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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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JVP Chicago @jvp-chicago.bsky.social · 6d

yasher koach to our beloved comrades at broadview today. from illinois to gaza, all borders will fall!

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

I’m on the ground at a prayer vigil near the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

I’m on the ground at a prayer vigil near the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 6d

Anti-Zionist activists gather at the Gaza fence in solidarity with the Sumud Flotilla and the people of Gaza.

Videos by Oren Ziv, in partnership with Local Call.

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #globalsumudflotilla

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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 7d

The JewsforFoodAidforPeopleInGaza campaing is so so so close to reaching the $180,000 goal for our High Holiday Tzedakah campaign before Yom Kippur begins. If you haven't yet please give now! givebutter.com/FoodAidTzeda...

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 8d

As we prepare for Yom Kippur, @jfrejnyc.bsky.social ED Audrey Sasson & Rabbi Avigayil Halperin study several Jewish texts, exploring what teshuvah looks like for the crime of crimes, and what accountability could mean for complicit Jewish leadership.

Study guide also available at the link.

Is It Possible to Atone for Genocide?

An investigation through Jewish text on responsibility and culpability in the face of mass death.

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 9d

one of the frontlines to democracy exists in Broadview, IL. if you're white like me and think you would have had the courage to resist Jim Crow, or if you think you would have stood with your favorite historical figure resisting oppression, guess what Chicago, you have an opportunity to show us. 🧵

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JVP Chicago @jvp-chicago.bsky.social · 14d

Today is Tzom Gedaliah. If it’s your custom to give tzedakah on fast days, or on the High Holy Days in general, please consider supporting the Jews For Food Aid fundraiser to keep the Gaza Soup Kitchen open through Yom Kippur.

givebutter.com/FoodAidTzedakah

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 14d

ICE is terrorizing my neighborhood (Pilsen) and so many others in Chicagoland. There have been sightings and abductions everyday. Please support our rapid response efforts: bit.ly/punofundraiser

PUÑO Fundraiser

Pilsen Defense & Access is launching a fundraiser through the end of Hispanic Heritage month, with 100% of funds raised going to PUÑO! PUÑO (Pilsen Unidos por Nuestro Orgullo) works to protect our...

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 16d

This year, may the shofar be a wake-up call for all. As we enter 5786, our commitment to justice is greater than ever.

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JVP Chicago @jvp-chicago.bsky.social · 23d

recommend looking into the international anti-zionist jewish network (IJAN)!

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 27d

Far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert added an amendment to the Pentagon budget that targets the BDS movement against Israel.

The House Just Passed a Bill Punishing “Politically Motivated” Boycotts of Israel

Far-right Rep. Lauren Boeberg added an amendment to the Pentagon budget that targets the BDS boycott movement against Israel.

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Truthout @truthout.org · Aug 29

Israel has begun the “initial stages” of its siege on Gaza City, declaring the capital city a “dangerous combat zone” and ending its daytime pauses for the supposed purpose of allowing the passage of humanitarian aid, despite a famine declaration across the area last week.

Israel Announces Total Siege of Gaza City, Declaring Entire Area “Combat Zone”

The announcement comes a week after the UN-backed declaration of famine in Gaza City.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Aug 29

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

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marxuckerberg @marxuckerberg.bsky.social · Aug 20

New by me in Midwest Socialist: Did you know that Illinois has an extremist pro-Israel law on the books? Cause we do, and we have a unique opportunity to repeal it. Read at the link below.

midwestsocialist.com/2025/08/20/n...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Aug 11

Where are the big names that proclaim themselves as brave, bold, as telling things as they are? The network figureheads, the Washington mainstays? Israeli forces have killed some 245 journalists in the past 22 months. Journalists who were also people, just like anyone else, and who had to become bigger than life, in order to justify themselves to viewers thousands of miles away. People who had been forced every single day to report on the devastation of their own land, their own families. People who would cover an airstrike that killed their children and, by sheer necessity, continue to report on the next strike, in the pursuit of convincing the world to act, of the hope of tomorrow being different.

How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?

