This week, 200 JVP Action members met with our representatives to call on Congress to stop arming Israel.
As Jews we know what genocide looks like. We know what happens when dehumanization and violence against a group become normalized.
🧵
@omdimbeyachadUK
This is unethical normalization. Do we "acknowledge" the narrative of slave traders in the Middle Passage? or critically attack that narrative? Self-respecting Jews support Palestinian freedom & don't relativize the Nakba.
Today we heard the ethical foundation of
@BernieSanders
campaign: fight for the stranger's human rights no less than for your own. That's the ethic of love.
@jjz1600
@JvpAction
This proud Jew says Shabbat Shalom to all Jews, and all persons, who know that Never Again Means All of Us. Tonight at prayers, our hearts break for the civilians of Gaza, including precious babies, targeted by the Israeli state. These are crimes under international law.
@jjz1600
In 1991, Sanders was a guest speaker in the econ anthro seminar I taught
@pitzercollege
. Subject: wage inequality. Wicked smart about pol-econ theory, clearly shaped by
@UChicago
undergrad educ. Stayed until he answered every student Q.
@pitzer_alumni
At CA Dem convention: so many Dems stop & say, "we're with you." Visibility brings out support for equality & freedom for all, with no exception for Palestinians & w. no more impunity for Israeli state abuses of Palestinians!
#JVPAction
#PalestinianFreedom
1/ Regarding the
@AmericanAnthro
vote to boycott in solidarity w. Palestinians in their struggle for freedom & equality:
(a) the vote was decisive (71%), and
(b) based on a membership turnout some 3x that for election of AAA officers; also
.
@nytimes
: "Israeli Officer Need Not Have Shot Autistic Palestinian, Commander Says..." So will the officer be charged with murder? Or does Israeli apartheid permit the murder of Palestinians? We know the answer.
#PalestinianFreedom
@jvplive
@USCPR_
@AIPAC
If its pro-apartheid and pro-ethnic cleansing, and anti-peace and anti-Palestinian,
@aipacpac
is there. AIPAC is racist hate; and it's lies about anti-semitism endanger Jews. STOP AIPAC NOW.
@IlhanMN
Word! Stay strong
@IlhanMN
, stay strong! We need you to keep on insisting that our commitment to social justice cannot end at our borders, and that Dems cannot be progressive except for foreign policy. Stay strong!
Ask
@pomonacollege
adminis: Is a PR stunt worth the risk? Will this encourage student carefulness? Did *you* ask the Faculty, who will be in classrooms w these students, when you are not?
#NoWayToRunACollege
@AAUP
Stany Hoyer is House Majority Leader & a standard centrist D. He now refuses to debate his progressivd primary component,
@MeetMckayla
. Call his campaign office at 301-464-5710 & urge him to do democracy:
#DebateMckayla
!
We've already received hundreds of signatures on the petition. Let's keep up the pressure!
Should we give him a call? The number for his campaign office is 301-464-5710.
Let him know that you think he should
#DebateMckayla
!
@ofirgendelman
Self-respecting Jews know "never again" means "never again for anyone." Self-respecting Jews support Palestinian freedom. Those who don't are a shanda! And you, sir, are a fascistic, racist hater.
The lie that criticisms of Israel are anti-Semitic has for years enabled abuse of Palestinians. Under the Trump regime, that lie is also a prop for white US nationalism. The lie is evil; the criticisms just.
#IStandwithIlhan
.
@pitzer_alumni
@PitzerAdmission
@pitzercollege
Yes, Biden *is* better than Trump, but he is not better than Biden & when Biden is bad, he is really bad. His website says Palestinians need to be held responsible "for their choices." Palestinians did not "choose" to be ethnic cleansed, Occupied, or under siege.
HISTORIC VICTORY: Today, Pitzer College closed its study abroad program w/ the University of Haifa following a 6-year-long campaign led by Claremont SJP & JVP. In doing so, Pitzer becomes the first institution of U.S. higher education to enact a major academic boycott of Israel.
Any faculty who report on striking graduate student workers are the moral equivalent of scabs & faculty elsewhere, such as myself, should pledge to tell them that & not bring them as speakers to our campuses or conferences.
Home from a long day of picketing. Good night to everyone EXCEPT the
@Harvard
faculty who are reporting on striking student workers. Instead of supporting our fight for fair wages, health care, and protections against harassment and discrimination, you've decided to betray us.
