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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 1d

Just another piece of evidence that the US's unilateral support of Israel no matter what crimes against humanity it commits has nothing to do with protecting Jews.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.

EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel

The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

And may we, as our communities gather in sukkot everywhere, commit to a world in which all people may take comfort in the protection of sukkat shlomecha – the eternal shelter of holy peace. May it be so.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

May we have the courage to mourn deeply, to see clearly, and to choose differently. May our grief call us to action.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

Because we know this to be true:

Jews, whether they live between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, or anywhere else in the world, cannot be safe if Palestinians are not safe and free.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

We grieve all who have been killed. We cry out for all who remain trapped in systems of violence and fear. And we commit to one another: to building a future in which no community's safety comes at the expense of another's freedom.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

Our hearts are big enough, and our tears abundant enough, to grieve for every life lost, every universe destroyed, and every human being captured on October 7, 2023, and in the devastating two years that have followed.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

We can still say “Not another bomb.” We can demand an end to our own government’s complicity, the transfers of weapons and funding that sustain this machinery of death. We can insist that our grief not be used to justify more violence, that it instead fuels our commitment to stop it.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

A future rooted in freedom, democracy, and equal rights for all, for every Israeli and Palestinian, from the river to the sea. A future free from the decades-long status quo of occupation and apartheid.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

We can still commit ourselves to building a future where another October 7 is unthinkable, not because of walls or bombs, but because we have finally built a foundation of justice.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

It didn’t have to be this way. It still doesn’t. The conditions that led to October 7 were not inevitable, and the path we take from here is still ours to choose.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

This is a stain on all of us. It is a grave desecration of the very lives lost on October 7. This is no way to honor the dead. It is a betrayal of their memory and of our shared humanity.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

The conditions are catastrophic: tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of Palestinian lives taken, families erased, survivors concentrated in camps, mass starvation inflicted, homes reduced to rubble, the systems that sustain life, education, healthcare, water, & shelter, systematically annihilated.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

We grieve, with bitter pain, that the memory of those lives continues to be used not to heal, but to harm – weaponized to justify the Israeli military’s genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza and beyond.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

The pain of that day echoes still, as survivors carry trauma, and families continue to live with the absence of loved ones and long for those still held in captivity. May the memories of those killed on October 7 be a blessing.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

We grieve for the over 1,100 Israelis killed in the Hamas-led attack two years ago. We hold in our hearts the sacredness of each life lost, each person a world unto themselves, each death an entire universe destroyed.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

Today, on the second anniversary of October 7, we pause to mourn, to grieve, and to remember.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

"It feels as if everything has vanished. Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, without records, as if they had never existed – so many other things have been hollowed out: basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future."

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

www.theguardian.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

"How does one mourn and commemorate an atrocity against your people in the midst of an atrocity done to another people in your name?" www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid

Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformed

www.theguardian.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

Today is Tues, Oct 7

Two years ago today, my people were massacred. Two years ago today, Israel launched a genocide. I'm not sure I know how to be hopeful or helpful today.

The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage enough to build it. May all their memories be a revolution.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d

What Trump is doing here in failing to defend David Adler is a threat to Jewish safety because Trump is saying Jewish safety is conditional on agreeing with him.

Too many obsess over students wearing keffiyehs when basic rights are being taken away.

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 2d

You do not have to be Jewish to be gravely upset about this. In fact, the majority standing up are not.

But as a Jew, the genocide & my own community's complicity in it, has bn devastating to me, as is the gaslighting, lack of awareness, and excuses made for decades of abuse of Palestinians.

Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 2d

Pt1 🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "There's a live-streamed Genocide in front of our eyes in Gaza. No one will be able to say they didn't know this was happening. The Global Samud Flotilla only existed because our leaders failed. Our international systems are betraying Palestinians."

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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 2d

Israel is continuing to violently force Palestinians from Gaza City to move south.

This is forced displacement, which is illegal under international law. Governments of the world must stop Israel’s violence with immediate sanctions.

I vowed never to flee Gaza City. Israel's assault has left no choice

After two years of defying Israeli orders, I realized I could no longer protect my family if we stayed put, as bombs fall on every corner of our city.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 3d

1 in 5 babies in Gaza is born prematurely or underweight.

Earlier this week, @unicef.org delivered urgently needed hygiene supplies to hospitals & health centres in Gaza City.

But that’s far from enough.

Aid at scale is critical to save lives.

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 3d

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