JERUSALEM (JTA) — Half of the Israeli public supports applying Israeli sovereignty over parts of the West Bank, a new survey found, while 58 percent of respondents believe unilateral annexation by Israel could lead to a third Palestinian intifada.
Twenty-five prevent of Israelis support annexation with the support of the United States, and the same percentage said they support such a move even without the backing of the Trump administration, according to the Israeli Voice Index monthly survey conductedby the Guttman Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research at the Israel Democracy Institute.
Thirty percent of Israelis opposed annexation, the survey found, and 20 percent responded “don’t know.” Some 57 percent of Arab-Israelis surveyed said that they were opposed to annexation, with 20 percent responding “don’t know.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week in a meeting with government ministers that he has a target date in July to extend Israeli sovereignty over about 30% of the West Bank, which is provided for in the Trump administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.
Those who most support applying Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank are voters for the haredi Orthodox parties and the farther right Yamina. Among voters for the centrist-left Blue and White, the majority opposes applying sovereignty either with or without U.S. agreement and only about one third favor it. The highest rates of Likud voters are prepared to apply sovereignty even without U.S. consent.
The poll, which was taken between May 27 and May 31, interviewed 622 men and women in Hebrew and 149 in Arabic. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percent.
The State of Israel’s official Twitter account issued a tweet on June 3 sarcastically pointing out that Jesus Christ was Jewish, not Palestinian.
The exchange began with a tweet from the @TheTweetOfGod satirical account tweeting out a picture of Jesus with the words, “Privilege doesn’t get much whiter than making a Roman-era Palestinian look like this.”
Privilege doesn't get much whiter than making a Roman-era Palestinian look like this. pic.twitter.com/i05NG7FlVm
— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) June 3, 2020
Israel’s official account, which the Israeli Foreign Ministry runs, tweeted in response, “God: Jesus was a Palestinian. Jesus: Hey Dad, remember when you gave that speech about Jewish values at my Bar Mitzvah?”
God: Jesus was a Palestinian.
Jesus: Hey Dad, remember when you gave that speech about Jewish values at my Bar Mitzvah?
The satirical God account responded, “TheTweetOfGod: Jesus wasn’t actually fair-skinned. Israel’s Twitter account: Hey TheTweetOfGod, I am the official Twitter account of the State of Israel and I am going to officially respond to you for the world to see and also Palestinians suck.”
Pro-Israel activist Aboud Dandachi, a Syrian refugee who lives in Canada, tweeted, “No Israeli official EVER said that Palestinians suck. Israel has been providing corona aid to Gaza when no one else would. Palestinians get treated at Israeli hospitals. The Palestinians should be thanking their Allah to have neighbors like the Israelis.”
The Mossad satirical account tweeted, “Privilege doesn’t get much whiter than making @TheTweetOfGod’s depiction look like this,” referencing the fact that the satirical God account’s Twitter profile picture is a white man.
— The Mossad: The Spies Who Loved You (@TheMossadIL) June 3, 2020
In April 2019, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) retweeted a tweet stating that Jesus was a Palestinian. Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action Agenda at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Rabbi Abraham Cooper told the Journal at the time that such a claim is a “grotesque insult to Jesus born in the land of Israel and to Christianity,” adding that “Palestine was a name made up by Romans after they crucified thousands, destroyed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and exiled the People of Israel from their homeland.”
(JTA) — The Education Ministry of Serbia has added to its website a definition of anti-Semitism that includes some examples of hatred against Israel.
The ministry uploaded the definition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, to the site on April 30.
On Monday, the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade offered its congratulations on Twitter to the Serbian government “for adopting the IHRA definition.”
Serbia is a close ally of Russia, which has not adopted the definition.
Eleven countries have been said to adopt the definition.
In France, the adoption was put to a vote, which was passed in December. In the United Kingdom, the government announced in 2016 that it was adopting the measure.
The definition states that some forms of vitriol against Israel, including comparing it to Nazi Germany and denying the Jewish people’s right to self determination, are examples of anti-Semitism, though criticizing Israel’s policies is not.
“The purpose of this document is to provide a practical guide for identifying and collecting data on anti-Semitic incidents,” the Serbian Education Ministry’s website reads.
Pro-Palestinian activists oppose the IHRA definition, claiming it prevents criticism of Israel’s policies or unduly limits free speech.
The definition features mostly examples of anti-Semitic behaviors unconnected to Israel, such as calling to harm Jews or denying the Holocaust.
Manifestations of anti-Semitism, the new definition reads, “might include the targeting of the State of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity,” though “criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as anti-Semitic.”
Some on Twitter criticized the image, arguing that it politicized Floyd’s death.
