“This week, large-scale protests in support of Palestinian rights have unfolded across the United States and around the world. An overdue narrative shift is occurring across broad sectors of U.S. society, including within the American Jewish community, as more leaders and individuals are gaining the confidence to name that the deadly bombing of Gaza by the far-right Israeli government, violent clashes between Israeli Jewish and Palestinian vigilante mobs in cities across Israel, and other flashpoints in Israel/Palestine is a result of decades of Israeli occupation, apartheid, and dispossession of the Palestinian people, and to take action against US support for these injustices. Until these fundamental injustices are addressed at their root, a meaningful, lasting and just peace in Israel/Palestine will not be achieved.
At the same time, an uptick in antisemitic incidents in the US and around the world has generated fear across Jewish communities. Demonstrators have assaulted Jewish patrons at a restaurant in Los Angeles, thrown an explosive firework in the heavily Orthodox Diamond District in New York City, yelled antisemitic slurs in a Jewish neighbohood in London, and more, while synagogues were vandalized in Skokie, Illinois and Tucson, Arizona in the same week.”
Ben Lorber 
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