I visit many sites online and comment frequently. What follows is a comment that touches on an important point, we can't be afraid of name-calling when butchery is going on in our name.
On my vigil in front of a synagogue I have found that the overwhelming response is sympathy for "Palestinian lives matter". It isn't that Americans are all-in for Israel, it is that those who oppose Israel are completely intimidated by the thought that if they speak out they will be (falsely) labeled an antisemite.
Those who, like me, believe in liberty and justice for all and are opposed to ethnic cleansing by anyone, have to accept that they are going to get attacked by the wealth and political power of Zionism in the US with the weapon of choice being the false charge of antisemitism as seen in action by Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL and Alan Dershowitz. This should not stop the citizenry of the "land of the free and the home of the brave", but it does.
America has been made an accomplice by our war criminal President who on his own and without a moment of hesitation declared himself a Zionist and made the unwarranted assertion that "we" stand with Israel. As Americans who do not stand with Israel, it is necessary for us to speak up and say so, just as the members of Jewish Voice for Peace are speaking up saying that they are not covered by Netanyahu's incredible claim that he is the leader of world Jewry and that Israel is the one and only place where Jews are safe. American Jews are living testimony that this is not true.
American Jews and Palestinian Americans live in peace as equals, putting the lie to the foundation of Zionism. Biden and Netanyahu want the world to think that Israel is doing right when it is committing atrocities protected and aided by the United States. This is a horror, this "special relationship", that has brought my beloved country down to the lowest moral level it has ever had.
The fear of job loss and doxing is well founded; Bill Ackman, Zionist, has declared no pro-Palestinian campus protester will ever have a job with his company, so it is primarily the retired, like me, who have an obligation to use their freedom of speech to speak out forcefully for liberty and justice for all even as Trump is about to take the country down even lower in supporting Israel at the behest of Zionists like Miriam Adelson (to whom he gave the Medal of Freedom!) who surround and support him.
Stop trembling in fear and make some noise in defense of the equality of all human lives and the right of natives to retain their land, homes and lives. Silence in the face of atrocities when a "leader" is making claims for you is assent. Speak up in defiance of what has been said in your name.
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