Brant Rosen
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Rabbi @TzedekChicago , @jvplive . Author of “Wrestling In the Daylight: A Rabbi’s Path to Palestinian Solidarity,”
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Tony Kushner’s direct moral clarity, demolishing the hysterical word soup of 1,000 “Jewish artists and creatives”
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More than one person has asked me why I haven’t signed
@truahrabbis
recent “Rabbi’s Say End the War” in Gaza letter to President Biden. For the record, here are a few reasons why I chose not to sign it 🧵:
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While the Palestinian flag may be criminalized, banned and ripped down in Israel and other parts of the world, it sure was raised high today in downtown Chicago
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Proud to announce that the members of my congregation,
@TzedekChicago
, have just voted to adopt anti-Zionism as a core value. We'll be sending our more info about our decision very soon.
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• It thanks Biden for his “diligent work” for a ceasefire but does not demand he stop sending Israel billions of dollars of military aid, much of it without Congressional approval;
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• It refers to Palestinian “deaths.” It says Palestinians are “at risk of starvation” when they are actively being starved. It notes the “population could be decimated” as if that has not already happened;
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• It expresses gratitude to Biden for toothlessly “insisting Israel provide assurance that it is using U.S.-provided weapons in accordance with international law and is not obstructing humanitarian aid” but does not demand he stop arming Israel unless they comply;
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• It says “there is no question that Hamas has repeatedly and deliberately endangered the lives of their own people” – a claim that has only been made by the Israeli military and has not been verified by independent human rights agencies;
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• It refers to “the unimaginable suffering of a massive population of trapped civilians at the feet of Hamas,” completely eliding Israel’s imposed blockade that has kept Gazans in an open air prison for the past 17 years;
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• It does not mention that Israel’s military assault has been labeled “a plausible genocide” by the International Court of Justice;
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• It ends by asking Biden to work for a ceasefire, the bare moral minimum of what is now required in Gaza.
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• It does not mention that Israel has destroyed Gazan universities, hospitals, mosques, schools, and other cultural and historical institutions;
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• It does not mention that the Israeli military has fired on and killed scores of Palestinians seeking relief aid;
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In likely first, Chicago synagogue officially designates itself ‘anti-Zionist’ – The Forward
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I was honored to participate in a Passover delegation with 10 American rabbis and Israel activists that attempted to bring food aid to Gaza through the Erez crossing today. Let all who are hungry come and eat.
#Cease_fire_In_Gaza_Now
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@jh_swanson
Kubrick on Schindler’s List: "Think that's about the Holocaust? That was about success, wasn't it? The Holocaust is about 6 million people who get killed. Schindler's List is about 600 who don't.
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On Yom Kippur, Solidarity With Palestinians Is a Sacred Act | Truthout
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This racist, dehumanizing garbage from
@BluegrassRabbi
(Rabbi Shlomo Litvin), head of Chabad at the University of Kentucky and member of
@HumanRightsKY
. For shame.
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Happening now: hundreds of Jews and allies are blocking an intersection in dwntn Chicago calling for a
#ceasefireInGazaNOW
@jvplive
@IfNotNowOrg
@NeverAgainActn
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This just happened:
The Palestinian flag was raised high in Daley Plaza/downtown Chicago
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The honor was our’s,
@RepRashida
. We are with you, now and always ✊🏻❤️
I am so grateful for
@JVPLive
Rabbis on the Hill for standing with us in solidarity to demand a lasting ceasefire in Gaza. I am so inspired by their advocacy to save lives, no matter their faith or ethnicity, and their commitment to uplifting the human dignity of Palestinians.
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Honored to visit the DePaul U student encampment/Liberation Zone. Soon to be be leading a havdalah service together with Jews 4 Justice at DePaul
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Happening now in Chicago: Jews and allies risking arrest blocking all 8 federal building exits to say
#neveragain
#abolishice
#theworldiswatching
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On Avodah and Anna Rajagopal: Is there a place for anti-Zionist Jews in our community?
