r/JewsOfConscience • u/isawasin Non-Jewish Ally • Sep 08 '24

Activism Sarah Friedland accepts award at the Venice Film festival: “I am accepting this award on the 336th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and 76th year of occupation”

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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:

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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

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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.

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u/isawasin Non-Jewish Ally Sep 08 '24

Her composure and the succinctness of her statement doesn't hide the plaintive emotion behind her words. It's been almost a year. It's been almost a century.

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u/daudder Anti-Zionist Sep 08 '24

I love the fact that she did not distinguish the Nakba from the Nakhsa and calls the whole time from the end of the British mandate to-date an occupation.

Many so-called “Left” Israelis may moan. My response is that it was Israel who has not accepted any borders until now, and through its brutal repression, apartheid and insistence on the ethnic cleansing of all of Palestine has forfeited the possibility of a Zionist state anywhere in Palestine.

This is on them and the Palestinians and their supporters will not rest until Palestine is free - from the river to the sea.

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u/bravet4b Sep 08 '24

God bless this woman.

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u/Stunning_Excuse_4557 Sep 08 '24

courageious beautiful jewish women

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '24

Chills. Wow. You can see the people sitting there that have been waiting for someone to say something

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u/catsinasmrvideos Sep 08 '24

Thank you for standing with the Palestinians and against the genocide by Israel, Ms Friedland. You are braver than most 💙

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u/NYCQuilts Sep 09 '24

Beautiful, brave woman. I’m glad she had support in the audience.

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u/EntertainmentNo2689 Sep 08 '24

Hey I just wanted to say I love it here, thanks!

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u/chewinchawingum Sep 09 '24

That took so much courage. ❤️🍉

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u/quasifaust Sep 09 '24

Would highly recommend her film Lyd

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u/mrmoe198 Sep 10 '24

What courage, to speak this inconvenient truth and risk career assassination. We should all be so bold to speak truth to power. Free Palestine!

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u/PhoenixHntr Sep 09 '24

What a hero, it is difficult for a jewish to voice those statements knowing that the isolation and consequences she might face.

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u/skkkkkt Sep 09 '24

The empty claps, fuck them,seriously these claps have become a knee jerk reaction