"Do so after you’ve invited someone whose family is now in Lebanon or in Iran under these bombs falling on them. Listen to what they’ve gone through, and then ask yourself, is this the best message that we can advertise to the world?"

#Jews #Israel #zionism #antisemitism #synagogues #Gaza #Iran #Lebanon #Torah
/4

(continued from /2)

"B’Tselem, and the International Association of Genocide Scholars, it seems to me you are contributing to a diminution, a denigration of our moral, ethical refinement.

If a synagogue wants to have a conversation about whether it’s moral to have this sign, ‘We stand with Israel,’ on its lawn right now, I would suggest do so after you have invited someone from Gaza to speak to you."

#Jews #Israel #zionism #antisemitism #synagogues #Gaza #Iran #Lebanon #Torah
/3

"And now, now we see not only that that form of idolatry is making American Jews less safe, but it’s sapping the fundamental, moral core of what these synagogues are supposed to be about. ...

When you put out a sign that says, and keep it there, ‘We stand with Israel,’ even after something that has been called a genocide by Israel’s own leading human rights organization," (continued in /3)

#Jews #Israel #zionism #antisemitism #synagogues #Gaza #Iran #Lebanon #Torah
/2

"Synagogues in the United States should take down the signs that many have on their lawn that say, ‘We stand with Israel.’ They should take them down, because those signs make the congregants less safe, and because they are immoral. ...

Torah has been eclipsed by the idolatry of the worship of the state."

~ Peter Beinart

#Jews #Israel #zionism #antisemitism #synagogues #Gaza #Iran #Lebanon #Torah
/1

peterbeinart.substack.com/p/le…

Thoughts on the Michigan Synagogue Attack

About Jewish safety and Jewish morality

^{Ken Silverman (The Beinart Notebook)}

"The very organizations which were created to protect Jewish people and to combat antisemitism—the ADL, the AJC—are instead doubling and tripling down on essentializing Jewish identity and linking it to a violent ethnonationalist regime and its list of horrors."

#Jews #zionism #Netanyahu #Bibi #Gaza #Iran #antisemitism #ADL #AJC
/4

(continued from /2)

"and they are told that this is done in the name of Jewish identity, because any objection to Israel policy is supposedly antisemitic.

Now Jewish orgs are insisting, through bogus polls, that Jewish identity legitimizes the war—blind or indifferent to the ways in which this will, instead, delegitimize Jewish identity itself."

#Jews #zionism #Netanyahu #Bibi #Gaza #Iran #antisemitism
/3

"Israel and Zionist orgs in the US have effectively been releasing huge amounts of antisemitic propaganda, linking Jews to the action of a violent nation state and its policies of sweeping censorship, apartheid, genocide, and war. When people protest a genocide, they are beaten, arrested, and threatened with deportation—" (continued in /3)

#Jews #zionism #Netanyahu #Bibi #Gaza #Iran #antisemitism
/2

"Netanyahu’s cynical deployment of diaspora Jews as a human shield for Israel’s bad actions is neither new nor surprising. Zionists have for decades claimed that Israel is the core of Jewish identity, and that, therefore, criticism or resistance to Israel national policy is equivalent to antisemitism."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Jews #zionism #Netanyahu #Bibi #Gaza #Iran #antisemitism
/1

everythingishorrible.net/p/zio…

Zionist Institutions Spread Antisemitic Propaganda

Linking Jewish identity to war and atrocity harms Jewish people

^{Noah Berlatsky (Everything Is Horrible)}