Part of the Jewish Voice for Peace delegation at the 221st Presbyterian General Assembly in Detroit who worked in solidarity with Presbyterian groups on divestment from companies profiting off the Israeli occupation.- cec
By Steve France, Jewish Voices for Peace
Dear Christians:
Suppose that you were a guest at a Passover Seder and you dared to bring up Israeli treatment of the Palestinians . . . and your host turned to you and said, “Thanks, for raising that. We really have trouble reclaiming our Judaism from the old Zionist narrative.” Unthinkable? Not as much as it used to be.
It might seem easier than ever to say the wrong thing about Israel-Palestine, at least as measured by, say, the U.S. Congress. A new definition of anti-Semitism popular in Congress says that criticism of the “Jewish State” is anti-Semitic. But 40 highly qualified American Jews recently provided passionate, personal testimony against that view. Their written statements are collected in a new book titled Reclaiming Judaism From Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation, edited by Carolyn L. Karcher, that documents radical changes in American Jewish attitudes toward Israel and its foundational Zionist ideology.
Dear Christians:
Suppose that you were a guest at a Passover Seder and you dared to bring up Israeli treatment of the Palestinians . . . and your host turned to you and said, “Thanks, for raising that. We really have trouble reclaiming our Judaism from the old Zionist narrative.” Unthinkable? Not as much as it used to be.
It might seem easier than ever to say the wrong thing about Israel-Palestine, at least as measured by, say, the U.S. Congress. A new definition of anti-Semitism popular in Congress says that criticism of the “Jewish State” is anti-Semitic. But 40 highly qualified American Jews recently provided passionate, personal testimony against that view. Their written statements are collected in a new book titled Reclaiming Judaism From Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation, edited by Carolyn L. Karcher, that documents radical changes in American Jewish attitudes toward Israel and its foundational Zionist ideology.