“Cynical and sickening: Palestinian activists photoshop a nationalistic keffiyeh scarf onto the image of #GeorgeFloyd RIP in an attempt to appropriate his memory for their political ends,” StandWithUs Israel Executive Director Michael Dickson tweeted. “A cheap, hurtful stunt.”
Cynical and sickening: Palestinian activists photoshop a nationalistic keffiyeh scarf onto the image of #GeorgeFloyd RIP in an attempt to appropriate his memory for their political ends. A cheap, hurtful stunt. pic.twitter.com/juITJ2OQ1J
Pro-Israel activist and international human rights layer Arsen Ostrovsky similarly tweeted, “The Palestinians did give birth to the global hijacking movement. Now, instead of planes, they’ve taken to hijacking other people’s grief. This is a new low!”
Well, the Palestinians did give birth to the global hijacking movement. Now, instead of planes, they’ve taken to hijacking other peoples grief. This is a new low! #GeorgeFloydpic.twitter.com/IhSvwc6C31
Pro-Israel writer Yoni Michanie also tweeted, “This picture has the fantastic ability to, simultaneously, whitewash the crimes of Palestinian leaders throughout the last century while also staining the memory of George Floyd. It robs all of Black America from their struggle to achieve equality, justice, and dignity.”
This picture has the fantastic ability to, simultaneously, whitewash the crimes of Palestinian leaders throughout the last century while also staining the memory of George Floyd.
It robs all of Black America from their struggle to achieve equality, justice, and dignity. pic.twitter.com/bYZy5nBXSO
Bryan Leib, former national director of the Americans Against Anti-Semitism watchdog, tweeted, “Apparently #GeorgeFloyd is now a martyr for the Palestinian people. What’s next? Will Hamas name a street, school & a rocket after him so his name is associated with terrorists who have murdered Jews? Sick!”
He added: “How dare the Palestinians cheapen the murder of an innocent man!”
Apparently #GeorgeFloyd is now a martyr for the Palestinian people. What's next?
Will Hamas name a street, school & a rocket after him so his name is associated with terrorists who have murdered Jews? Sick!
The Palestine Museum did not respond to the Journal’s request for comment.
Floyd, 46, an African American, died on May 25 after a white Minneapolis police officer was video recorded pressing his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is charging the officer, Derek Chauvin, with second-degree murder and the three other officers present at the time of Floyd’s death with aiding and abetting second-degree murder.
I wake up with a heavy heart as I bear witness to my country in a continuous cycle of violence and racism. Growing up black and Jewish in America, I am always asked, “You’re Jewish, but how?” Without hesitation I respond, “The same as you.” Often, that response is met with blank stares and silence. I internally roll my eyes and try to move the conversation along. I have yet to know why it matters how I am Jewish rather than my understood devotion.
Over the years, I have strived to find my place in both communities. I have fought for acceptance and a place to claim as my own. Now I am a mother of two beautiful black Jewish children and fully immersed in both communities. However, I still feel that I have to defend my blackness and Jewish identity. “Where does my loyalty lie?” I was once asked. “What side do you choose?” Questions such as these have traveled with me throughout my life. Now, as I sit and watch my city burn and my people suffocating, I cannot help but wonder, “Where do I stand?”
Before the protest, we were all faced with the uncertainty of what the future held. No one was safe from this super virus, and just for a minute, it felt like we were in this together. We encouraged each other to stay in and stay healthy, to help those in need. Like most things, this unity was short-lived, and the harsh truth of our country’s realities was broadcast for all to bear witness. This was yet another breaking point for America.
I cannot help but feel numb to this harsh reality. I cannot help but feel like I am moving effortlessly through this chaos. I am black, Jewish and American and have had to endure racial profiling and discrimination, not only in society but also in my own communities.
I cannot help but feel numb to this harsh reality. I cannot help but feel like I am moving effortlessly through this chaos. I am black, Jewish and American and have had to endure racial profiling and discrimination, not only in society but also in my own communities. When after telling my employers that I am Jewish too, and still being asked to work on the High Holy Days. When receiving less pay for the same work and being told it is because I am less qualified, yet knowing I meet all qualifications, if not more. Or being told I do not fit the direction they are moving in. This is the reality that I have been faced with, and that haunts me.
Blind discrimination is what fuels the outrage that we now witness. Aware or not, you become part of the problem when you sit and watch or do not speak up for your fellow Americans. This is not a time for silence. We have entered into a time where we need to speak up and speak loudly. I have been asked, “Well, what can you do to help?”
Be silent no more. I, myself, will be silent no more.
Here’s what you can do: Speak up for your minority counterparts. Demand diversity and equality. Open your eyes and ears to the concerns of those around you. Be silent no more. I, myself, will be silent no more.
So, where do I stand?