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“In less than a century, we have moved from lighting candles against a backdrop of the genocide of Jews to a world in which there are Jews lighting candles to affirm, legitimize, and celebrate a genocide that they themselves are involved in committing.”
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The Palestinian poet Hiba Abu Nada was killed in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike on October 20. This breathtaking poem was was one of the last things she wrote. May her memory be a blessing.
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Taking votes on the Liberal Zionist org to utter the A word.
@jstreetdotorg
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@NewIsraelFund
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@Hadassah
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The 'emergency regulations' that were not (yet) ratified by the Israeli parliament establish a separate legal system for Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian Territories. Palestinians living in the same territory are governed by Israeli military law.
This is Apartheid.
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“We should understand these not as acts of individual hatred or pathological psychopathy, but as political violence in furtherance of supremacist cultural and political agendas.”
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And this guy has a history of desperate, pathetic attempts to justify the unjustifiable.
@FranceskAlbs
should wear his sycophantic comment as a badge of an honor
US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller has accused UN special rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese of having "a history of antisemitic comments," dismissing her findings that there are "reasonable grounds" to believe Israel is committing "genocide" in Gaza.
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@rabbijilljacobs
Jewish orgs are a tiny fraction of the institutions on this list, which also includes Amazon, Raytheon and Harvard. This project is not about the “Jewish communal infrastructure” - it addresses complicity with US imperialism writ large.
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The argument over who fired the rocket that fell on Jabaliya is distraction. Israel provoked this war. Israel has been besieging Gaza for 15 years. Israel wields complete and total power over every single life in Gaza
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“If calling for a future in which Palestinians can live in their homeland unshackled implies an existential threat to the Zionist ideology, it is that ideology that must be called into question — not the call for liberation.”
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Happening now: hundreds of protesters are filling the streets of Chicago demanding a
#CeaseFireInGaza
now
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On Tisha B’Av 2022, Israel’s Baseless Hatred Unleashed on Gaza
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Respect to the Editorial Board of the Harvard Crimson ✊🏻
JUST IN: Harvard Crimson Editorial Board throws their weight behind Boycott, Divestment & Sanction movement!
We owe this historic decision to the Palestinian people who resist daily the settler-colonial state of Israel and inspire us all to struggle for freedom. Onwards!
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Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association endorses U.S. legislation protecting Palestinian children from Israeli military prison via
@jvplive
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“When the families of patients, medical staff and displaced persons…to retrieve their loved ones, many found bodies in fragments, flattened under bulldozer treads.
Children’s corpses were discovered burned beyond recognition.”
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The names and faces of the 16 children killed in Gaza
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As a rabbi, I agree with AOC: Trump is running concentration camps | Opinion
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As an anti-Zionist Jew I want to Mike Pompeo to know I’ll always be proud to support the movement for Palestinian rights. And that I don’t need a Christian Zionist to lecture me about antisemitism.
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Shame on the
@jdforward
- - and big shame on those in the Jewish community for hurling some pretty sick racism at
@yumcoconutmilk
for her principled, courageous stand
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Walaa Saada bore witness to the lives of Gazans. Now we must bear witness to hers
Filmmaker Walaa Saada told
@hrw
in 2022 that Palestinians "keep imagining what life would be like wo occupation" & repression, as "it's the breath of hope that allows you to keep living" here. An Israeli strike reportedly killed her on Mar 2. Listen to her
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The next time you’re tempted to cite the ADL’s “Audit of Antisemitic Incidents” as in any way authoritative, consider this:
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"If ever there was a moment for Jewish anti-Zionists to proudly stand up and be counted, this is it. And if ever there was a more terrifying demonstration of the end game of Zionism, it is Israel’s military assault on Gaza."