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quiet enough @quietenough.bsky.social · Aug 11

"Oh mute world, look"

Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · Aug 10

"The bodies of Al Jazeera correspondents Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qreiqa were carried on the shoulders of mourners through the streets of #Gaza following their assassination in a targeted #Israeli airstrike on their press tent at Al-Shifa Hospital."

www.instagram.com/p/DNMRdsTAfy...

#Israel #News

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Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social · Aug 8

PRA’s @benlorber8.bsky.social dives into how Heather Johnston, a little-known Christian Zionist from Alabama, organized the recent congressional visit to the West Bank and why operatives like her shouldn’t be ignored by mainstream media. Read the full article @religiondispatches.org: bit.ly/3URGcRa

Who is Heather Johnston?
From Media Fail to Note Christian Zionist Operative Who Organized Congressional Visit to West Bank by Ben Lorber

Heather Johnston runs a number of pro-Israel organizations from her home base in Alabama, including the US Israel Educational Association (USIEA) and the National Leadership Center (NLC), a 130-acre ‘Biblical’ retreat center in Ariel visited by the elected officials. For Christian Zionists like Johnston, the creation (or as they would call it, the ‘re-establishment’) of the state of Israel in 1948 represents a partial fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. But it’s just the prelude. They yearn for a spiritual awakening among Israeli Jews, as a further sign of the fast-approaching Messianic End Times. Like many in the NAR, Johnston regularly charges Christian Zionists to be “intercessors” and “watchmen on the walls” in prayer and support for Israel. This Congressional visit was part of an internationally-coordinated Christian Zionist strategy long in the making whose connections are everywhere in the US pro-Israel movement. Unfortunately, since they’re often overlooked by major media their influence can be difficult to spot.

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Center for Jewish Nonviolence @cjnv.org · Aug 8

On Aug. 7 a Awdah was finally buried in Umm al Kheir, but the situation in Masafer Yatta is dire. The community calls on Israel to:

1. Assure the safety of communities in Masafer Yatta facing the threats of lethal state and settler violence.

2. Bring Yinon Levy to justice for the murder of Awdah.

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · Aug 6

“This is a working-class issue. And as a labor leader, it is our responsibility to be the shield of the working class. An injury to one is an injury to all, and that doesn’t exclude Palestinians.”

www.democracynow.org/2025/8/5/chr...

Labor Leader Chris Smalls Describes Israeli Arrest & Assault After Military Raids Gaza Flotilla

Former Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls joins us for one of his first interviews since he returned to the United States after he was beaten, arrested and detained by the Israeli military for ...

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · Aug 5

My latest @religiondispatches.org - GOP leader Mike Johnson visited the West Bank yesterday & proclaimed support for Israeli annexation. But few noticed the Christian Zionist operative who has arranged trips like his for decades, driven by Biblical prophecy religiondispatches.org/media-fail-t...

Media Fail to Note Christian Zionist Operative Who Organized Congressional Visit to West Bank

Yesterday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, the third-highest ranking US official, visited the Israeli settlement of Ariel, deep in the occupied West Bank, to pledge support for full Israeli annexation of ...

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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨 JUSTICE FOR AWDAH - DEMAND HIS BODY IS RETURNED TO UMM AL-KHEIR 🚨

The women of Umm al-Kheir – led by Awdah’s mother, wife and sister – are on hunger strike, demanding Israel release his body so that he can be buried in the village where he was born.

➡️ actionnetwork.org/letters/brin...

Demand Justice for Awdah: Tell David Lammy and Hamish Falconer to demand Israel return Awdah's body

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Center for Jewish Nonviolence @cjnv.org · Aug 4

On Thursday July 31st, more than 60 women in the Palestinian village of Umm al Khair, in the Southern West Bank initiated a hunger strike to demand the return of the body of community leader Awdah Hathaleen

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Truthout @truthout.org · Aug 1

The family of a Palestinian American child who was 15 at his time of arrest are begging for his release from Israeli prison, where he has been held for nearly six months in pre-trial detention over allegations of throwing rocks.

Israel Is Imprisoning Florida-Born Cousin of American Slain by Settlers

Israeli officials have barred the 16-year-old from contacting his family for months as they hold him without trial.

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