More than 500 employees of dozens of synagogues and Jewish groups signed a letter calling for a cease-fire. Most signed anonymously for fear of their jobs.
The longer this goes on, the more danger we’re all in, both Jews and Muslims. The longer this goes on, the more anti-semitism and islamophobia will become normalized, because the whole world will have somewhere to point and say “those people did bad things, so they must all be bad everywhere.”
The longer this goes on, the more our speech will be limited to avoid angering the moneyed class, the evangelical rapture cults, and the arms industry. The voices that matter most will be harder to hear because they’ll be drowned out by raw hatred coming from those who don’t understand the history of the region or its people.
We need to tone down the zealous rhetoric, back away from unconditional support of unreliable regimes, and remember that empathy is one of the most powerful and useful emotions, if we all allow ourselves to feel it.
I hope you don’t mind that I’m going to springboard off your post to share a similar sentiment. This is an article I read recently and I thought it was a very healthy, human, and loving take on the situation: https://lifeisasacredtext.substack.com/p/hand-in-hand
The longer this goes on, the more danger we’re all in, both Jews and Muslims. The longer this goes on, the more anti-semitism and islamophobia will become normalized, because the whole world will have somewhere to point and say “those people did bad things, so they must all be bad everywhere.”
The longer this goes on, the more our speech will be limited to avoid angering the moneyed class, the evangelical rapture cults, and the arms industry. The voices that matter most will be harder to hear because they’ll be drowned out by raw hatred coming from those who don’t understand the history of the region or its people.
We need to tone down the zealous rhetoric, back away from unconditional support of unreliable regimes, and remember that empathy is one of the most powerful and useful emotions, if we all allow ourselves to feel it.
I hope you don’t mind that I’m going to springboard off your post to share a similar sentiment. This is an article I read recently and I thought it was a very healthy, human, and loving take on the situation: https://lifeisasacredtext.substack.com/p/hand-in-hand