Here's a good rule to remember. Not every statement, or every action, or every tweet, encompasses everything. Mourning the loss of Israeli lives doesn't mean you don't care about Palestinians. Trying to stop the deaths of more Palestinian doesn't mean you don't care about Israel.

Sorry for the anger, but a month into this I am so sick—like nauseous sick—of people justifying or denying what Hamas did on October 7th *and* people justifying or denying what Israel has been doing in Gaza since then. Both are real and both are wrong. Deal with the facts.

Just as Palestinian leaders need to confront extremism in their society, Israel needs to show that embracing coexistence serves Palestinians' interests. In #IsraelPolicyExchange, Alex Lederman reflects on Israel’s role in strengthening Hamas. israelpolicyforum.org/2023/11/07/isr…

As Israel considers the next steps for Gaza, it must learn from its historic mistakes to empower and legitimize actors in the Palestinian arena who favor diplomacy over violence, which requires actively advancing a two-state horizon and being prepared to do so through dialogue.

Right before our encounter with IDF soldiers in the West Bank, when a Palestinian farmer tried to show us his land. Listen: npr.org/2023/11/08/121… 📷 AymanOghanna

A week later, this still holds: Terror is always wrong. Revenge is not a strategy. A child is a child is a child. Release all the hostages now. End the occupation. Without a vision for a shared future, this does not end. Our blood is the same color, and our tears taste the same.

Such a violent, tragic understanding of our history and culture. Fiddler on the Roof ends as Jews are driven from their homes, forced to leave behind everything they knew. The lesson is that ethnic cleansing is bad, not that we need be powerful enough to be on the winning side.

🚨BREAKING: Biden says the U.S. is prepared to impose sanctions on Israeli settlers who are involved in attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank. 🚨Why it matters: This is a big deal. It's the 1st time the U.S. is publicly considering individual sanctions against settlers

The Netanyahu government, or hopefully a new Israeli government, must understand that not one penny will be coming to Israel from the U.S. unless there is a fundamental change in their military and political positions. Read my statement:

When I light your candle with mine, I've lost nothing—I still have my light. This is clear to most people. I wish it was just as clear that when we empathize with the pain of others, whoever they may be, we also lose nothing. Empathy doesn't have to be a zero-sum game.

Rep. Nadler: "The resolution states that all anti-Zionism is antisemitism. That's intellectually disingenuous or factually wrong…The authors if they were at all familiar with Jewish history & culture should know about Jewish anti-Zionism that was + is expressly not antisemitic."

The House Republicans is attempting to weaponize Jewish lives for political gain. The explosion of antisemitism worldwide deserves a bipartisan, all of government approach.

Photojournalist Mustafa Harouf was threateded with live fire and was brutality beaten by Police in East Jerualem. He's been hospitalized w/ serious injuries, their severity not yet clear. There is no individual with a greater impact on today's East Jerualem than Ben Gvir.

Starvation, mass displacement, rampant disease. That is Gaza right now. During the Vietnam War, R' Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote: "Our own integrity as human beings is decaying in the agony & merciless killing done in our name." If we turn away, we risk losing our own humanity.

Downtown Takoma Park peacefulness at 6 am Capital Weather Gang

Locker room talk

“Ich bin ein Berliner.” —John F. Kennedy, June 26, 1963 “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” —Ronald Reagan, June 12, 1987 “I would encourage [the Russians] to do whatever the hell they want.” —Donald Trump, April 10, 2024

A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German

A historic and important moment 👇