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There’s Nothing Offensive About Invoking the Holocaust to Defend Human Rights
Description
A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
This week’s Zoom call will be at our regular time, Friday at 1 PM Eastern. Our guest will be Arielle Lekach-Rosenberg, lead rabbi of Shir Tikvah, a “justice-seeking, song-filled” congregation in South Minneapolis. With a background in organizing for migrant rights, she has bridged faith and activist communities locally and nationally to confront the Trump administration’s ongoing siege of Minneapolis, including by co-convening a recent gathering of over 650 clergy in the city. We’ll talk about the role of religious leaders in general— and the Jewish community in particular— in the struggle to defend human rights and the rule of law in Minneapolis.
Cited in Today’s Video
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s comparison of undocumented children in Minnesota to Anne Frank.
The attacks on Walz’s comparison by the head of the Anti-Defamation League, the Holocaust Museum in Washington and Donald Trump’s antisemitism envoy.
Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe “Boogie” Yaalon’s claim that “the ideology of ‘Jewish supremacy,’ which has become dominant in the Israeli government, reminds one of the Nazi racial theory.”
Zach Foster on the long history of Israelis comparing other Israelis to the Nazis.
Things to Read
(Maybe this should be obvious, but I link to articles and videos I find provocative and significant, not necessarily ones I entirely agree with.)
On the Jewish Currents (subscribe!) podcast, Arielle Angel talks to three organizers from Minnesota.
On February 3, I’ll be speaking at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
On February 9, I’ll be virtually speaking to Our Common Beliefs.
On February 12, I’ll speaking at the Conference on the Jewish Left at Boston University.
On Feb 24, I’ll be speaking via Zoom to the Britain Palestine Project.
On March 9, I’ll be speaking to Carolina Jews for Justice in Asheville, North Carolina. On March 10, I’ll be attending a fundraiser for Gaza in Asheville.
On March 8, Smol Emuni (the Religious Left) will hold a conference in New York.
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