7-14-2020 Another liberal Zionist group faces insurgency– a call to cut ties to Israel – Philip Weiss Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2020/07/another-liberal-zionist-group-faces-insurgency-a-call-to-cut-ties-to-israel/


A couple weeks ago we reported that more than 1000 alumni of J Street's youth branch, J Street U, signed a letter to the liberal Zionist group saying its approach of urging Israel to end the occupation had failed and J Street should call for reductions in U.S. aid if Israel goes through with annexation.  J Street rejected the advice. "We believe that Israel should continue to receive from the United States the full amount of security assistance outlined in the MOU: $3.8 billion per year." Though J Street calls for restricting that aid to certain purposes. Well, here's another group of liberal Zionist alums in an uprising. More than 500 members and alumni of a Labor Zionist group famous for socialist kibbutzim — the Habonim Dror movement— have signed a letter that is in some ways anti-Zionist. It calls on the organization to answer Israeli annexation by cutting off much of its relationship to Israel: stop sending North American youth to programs in Israel and encouraging Jews to move to Israel. ..

 

Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

 


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