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Thread #172755   Message #4190968
Posted By: Steve Shaw
21-Oct-23 - 10:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: Hamas attacks Israel
Subject: RE: BS: Hamas attacks Israel
Many Jewish people are feeling unease about Israel's actions in Gaza. From Harriet Sherwood in the Guardian:

...In the US, there have [also] been signs of discomfort about the unfolding war among American Jews. Protesters – including 400 Jews and 25 rabbis, according to Jewish Voice for Peace – gathered to demand a ceasefire near the Capitol. “We are here to say, ‘Not in our name’,” Jay Saper told the Washington Post. “We are here as Jews – many descendants of survivors of genocide – to stop a genocide from unfolding in real time.”

In London on Thursday, several hundred people joined a protest in Parliament Square organised by Na’amod, an organisation of leftwing Jews that campaigns against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and the “crimes of apartheid”. “We will not let our grief be weaponised to justify genocide,” Na’amod wrote on X.