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“Until now, there has not been such a mainstream Orthodox Jewish leader’s denunciation of the form Zionism has taken in Israel’s occupation of Palestine and the shocking massacre it is conducting in Gaza.
Drawing on Jewish ethics and what, as a survivor, he sees as the lessons of the Nazi Holocaust, Rabbi Henry Siegman, a former executive director of the American Jewish Congress, provides a ray of hope in restoring what many of us think is the ethics of Judaism and a path out of this moment…He questions the Zionist project if this is what it entails. In the end, the myth of building a “land without a people for a people without a land”, the Herzl dream, has led to a horrible reality. This points to the danger of trying to create a reality from a myth which ignores millions of people, the Palestinian people. As someone who shares some of Rabbi Siegman’s history in Nazi Europe and a commitment to the best of Judaism, and as a supporter of the Palestinian struggle, I say “At last, at last…a mainstream Rabbinical Jewish voice of sanity and morality on the question of Palestine.”
– Suzanne Ross (ICFFMAJ)
Democracy Now interview with Rabbi Siegman – Part 1
Democracy Now interview with Rabbi Siegman – Part 2
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