Published: 26 April 2016
Last updated: 4 March 2024
“Why does Beinart paint Jewish pro-BDS millennials like me as detached from Jewish communal life and identity? Maybe he wants to portray liberal Zionists like Simone Zimmerman as the ‘good Jews’ who still care about the Jewish people, and so, as a foil, he needs to characterise us as the ‘non-Jewish Jews’ who don’t. But not only is that inaccurate and offensive, it makes a mockery of the very values of inclusion he claims to cherish and admire. We fight for BDS precisely because we care deeply about the future of the Jewish people.”
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For Peter Beinart’s article see: Don’t punish Zionism’s truth-seeking millennials April 24, 2016
And see: 23 young Jews arrested in anti-occupation protests across US - Edo Konrad - +972 Magazine 24.04.16
Hundreds hold ‘Liberation Seders’ outside (and inside) major Jewish American institutions in five major cities, demanding that the Jewish community take a stand against Israel’s occupation.
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