At CA Democratic convention to speak in favor of resolutions supporting human rights of Palestinians (& against double standard that protects Israeli state from accountability for apartheid & illegal occupation).
@jvplive
@AAIUSA
@USCPR_
@jjz1600
@truahrabbis
@pitzercollege
@maxstrasser
@saeen90_
@bariweiss
gives an always dishonest account of Israel and Palestine; of campus politics; same old Bari Weiss, living her delusional, hostile to others life....
Stop lying
@RitchieTorres
: the demand is to bring down an *apartheid* state. No apartheid state has a right to exist. And you lie to protect apartheid. Ending apartheid isn't sinister; it's radical love. Lying for apartheid is sinister. Please stop.
BDS is not merely a “protest.” It takes the sinister position that Israel should no longer exist as a Jewish state.
It’s an eliminationist movement at its core, one that should itself be protested by any public official professing a concern for peace.
@_waleedshahid
Can I share this thread as part of our campaign at Pitzer College to suspend our study abroad programs at Israeli universities? Would you be willing to write a short email to our College prez & relevant admins? See
2/
(c) the resolution states clearly that Israeli apartheid extends "from the River to the Sea," not just the West Bank & Gaza.
THIS is the legitimate voice of the AAA: it's a bold social justice voice.
This is a AAA to be proud of.
@PACBI
@pal_legal
@jvplive
@thehill
@ewarren
The name of the "corruption" that brought us our climate catastrophe is "capitalism," fossil-fueled capitalism. "Corruption" is a way to avoid saying the "c" word. That's why we need
@SenSanders
and democratic socialism.
@StopAntisemites
@YousefMunayyer
I'm Jewish & I know that it is crucial to understand Zionism from the perspective of its victims: Palestinians. And I know that the weaponization of concerns about antisemitism victimizes Palestinians & endangers Jews.
#SafetyThroughSolidarity
Shana tovah! May this be a new year filled with the sweetness of social justice for all, free of the bitterness of Israeli state apartheid & the oppression of Palestinians.
@MeetMckayla
Stay strong! (& fwiw, on the most recent awful/foolish bill in the House re Israel, Rep. Pressley shifted from her past votes and cast a good vote, aligned w Palestinian interests, along with Tlaib, Omar, and AOC; good for her!!)
Yes, persons of conscience must demand the Israeli state remove all restrictions on entry of medical supplies to Gaza (no more "dual use" alibi) and allow Gazan Palestinians freedom of movement needed for "social distancing."
#PalestineWillBeFree
I am so worried about
#COVID2019
coming to
#Gaza
. It’s one of the most densely populated & poorest places on earth. The Israeli blockade has even further impoverished the Palestinians of Gaza making it an open air prison camp. The disease would devastate the population.
.
@nytimes
deceives again by what it leaves out: "Israel led the world in vaccinating its population"--except for Palestinians, especially in the illegally occupied territies. For NYT, as for Zionists, Palestinians are non-persons. This is evil.
Mast: I think when we look at this, as a whole, I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of innocent Palestinian civilians. I don't think we would so lightly throw around the term innocent Nazi civilians
Grounded, nuanced analysis of the social conditions & strategic misses that have limited Sanders's capacity to gain more support from African-American voters. Social justice movements must be open to criticism; kudos
@KeeangaYamahtta
Shabbat Shalom to everyone who takes at least one action today against the Israeli military attack on Gazans. Call your congressperson. If you go to schul, make sure you say something to those you pray with. Silence is complicity.
#SocialJusticeShabbat
#PalestiniansLivesMatter
@saragoldrickrab
My name is Daniel Segal. It says so on my profile. I'm a democratic socialist who supports freedom & equality for Palestinians. I admire Elizabeth Warren's domestic policy views & chops, but think she fails to understand the dangers of US militarism. I support Bernie Sanders.
@DanielBShapiro
@PeterBeinart
Whether it is original or not could not be more irrelevant &
@PeterBeinart
cites others. & saying Palestinians & Jewish Israelis cannot make a home together is equivalent to saying white & Black US Americans must have separate homelands. That's segregationist,
@DanielBShapiro
!
#PACBIYearInReview
:
@pitzercollege
Council voted 67-28 to suspend a study abroad program in Israel over Israel's discriminatory policies.
In an unprecedented anti-democratic move, Pitzer president shamefully vetoed the motion to protect Israeli apartheid.
The errors in
@PeteButtigieg
's faux populist attack on universal social programs (public schools, for example) are well-known. So he's either *not* genuinely well educated, despite his displays of learning, or he's cynical bcs he knows better. My guess is it's a bit of both.
