list of previous social justice boycotts, including boycotts against British tea in 1773, segregated buses in Montgomery in 1956, and South African apartheid from 1959 to 1994.
LA Jews for Peace does not believe that the Movement for Black Lives Platform’s incorrect use of the term “genocide” negates an otherwise powerful statement for social, racial, political, and economic justice enunciated in the Platform’s other 37,000 words. That is why LA Jews for Peace proudly endorses the Platform of the Movement for Black Lives.
Mousa Mohammad Salmna, an 85-year-old Palestinian shepherd, and the donkey he was riding died on Wednesday after they were run over by an Israeli settler driving a motorcycle near Nablus. Palestinian security sources told Ma‘an News Agency that an investigation was opened to determine if the incident had been a deliberate attack or an accident.
Mr. Netanyahu, I have a question: How long will “the world”, who unlike you believes the Palestinians are human beings like the rest of us, continue to just look on as you talk the talk and walk the walk of the most dangerous demagogues in history? A meditation on Netanyahu’s video dehumanizing Ayoub Sroor, a helpless Palestinian father in the occupation.
Katie Miranda takes us through the lifecycle of a Donald Trump news story.
Endorsing Hillary Clinton, former CIA exec Mike Morell has called for killing Russians and Iranians in Syria, while Dennis Ross, auditioning for a Clinton position, calls for bombing Syria. Trump is collapsing, and the foreign policy establishment wants to revive the Cold War.