Naomi Klein: Jews Must Raise Their Voices for Palestine, Oppose the “False Idol of Zionism” (Democracy Now!, 2024-04-24)
Zionism as another golden calf. A strong message from Naomi Klein.
(Video with transcript)
"Thousands of Jewish Americans and allies gathered in Brooklyn on Tuesday for a «Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel» on the second night of Passover..."
"What I want to say to you this evening at this revolutionary and historic Seder in the Streets is that too many of our people are worshiping a false idol once again... And that false idol is called Zionism."
Thanks for posting this very important event which of course is not being reported about in big German media
where they always are convinced to be first and best in solidarity with Israel, but certainly not with non conforming and dissenting Jews.
"At the core of the Passover story is
We cannot be free until all people are free"
says Beth Miller from Jewish Voice for Peace at the Seder in the streets of New York City
A moving speech or even prayer from the ecofeminist heart of #NaomiKlein
just hours before the senate approved 14 Billion dollars for weapons and security tech for Israel
was fervent in the rejection of Zionism.
Klein, who is of worldwide prominence as author and #climate activist, today is rejected even by German climate justice movements because of her stance against #genocide in #Gaza
The more important it is to make her words heard everywhere especially in the heart of darkness, the false celebration of ethno nationalist #colonialism and #racism
These unifying words were at the end of her impressive speech against the "false Idol of Zionism":
What are we? We, in these streets for months and months, we are the exodus, the exodus from Zionism. So, to the Chuck Schumers of this world, we do not say, “Let our people go.” We say, “We have already gone, and your kids, they are with us now.”
"Gathered around a banner emblazoned with the words «stop arming Israel,» thousands of protesters joined with Jewish-led peace groups in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday evening to attend a Passover protest that recalls the «Freedom Seder» held in the tumultuous year of 1969."
"The event was organized by the left-leaning Jewish Voices for Peace and the If Not Now movement, who said they saw the Seder protests as part of Jewish tradition that they traced back to Rabbi Arthur Waskow, who held the first Freedom Seder."
"Hundreds of protesters were reported arrested while blocking the streets of Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza."