Jewish liberation as park of Palestinian liberation
The creation of the state of Israel has changed the nature of the Jewish world. The Holocaust caused the heart of the Jewish world to be torn out; the non-Zionist streams in the Diaspora were destroyed. It seemed to many that Palestine provided the only hope for Jews. As a result, in the 125 years of Zionist settlement in Palestine, a new people has emerged – Israeli Jews most of whom are native born. As part of that and an ideology of ein briera – no alternative for Jewish survival other than this highly militarized state has been forced on both Israeli Jews and Jews in the Diaspora, with the latter being instructed to be nothing more than a cheering section for whatever the current Israeli government wants to do.
In Israel this means that a large majority of the youth serve as soldiers in the Israeli military. In the Diaspora the Israeli government, through its influence on major Jewish institutions in the United States including most of the synagogues, enforces a strict ideological control in Jewish basis.
As part of the liberation for all people from the river to the sea, which understands Israeli Jews are not going anywhere, the Jewish liberation from this ideological straitjacket of militarism and oppression of the Palestinians will free the Jewish youth from conscription into an occupation army and will liberate the Diaspora Jews from the ideological straitjacket of Zionism.
Video Resources
My Tree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8aOk_zONRg
My Tree follows Jason Sherman’s journey to find the tree that was planted in his name in Israel many years earlier. When he discovers that it stands on the remains of a Palestinian village that was destroyed in 1967, he embarks on another journey — to determine his responsibility in helping to cover up the destruction.
Jews across the world say “End the Genocide”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPBNOKVxqJI
Jewish groups in sixteen nations, who come together under the banner ‘Global Jews for Palestine’ (GJ4L), have published a short but powerful video calling for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its occupation of Palestine, together with a set of ‘contemplations’ for the Jewish High Holy Days that take place between today’s Jewish New Year (Rosh haShanah) and the coming Yom Kippur, or day of atonement.
Israeli Teenager Evacuated From Hamas Attack Demands Israel Stop Bombing: https://youtu.be/c74Zdvpt5xc?si=p5WHXMOBw-mPM9z-
In this video shared on twitter by Orly Barlev, a 19-year-old Israeli woman who survived the Hamas attack on kibbutz Be’eri recounts what she went through, blames Netanyahu for not seeking a “political solution,” shames people calling for “revenge,” and urges Israel to stop the bombing.