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If you are a US taxpayer, you are complicit in genocide
The bill Congress just passed:
–Cuts UNRWA funding
–Sends Israel another $3.8 billion
–Limits aid to the Palestinian Authority if "the Palestinians" initiate or support an International Criminal Court investigation against Israel for human rights crimes
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Settlers = soldiers
Tawfiq Hafez Tawfiq Ajaq, 17, a U.S. citizen, was killed yesterday as an Israeli settler and Israeli forces opened fire on his car in the occupied West Bank. It remains unclear whether the settler or a soldier fired the bullet that struck him in the head.
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"We haven’t put sanctions on Israel when they bomb Gaza, we don’t put sanctions on Saudi Arabia when it bombs Yemen. But if you’re a family losing a child in Ukraine or Gaza or Yemen or Iraq, it’s the same thing.”
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Honored to help lift up yesterday’s inspiring Seder in the Streets with
@kthalps
Happy Passover! I anchored the livestream of
@jvplive
Jewish Voice For Peace’s Seder in the streets protest & spoke to
@AbbyMartin
@SusanSarandon
@SDonziger
, Michael Moore
@MMFlint
, Wallace Shawn,
@RabbiBrant
Rosen!
#freepalestine
#HappyPassover
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While I appreciate the point my Jewish friends and colleagues are making about how the striking down of
#RoeVWade
is a religious rights issue, I respectfully suggest we stress that this is first and foremost a war on women and the poor, regardless of their religion
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“Beyond this one decision,
@TzedekChicago
is committed to continuing this important and sacred conversation together as a community - and how we might create and live out a Judaism beyond Zionism.”
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“Witness accounts, satellite data and expert assessment gathered by NPR show that Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire occur daily in the areas Israel said are ‘safer’ for civilians, and have hit schools, residential towers and overcrowded UN shelters
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“This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, let us find the courage to speak the words that must be spoken. Ceasefire now. Never again, for anyone. No more genocide.”
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Green Party Women's Caucus demands passage of House bill upholding human rights for Palestinian minors and inte via
@GreenPartyUS
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Who knew twitter could actually be a sacred place? Sending✊🏻 to all who are testifying their love at
#MyPalestinianSitty
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Tisha B’Av vigil at the Kankakee, IL Detention Center, a coalition of Jewish, interfaith and immigrant justice groups gathered to protest the profound brokenness in our national community. Over 230 prayed, sang, heard testimonies, called to action.
#CloseTheCamps
#AbolishICE
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The toxic hatred and racism leveled at Jews of Color in our community must be stood down. Now. Sending my love and solidarity to Rebecca Pierce, Nylah Burton and Julia Salazar
@aptly_engineerd
@yumcoconutmilk
@JuliaCarmel__
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Says Engel's replacement: "Our taxpayer dollars should not be going toward subsidizing settlement expansion, home demolitions, the detention of Palestinian children, or in any way supporting the threatened Israeli “annexation” of the West Bank."
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“I completely understand the outrage of Zionist Jews by such a suggestion. But as an anti-Zionist Jew, I will never yield an inch to the misguided, cynical suggestion that opposition to Zionism is tantamount to opposition to Judaism itself.”
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Shame on the
@simonweisenthal
center for its sickening (but not surprising) slander of
@4noura
Erakat. Zionism is not Judaism - and it is certainly not "Jew hatred" to say so.
Dont you have legal counsel on staff? This is outright defamation. My lecture is available on
@BrownUniversity
’s CMES website. Yes I take issue w Zionism and say it is an intellectual and political bedfellow of apartheid based on drafting history of UNGA Res 3379. Read something.
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Breaking: Chicago Jews disrupting Jewish Federation "We Stand with Israel" benefit!
#Chi4Gaza
@jvplive
@ChicagoJVP
http://t.co/Lsr6Qdk0SI
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Are you also a progressive Jew who proudly stands by
@RepRashida
and knows that real progressives oppose apartheid and support Palestinian freedom? Add your name!
