r/JewsOfConscience • u/ArmyOfMemories Jewish Anti-Zionist • Aug 23 '24

Humor Jon Stewart mocked the DNC for excluding Palestinian-American voices

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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/ThatsnotTechno Aug 23 '24 edited Aug 24 '24

So glad he did this, how dumb of the Democrats

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u/Zealousideal-Skin655 Aug 23 '24

It was a mistake

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u/newgoliath Jewish Communist Aug 23 '24

AIPAC would have freaked out and they would have lost a significant amount of funding.

Genocide is good business.

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u/Zealousideal-Skin655 Aug 23 '24

Power is power. This has been planned for sometime. They know how to work the system. They learned from the mistakes of South Africa apartheid.

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u/newgoliath Jewish Communist Aug 24 '24

I haven't ever seen an anti-imperialist Democrat... Because the USA runs on imperialism.

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u/ArmyOfMemories Jewish Anti-Zionist Aug 23 '24

Great bit. Made me think of classic Jon.

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u/AffectionateElk3978 Aug 23 '24

Oh the joys of Genocide! I love Jon!!!

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u/Vivid24 Non-Jewish Ally Aug 23 '24

As if I couldn’t love Jon Stewart anymore than I already do. Speaking personally, I couldn’t bring myself to watch the DNC after hearing about a Palestinian American speaker being denied a chance to speak. And even before that I couldn’t watch it because it felt wrong to me to watch politicians talk about joy and fighting for Americans while leaving little room to talk about Gaza and Palestinians.