More Jewish Leaders are speaking out on Gaza, but…

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This is Brant Rosen’s cautious welcome to the growing number of Jewish leaders who are speaking out against what is being done to Gaza. His concerns are less than that they are rather late to the struggle because coming late is better than not coming at all, but rather does the attention push Palestinians’ voices further into the background and what is the focus of their protest.  As a Jewish organisation fighting for peace and justice for Palestinians, how to better raise Palestinian voices is a question for us all. However, a major issue is this failure to “join up the dots” and to put the blame only on this government in Israel as though the Nakba and Occupation under previous Israeli governments are somehow irrelevant and as if this barbarity is an aberration rather than a more extreme version of what has gone before.

It is good that it is becoming too much even for advocates for Israel but we note something similar to what Brant Rosen has observed in this approach from “Top Jewish Philanthropists” whose concern seems to be motivated by the damaging impact of the genocide on world Jewry more than the Palestinian people.

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This article was originally published by Shalom Rav . Read the original here.