1/ An apex of fraudulent virtue signalling from McMaster U: The attached syllabus for a course offered by
@McMasterU
&
@TelAvivUni
has a land acknowledgment for McMaster, but no recognition that TelAvivU is on stolen, ethnic cleansed land.
@PeteButtigieg
And no place in Afghanistan also: they're human beings also. Time for
@PeteButtigieg
to study and think more about the wickedness of US militarism. Perhaps after some years of reflection on this, you'll be morally fit for public service at federal level.
@is_gustavo_a
Which Palestininians & Palestinian-Americans did you talk to first? As a pro-BDS DSAer who opposed expelling Bowman, I oppose equally or more the top-down elimination of the Palestine BDS working group. This action is not democratic or proportionate & sends the worst signal.
On Tuesday, this 61-year-old is voting for
@SenSanders
, for the sake of my grandchildren & for all the precious babies & children the world over, so they have a chance to inhabit a liveable planet and a humane world.
@billmckibben
@nytimes
@GretaThunberg
Yes & contra that op-ed, the delays created by corporate liars protecting carbon profits, enabled by mainstream political elites, was/is anything but democracy. Collective action is!
Shabbat Shalom for all. I'm inspired by the growing number of social justice Jews who know Israeli state, and its apartheid & genocide, desecrate our Jewish faith.
#LetGazaLive
#BDSNow
#SuspendPitzerHaifa
Shabbat Shalom to all who know the
@ADL
is the Apartheid Defense League, all who know Zionism is racism, all who support human rights for all humanity.
@_waleedshahid
@justicedems
This is gross.
@SenMarkey
is a true leader/teacher on GND and on nuclear weapons and power issues. The challenge is based on ego & entitlement.
@jacobkornbluh
I may vomit. Imaging thinking one believes in social justice and anti-racism but one embraces a pro-apartheid, pro-ethnic-cleansing fascistic pol. I may vomit. Self-respecting Jews support Palestinian Freedom.
@SenSchumer
@JvpAction
Of course, Ken Roth will be ok, because he is Ken Roth. But others will speak less or be silent, hindering the struggle for Palestinian freedom. The primary victims, again, are Palestinians. Zionism: it can't withstand academic freedom or human rights.
Biden is completely misleading about Bernie's
#CollegeForAll
plan.
Bernie is for 100% paid for college and 100% cancellation of student debt. No means-testing.
Read his plan:
1/2 The root cause of the violence today in Palestine-Israel is the oppression, the Israeli state oppression of Palestinians. This violence didn't begin this week or with Hamas. It's been intrinsic to the Israeli state throughout its existence as a settler colonial state.
@master_deli
@alexkotch
@ninaturner
@DemMaj4Israel
Self-respecting Jews support Palestinian freedom. Israel's racist apologists make untruthful charges of anti-semitism, harming both Palestinians & fight against actual antisemitism: if u keep on, you are aiding antisemitism. So much hate & wickedness.
@abesilbe
Centrist Dems have given us endless wars. What's the positive in returning to the old failed normal? (I'm not Palestinian. I just think human rights are for all humans, no exceptions.)
Attention must be paid. Unethical and deadly invasion of Yanomami territory is due to the entwined impact of the (i) Bolsanaro regime and (ii) global financial investors in Amazon destruction. Attention must be paid.
#SpreadSolidarity
#IndigenousLivesMatter
Sad, and revolting. A 15 years old Yanomami boy died by COVID-19. He sought medical assistance for 21 days, visiting 7 health centers. Indigenous claim that wildcat miners were the vector of the disease. More than 20,000 have illegally invaded Yanomami territory since last year.
We welcome
@amnesty
's thorough report designating Israel an apartheid regime that is oppressing the entire Palestinian people.
We urge international academic, sports and cultural institutions and associations to end links of complicity with apartheid Israel.
#DismantleApartheid
@DoctorVive
@Yale
@emorwee
Amazing! The faculty & students of Yale should demand the resignation of all who approved such a poorly reasoned & wicked statement. Yale admins/trustees inflicting reputational harm on Yale itself, while fostering planetary catastrophe.
@FossilFreeYale
@Divest5Cs
@AtScripps
@jstreetdotorg
@nytimes
Mostly good
@jstreetdotorg
, but watch the "cycle" image. It suggests responsibility by 2 parties. Palestinians did not attack Israel, except to resist settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid.