There is an understanding in Israel that Americans Jews oppose the aggression shown by the conservatives and the increase in settlements.
In Israel, it plays differently in that Israelis in small numbers demonstrate to prevent the sale of homes to Arabs. Demonstrates of such bigotry number about 50 (click here) in comparison to the Gaza border demonstrations.
IFNOTNOW (click here)
June 7, 2018
By Ben Sales
Schwartz had grown up ensconced in the Conservative movement, had attended three of its Ramah camps and had moved up the ranks as a staff member at Ramah Wisconsin. When Israel’s war in Gaza broke out in the summer of 2014, she was the unit head for incoming seventh-graders — a position reserved for staff veterans.
She was also a college student who, after a lifetime of pro-Israel education, was becoming more critical of Israel’s control of the West Bank and its treatment of Palestinians. So when fellow staff members began saying Kaddish, the mourners’ prayer, for Israelis killed in the conflict, she began praying for Palestinian victims as well.
Her superiors let her do it — but they did not back her up when she felt backlash from her unit counselors.
“I felt pretty strongly that we needed to acknowledge and remember the lives of Palestinians and Israelis,” Schwartz said....
