r/JewsOfConscience • u/Dependent-Play-7970 • Aug 18 '24

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Rabbi David Mivasair has a GoFundMe to help provide basis necessities for the Palestinians of Gaza. If it is within your means, this is the link:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-gaza-families-survive

Rabbi Mivasair writes:

I want to add that the need is not only for money. There is a huge need for people there to simply have someone NOT there who expresses care toward them, who listens to them, who witnesses with compassion and empathy. I think of the people who scrawled on the walls of barracks in Nazi concentration camps "if only someone on the outside knew what they are doing to us here". I want to be the people who let them know that we do care, we are listening, we are trying to help, and they can tell us what is going on in their lives.

Please consider signing this petition which calls for a ceasefire and arms embargo, started by Rabbi Brant Rosen of Tzedek Chicago.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/not-another-bomb-sign-on-letter?source=direct_link&referrer=group-jvp-2

Excerpt:

We know that in order to achieve a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the U.S. must stop arming Israel’s war and occupation against Palestinians. That’s why we are calling for an immediate embargo on US arms to Israel. Join us in calling on presidential candidate Kamala Harris to distance herself from Biden’s disastrous policy of arming Israel’s ongoing genocide and occupation in Palestine.

Not another bomb!

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u/Quiet-Report4554 Aug 18 '24

Such a brave, bright and righteous young man, he is more of a man than the whole bunch of army dressed people infront of him ever will be. What a star indeed.

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u/Dependent-Play-7970 Aug 18 '24

I wish more people like him were in power especially in Israel and America

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u/Vivid24 Non-Jewish Ally Aug 18 '24

I’m not particularly spiritual, but I pray that justice comes soon for the Palestinians

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u/Dependent-Play-7970 Aug 18 '24

So do I 🙏🇵🇸

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u/chief_pak Aug 18 '24

Wow. This is beyond having balls.

People have been lynched and thrown in jails for a loooong period of time for a lot less.

I am a Muslim and my Allah give this Jew more courage and just reward.

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Aug 19 '24

May God will it.

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u/hydroxypcp Non-Jewish Ally Aug 19 '24

the man is speaking truth in the face of danger. He has more balls than all those IOF "soldiers" standing there combined

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u/mathiswiss Aug 18 '24

People like him do exist, it’s just the corrupted media that doesn’t show them. Besides the murdering, it’s the media covering for it and the suppression of voices like his, that’s so disgusting.

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u/Dependent-Play-7970 Aug 18 '24

It’s especially hard for people like him when they live in Israel I know this because I live in Israel and the people here are deeply radical and are indoctrinated into believing in Zionism

and they don’t tolerate different opinions About their government and especially when it comes to Palestine Even i don’t talk about Palestine living here and it must be hell for people like him who do but that just makes him More of a hero

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u/Calm_State1230 Non-Jewish Ally Aug 18 '24

if ANYONE touches a single hair on his head istfg

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u/PlentyContract1928 Aug 19 '24

Brave man. Shalom.