To build an effective movement for Palestine we need every ally | Judith Levine

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Humanism, which underlies Standing Together's and Chen's practices, takes the equal value of all lives as its starting point, the germ from which to cultivate political equality and justice.
46% : What the parallel spats over a Guernica magazine essay retraction and the boycott of Standing Together teach us about how to build a movementIn early March, most of the all-volunteer staff of the leftwing political and literary journal Guernica resigned in protest of the publication of an essay by an Israeli woman about her struggle in the weeks after 7 October to "tread the line of empathy, to feel passion for both sides".What they objected to most in Joanna Chen's essay, From the Edges of a Broken World, was what it left out: an explicit critique of Israel's longstanding policies of apartheid, its violent occupation, and the genocide it is currently committing in Gaza.
41% : One result of Israel's tightening isolation of the occupied territories and its unofficial but almost complete segregation of Jewish and Arab Israelis in public schools, is that many Jewish children have never had a real relationship with a Palestinian and many Palestinian children have never met an Israeli except those who rough them up at the checkpoints or arrest their siblings.

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