Jews organizing toward Palestinian liberation and Judaism beyond Zionism
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Zionism, in the words of its 19th century European founders, is an explicitly “colonial” political ideology that claims Jewish safety from antisemitic persecution requires a Jewish-only nation-state. 
Rabbi Rosen writes, “As the Jewish community prepares to observe Passover this year, I’m thinking a great deal about the centrality of children to the Exodus story we tell around the seder table. In particular, I’m struck that this narrative from the Torah begins with a terrifying description of atrocities committed against children. Among other things, the Exodus story drives home the tragically familiar truth that children are not mere casualties of wartime atrocities, but are actually targeted by state violence.
We are outside Federal Plaza to say: Stop arming Israel. End Israel's genocide in Gaza. Free political prisoners held by ICE. Stop the attacks on immigrants, trans people, and students.
On October 17 2023, @GhassanAbuSitt1 delivered a press conference following a massacre by the Israeli military in the courtyard of Al-Ahli hospital that killed over 471 Palestinians.
No food, water, fuel, or aid has entered in over a month, and conditions worsen each day, as Palestinians are pushed into smaller and smaller areas within Gaza.
This year is unlike any other. We cannot feast while there is famine. This Passover, we gather not to celebrate, but to demand and dream of liberation for all.
Right now, the Israeli military is carpet-bombing Gaza and using starvation as a weapon of war as it continues to kill Palestinians with impunity. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is attacking our movements, detaining and abducting those who have spoken out for Palestinian rights.
During the Deir Yassin massacre, militias that would soon become the Israeli military rounded up men, women, and children before executing them. By the end of the massacre, the militias had killed or forced out the town’s entire population. During the Nakba, Israel forced more than 75% of the Palestinian population from their homes and land.
Last week, war criminal and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu promised the Israeli military would expand its genocidal assault to achieve the Israeli military’s “permanent maintenance of the territory [of Gaza],” a pledge of mass death, expulsion and total land theft.
The @PalestineRCS recovered the bodies of eight medics, six civil defense workers, and one UN employee, all killed when the Israeli military opened fire on them in Rafah while they were en route to provide first aid. A spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza said that each retrieved body was riddled with around 20 gunshots from the Israeli military. A ninth PCRS medic is still missing.
The JVP Academic Advisory Council’s report on Project Esther argues that, “The architects of Project Esther aren't interested in fighting antisemitism, even in this moment of rising white nationalism – instead, they're building a machine to crush dissent by any means necessary.”
Yesterday, we watched in horror and disgust as newly released footage showed masked ICE agents surrounding a terrified Rumeysa, a PhD student at Tufts University, handcuffing her on the street and taking her away.
Last week, the Israeli military invaded Rafah and retook the Netzarim Corridor, dividing Gaza and further displacing Palestinians, massacring fleeing families, and targeting the injured. Evacuation notices and so-called humanitarian zones mask further Israeli bombardment. Yesterday, Israeli warplanes bombed Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, killing at least five Palestinians and injuring many more.
Sexual, reproductive, and gender-based violence occurs in almost all wars and genocides, and Gaza is no exception. Torture and humiliation is a tool of repressive regimes to punish and try to destroy the spirit of anyone who challenges their oppression. A new report from the UN titled “More Than a Human Can Bear” shares harrowing accounts of sexual, reproductive, and other forms of gender-based violence committed by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since October 2023.