I stand alongside those that are fighting for a chance to breathe; fighting for their voices to be heard; fighting for equality and a better future for their children. I stand to fight to replace the hundreds of millions of black lives lost. I stand by my faith and identity. I am a black Jewish American, and I matter.
Christina Benson- Wilson is a teacher at a Jewish Day School in Los Angeles, and a voice for social change.
In the wake of allegations by African-American former castmates about her behavior towards them on the set of “Glee,” Lea Michele has issued an apology via Instagram. The allegations were in response to a May 29 Twitter post in support of Black Lives Matter in which Michele wrote, “George Floyd did not deserve this. This was not an isolated incident and it must end.”
That prompted a response from former co-star Samantha Ware. “Remember when you made my first television gig a living hell?!?! Cause I’ll never forget,” Ware tweeted. “I believe you told everyone that if you had the opportunity you would ‘sh-t in my wig!’ amongst other traumatic microaggressions that made me question a career in Hollywood.”
Other “Glee” castmates backed up Ware’s claims including Amber Riley, Alex Newell, and guest star Dabier, who wrote,” “Girl, you wouldn’t let me sit at the table with the other cast members cause ‘I didn’t belong there. F-k you Lea.” The meal-kit company HelloFresh also responded quickly, terminating its relationship with Michele.
“HelloFresh does not condone racism nor discrimination of any kind. We are disheartened and disappointed to learn of the recent claims concerning Lea Michele,” the company posted on Twitter. “We take this very seriously, and have ended our partnership with Lea Michele, effective immediately.”
The actress posted a lengthy Instagram response on June 2.
“I apologize for my behavior and for any pain which I have caused,” Michele wrote in her Instagram post. “One of the most important lessons of the last few weeks is that we need to take the time to listen and learn about other people’s perspectives and any role we have played or anything we can do to help address the injustices that they face. When I tweeted the other day it was meant to be a show of support for our friends and neighbors and communities of color during this really difficult time, but the responses I received to what I posted have made me also focus pacifically on how my own behavior towards fellow cast members was perceived by them.
“While I don’t remember ever making the specific statements and I have never judged others by their background or color of their skin, that’s not really the point, what matters is that I clearly acted in ways which hurt other people. Whether it was my privileged position and perspective that caused me to be perceived as insensitive or inappropriate at times or whether it was just my immaturity and me just being unnecessarily difficult, I apologize for my behavior and for any pain which I have caused we all can grow and change and I have definitely used these past several months to reflect on my own shortcomings.
“I am a couple of months from being becoming a mother and I know I need to keep working to better myself and take responsibility for my actions, so that I can be a real role model for my child and so I can pass along my lessons and mistakes, so they can learn for me. I listen to these criticisms and I am learning and while I am very sorry, I will be better in the future from this experience.”
A friend who recently moved to Los Angeles from London last year commiserated with me: “I came here during raging fires, then coronavirus, and now riots and looting! I’ve gone from a three-month quarantine to a nightly curfew!”
What troubles me most about her observation is the lack of focused accountability for the twin viruses of COVID-19 and pillage. Yes, you can find responsibility for a slow response and blame the president, and you can also lay blame for the high percentage of deaths in New York and California nursing homes on what I believe are the irresponsible and pathetic responses of Governors Newsom and Cuomo.
However, the real culprit of the pandemic remains the communist Chinese government. It lied and concealed the severity of the virus, arrested the physicians who spoke up, then refused access to our researchers. This pandemic, which might have been contained as a Wuhan epidemic, will be with us for years to come in terms of deaths and economic impact. We have lost faith in WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who propagated communist China’s report that there was no human-to-human spread. He touted the now-discredited Imperial College prediction of 2.5% death rate in the U.S. (7 million). As for what now could be aptly renamed as the Centers for Disease Confusion (masks help, masks don’t help), the CDC’s credibility in the minds of many Americans has been severely shaken.
An unarmed black man is handcuffed and held down with excessive force by a cop who ignored his distress, leading to the black man losing consciousness and ultimately dying. The resultant legitimate outcry, protests and demonstrations are overshadowed by looters and arsonists. The destruction of immigrant and African-American businesses that already were teetering at the brink of survival from coronavirus lockdowns is almost as painful to watch as Floyd’s suffocation.
The Prophet Ezekiel proclaimed, “The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.” People of conscience must stand together to castigate and ostracize all evil actors.
As a just society, we must address the injustice of black men being disproportionately targeted and killed by racist police officers (who, thankfully, are a small percentage of police). We must address a justice system that punishes the perpetrators with a fine or light sentence. At the same time, we must focus on the violent culprits who exploit the needed protests as a chance to steal and destroy property. Why not drop blue-dyed water from helicopters to identify and arrest them? Where are the tasers and rubber bullets on looters (not protestors) to send the strong message that we won’t allow arson and looting? Many white-collar criminals, including Wall Street moguls complicit in the market crash of 2008, evade jail and justice. Corrupt FBI executives on the infamous “7th floor” and above violated the law and standards of accepted conduct, and we can legitimately doubt that any of them will receive sentences.
