Mondoweiss

Ahmed Moor writes: "Jewish people who are critical of Israel are right to question what Israel means to them as Jews. “Not in my name” is a solid basis for taking issue with the often-criminal behavior of the Zionist Israeli government. But it is not enough to eventually heal the rift between the Jewish and Palestini...an peoples. A purely Jewish focus on a more-than-Jewish problem causes many leftist Jews to take a paternalistic view of Palestinians. Rather
than equals whose inalienable rights form the crux of the case against
Zionism, the Palestinians are the clay of Jewish humanism, waiting to
be fully actualized by thoughtful and reflective Jewish hands. Instead
of insisting that Palestinians are human beings whose existence is the
repudiation of Zionism, some Jews on the left argue that Zionism
violates Jewish ethics. I am not suggesting
that the two streams of thought are mutually exclusive, only that the
focus on one may inhibit the realization of the other."Read more

Noam Chomsky, Rashid Khalidi, George Bisharat and others tell President
Obama - "If you are serious about forging peace, then we call
on you to defend the right of Mohammad and all Palestinians to resist
their oppression through non-violent activism. We implore you to
pressure Israel for the immediate release of human righ...ts advocate
Mohammad Othman and all prisoners of conscience who are being held
solely for their work towards justice and freedom."Read more