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A clear demonstration of how “dropping crumbs” of relief on a starved, besieged population only endangers them all the more. Without any mechanism for distribution (that is, UNRWA), these aid drops amount to nothing but irresponsible, face-saving gestures
Twelve Palestinians lost their lives yesterday while attempting to retrieve air-dropped assistance, some of which fell into the Mediterranean Sea. Some victims drowned while trying to reach the aid; others met their end entangled in the ropes of parachutes. Imagine enduring
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An unprecedented collaboration of 80 rabbis, across denominations and political affiliations, has just issued a video statement to the larger Jewish community and elected U.S.representatives calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
#ceasefirenow
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@rabbijilljacobs
With respect, Jill, Ben’s post is not about polling or Jewish communal surveys or the two state solution. He is addressing something much deeper and much, much more profound. Let go of your talking points for just a moment and let that sink in
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My plea to Chuck Schumer
- Learn some humility
- Reject the urge to speak for all Jews
- Understand that the Jewish community is not monolithic
My plea to all Americans:
—Learn the history of the Jewish people
—Reject the antisemitic double standard being applied to the plight of Jewish victims
—Understand that we defend Israel’s existence as we fear a world where the place of refuge for Jewish people no longer exists
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Anyone who supported the embassy move to Jerusalem has blood on their hands today. And Jewish leaders who do not condemn this slaughter have lost whatever moral standing they have left.
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Shattering. And FIFAcom has said nothing
I have watched this video of Palestinian football star Mohammed Barakat's final words 5 times. He is calm despite the bombs that get ever closer until they kill him. One of the most haunting things I've ever seen. "This is where I end." Loving to the end.
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Happening now in Chicago: Jews and allies shutting down the entrance to the offices of
#SenatorDurbin
and
#Tammyduckworth
to demand they
#ClosetheCamps
#NeverAgainAction
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Happening now: thousands march to ICE through in the streets of Chicago to demand
#closethecamps
#stopdeportations
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@JGreenblattADL
says Anti-Zionism is “predicated on the negation of another people.” No, actually it’s predicated on its refusal to support the creation of an ethno-state on the backs of another people
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Marching with my community to ICE HQ in Chicago bc
#NeverAgainisNow
and our people won’t stand idly by
#JewsAgainstICE
#ClosetheCamps
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This is unbearable. Who can comprehend such cruelty?
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32 activists risking arrest right now at Dearborn and Jackson blocking all 8 federal building exits to say
#neveragain
#abolishice
#theworldiswatching
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Read this. Every word. Now you know. What will you say years from when you’re asked what you did in this moment?
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Give me your tired, your poor, your blah, blah, blah
Vice President Harris says in Guatemala: "I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come. The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border."
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126 Artists Demand “Full Accountability” of Shireen Abu Akleh Killing – The Hollywood Reporter
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“In Gaza, Israel is Revealing the True Face of Zionism” — A Statement from the Leadership of Tzedek Chicago
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Last week, the
@chicagotribune
published an apoplectic editorial excoriating
@Brandon4Chicago
for his brave tie-breaking vote on the ceasefire resolution while disingenuously treating
@debra4the50th
as the voice for all Chicago Jews. Here's my response:
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@YousefMunayyer
: “Whatever the outcome of these protests, a state that considers equality an existential threat can never be a democracy. The reason Palestinians are not participating is because we have known this all along.”
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Sending my love to the Jewish community of Monsey and greater Jewish community of NYC, who have endured antisemitic violence every night of Hanukkah this past week... 1/4
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Thank you, Rep. McCollum for your leadership on behalf of Palestinian children!
#4WeeksofThanks
#NoWayToTreatAChild
http://t.co/GEsqMUcWvK
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@EdgeofSports
: “In the United States, this is called the “great replacement” theory. In Israel, people refer to “demographic time bombs.” In both cases, these calls to fear are also a call to violence.”
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Re
@TzedekChicago
’s affirmation of anti-Zionism as a core value: I’m heartened that beyond the ad hominem attacks of toxic trolls and the defensive dismissals of Israel supporters, a large % of folks have engaged thoughtfully w/us on the subject, even if they personally disagree
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