ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL JANUARY 28, 2024 6:45 AM In his new book, “Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978,” Geoffrey Levin writes about an early, formative era when American Jewish leaders disagreed with the Israeli government over the fate of the 750,000 Palestinians displaced by Israel’s war for independence.
(JTA) — In the four months since the Hamas attacks on Israel touched off war in Gaza, Jewish protesters have joined demonstrations in the streets of New York, San Francisco and other cities condemning Israel and demanding an immediate ceasefire. But Jewish calls for a ceasefire haven’t only come from the far-left Jewish groups that often lead the rallies. In December, hundreds of staffers for 140 mainly progressive Jewish organizations signed a letter urging President Biden to press Israel for a ceasefire. Other Jewish leaders, including hundreds of rabbis, pushed back, signing a letter saying, “There is not broad support within the Jewish community for a ceasefire. Not now.” These kinds of intra-communal clashes have been a signature of the Israel-Hamas war, leading to think pieces that talk of unprecedented divides within the Jewish community and of a generation of young Jews who reject what they say is a reflexively pro-Israel stance by the Jewish mainstream that doesn’t take Palestinian lives into consideration. (continued) https://www.jta.org/2024/01/28/ideas/when-nice-jewish-boys-and-girls-first-took-up-the-cause-of-palestinian-rights?utm_source=NYJW_JTA_Maropost&utm_campaign=NYJW_JTA_Sunday_Ideas&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-67703-32430 -- Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia. edu/JimFarmelant ( http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant ) http://www.foxymath.com ( http://www.foxymath.com/ ) Learn or Review Basic Math -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#28652): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/28652 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104010882/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
