Dear fellow liberal Zionists: The establishment doesn’t want us | New Voices: The National Jewish Student Magazine

Dear fellow liberal Zionists: The establishment doesn’t want us | New Voices: The National Jewish Student Magazine





Breaking the Silence




"But in the end there aren’t just two lanes, pro-Israel and pro-BDS.
There is a third way in between those lanes — pro-Israel and
anti-occupation."

This important point was raised in an article
written following a panel we took part in at the Roosevelt House Public
Policy Institute at Hunter College, alongside our colleague from the New
Israel Fund and human rights lawyer, Michael Sfard.


We're glad to take part in such critical debate abroad, on diaspora
Jewry's role in the conversation on Israel's policy of occupation. We
refuse to accept that supporting Israel entails supporting the
occupation, and are proud that young diaspora Jews are standing firmly
with Israel by expressing their opposition to the occupation loud and
clear.



 

At Hunter College’s Roosevelt House (above),
Michael Sfard and spokespeople from Breaking the Silence and the New
Israel Fund participated in a panel about the state of human rights
activism in Israel today. | Supplied by Fashawks8 [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons