“He is making Jews the face of the American war machine. And that is so deeply wrong,”

Maybe you've noticed Tucker Carlson suddenly speaking up for Palestinians and wondered what's up. There's no one better than Ben Lorber to lay out the terrain of the far right's recent splits over Israel and their implications for the left: jewishcurrents.org/the-rights-ant…

Last week Department of State said Israel wasn't restricting aid. Today, an Israeli mob beat a Palestinian truck driver they thought was carrying food to starving Palestinians in Gaza, then they destroyed the goods on the truck, then they celebrated on the truck bed as soldiers watched.

The detention and interrogation of internationally renowned Israeli anti Zionist historian Ilan Pappe at Detroit airport by the FBI is latest in the long list of episodes of intimidation and bullying across the West to defend the indefensible—the Israeli genocide of Palestinians.

Today, I became the first Jewish-American political appointee to resign from the Biden-Harris administration over its policies in Gaza. Here is my resignation letter:

And here's another one from a group of students involved with J Street U, Hillel, Chabad, and the Jewish Student Union at the University of Oregon, supporting the protest encampment in the spirit of 'machloket,' which they describe as constructive conflict.

Israel’s Zone of Interest.

Taken by my colleague Oren Ziv today on the periphery of a protest calling to re-establish Jewish settlements in Gaza.

The “Biden is withholding arms from Israel” was purely a PR scheme by the White House in order to make it seem as though Biden & his administration are giving any kind of resistance to their partner in genocide.

And the US media, like good stenographers, ate it up & spread it.

'If you can protest the sinful conduct of your town and fail do so, you are responsible for the sins of your town. If you can protest the sinful conduct of the whole world and fail to do so, you are responsible for the sins of the whole world.” (BT Shabbat 54b)

God bless and

“Racism is a philosophy based on a contempt for life.”

“At some point—whatever the justification—you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not. I know that I did, in my small way, wittingly advance that policy.”

The 'send in the national guard' against kids protesting genocide on college campuses crowd seem to be eerily silent on this destruction of property deliberately aimed at starving people.

I wrote this piece because I found myself scared by what this bill implies about American Jewish identity, and how it presumes Zionism to be a fundamental component to Jewishness.

Our Senators should stop it from becoming law.

thehill.com/opinion/congre…

Antisemitism, Then and Now: A Guide for the Perplexed thenation.com/article/societ…

I can't believe how much worse it is getting in Gaza right now, while our leaders say nothing and do nothing to stop Israel's war of annihilation. I'm terrified for my friends and their families. Calling for a ceasefire isn't nearly enough, there must be action immediately.

I’m translating an interview of a Palestinian man who was held in an Israeli detention camp and it is horrifying. He says a man’s beard was plucked with pliers; 1 of the torture methods was playing loud music for 24 hours; they starved them, women were stripped of their clothes.

By the way, while you read this piece, ask yourself what was so scary about it that it was killed by NYTimes Opinion after a round of edits.

We will never forget. The attack on Shireen’s funeral is forever etched in our collective memory.

What I hope for these students is that they stop accusing their Jewish peers of tokenizing themselves. I hope they realize that theirs is but one of many views and why that is.

nytimes.com/2024/05/09/nyr…