From Jewish Voice for Peace email: Two days ago at 11:30 in the morning in New Orleans, more than 12 young, proud Jews with Jewish Voice for Peace gave voice to the disillusionment of a generation. They loudly named the unnameable in the Jewish community-Israel’s immoral violations of human rights of Palestinians and much of the Jewish institutional world’s active support of those violations.
This happened on November 8, 2010.
Message from the activists:
Let Them Know
Today let them feel both our bitterness and our love, for both are our tools.
Let them know our faces and hear our truths.
May they stop pretending that we are invisible, that they can provide us with pre-recorded talking points for us to simply playback.
Do not allow them to forget our anger and disappointment at the way they have failed us, because they must know.
Let them know about the young Israelis who speak fluent Arabic so that they might hear Palestinians, with whom they march every week, in their own words.
Remind them that the soft skin burned and melted because of the white phosphorous thrown on purpose is also our skin.
Remind them that each slab of concrete in the apartheid wall separates them from us.
When they feel our anger and disappointment, may they also feel our electric faith- our thrill at the prospect for a truly just future.
We are not their bastard delegitimate children, but the beautiful future.
May they someday realize that we have saved them and hold their legacy so dear that we could not let go.
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