Communist China visits a plague on humanity and denies culpability; will there be a comeuppance? Each of us has the right to sue for loss of life and livelihood. In October 2019, sports celebrity LeBron James said players and owners should refrain from stridently condemning China’s brutal repression of protesters in Hong Kong for fear of a Chinese/NBA reprisal. However, we must speak out. Even if these super-wealthy athletes, owners and leagues lose another multi-million dollar endorsement or deal, silence is unacceptable. Sadly, the sports industry is not alone in catering to the whims of the Communist Chinese regime. Countless corporate behemoths, including Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook, cower at the threats of president for life Xi Jinping. Sadly, as consumers, we, too, have gotten accustomed to $10 slave-labor sweaters and gadgets made in China. Villainy, in our nation and in the actions of repressive regimes, demands a response and we, who have failed to demand accountability, can no longer remain silent.
The Prophet Ezekiel proclaimed, “The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.” People of conscience must stand together to castigate and ostracize all evil actors.
David Baron is rabbi of Temple of the Arts and creator of MidnightConfessions.org.
The virus that threw us all a curve until we anxiously flattened it is still a public health menace. No vaccine. No reliable antibody tests. No scientific certainty.
No matter. The people want out, and governors are slowly giving it to them.
Which means that the news cycle is beginning to spin toward new stories — the tragic racism and riots in Minnesota and across the country and an impending presidential election.
Remember that? Bernie, Buttigieg, Booker, Bloomberg, Biden. An impeachment trial and acquittal of the president. All to kick-off 2020!
The choice between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will be decided in November. Many voters likely will be wearing masks — some safeguarding against bacteria at the ballot box, and the rest in shame.
It will be a momentous but largely uninspiring presidential contest, except for the fact that both candidates suffer from a virus of a different sort, located in their mouths: Biden exhales giant gaffes; Trump insults without any impulse control.
As we anticipate whether the national conventions will comply with social distancing or be held at all, many questions will be directed toward the candidates. For Israel supporters, however, one very important matter has gone unanswered and Biden should be required to address it.
The question hasn’t bedeviled him yet, probably because the angel dust that the media and Jewish liberals sprinkled all over former President Barack Obama apparently dusted off on his trusty vice president. President Obama received a pass on Israel.
Joe Biden, hopefully, will not.
Every police procedural TV show or film has the same obligatory scene. A potential suspect or eyewitness is asked, “Where were you on the night of … ?”
In Biden’s case, the relevant date is Dec. 22, 2016.
What happened that night? Well, a Middle-Eastern Pearl Harbor occurred the very next day, with the United States serving in the role of Japan. Guess who got blindsided? America’s inaction infamously tarnished the “special relationship” between Israel and the United States.
WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 30: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden addresses the 4th National J Street Conference at the Washington Convention Center September 30, 2013 in Washington, D.C. J Street is a nonprofit advocacy group made up primarily of Jews based in the U.S. which says it aims to promote American leadership in ending the Arab-Israeli and Israel-Palestinian conflicts through diplomacy. (Photo by Ron Sachs-Pool/Getty Images)
The U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 2334, with a 14-0 vote and one abstention — the United States. The U.S. has Security Council veto power; the other four nations that also have veto power — China, France, Russia and Great Britain — all voted in favor. In the most extreme language possible, the resolution condemned Israeli settlements as a “flagrant violation” of international law with “no legal validity.” It also referred to all of Jerusalem as “occupied territory” — meaning a return to the border that existed before the Six-Day War, and the implication that even the Western Wall was not part of Israel proper.
Given that Israel captured these territories in a defensive war, the land was never part of a Palestinian state, and that violence against the Jewish state has never subsided, there is no legal, moral or political basis for the assault on Israeli sovereignty that Resolution 2334 represented. (And Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which states, “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies,” simply does not apply to this situation. Jews had a possessory claim to the land. The Israeli government did not transfer anyone — the settlers sprinted toward the territories of their own volition. Finally, neither the West Bank nor the Gaza Strip was part of an actual state contemplated by Article 49.)
The Obama administration was less interested in American Exceptionalism than with American contrition. And it treated Israel as if it, too, had colonial sins to atone for.
If you want to know more so you can rebut your friends (or enemies) when their ignorance and smug virtue gets on your nerves, you can read here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. (I know: You’re welcome.)
Before the passage of Resolution 2334, the official American position on Israeli settlements was that they were unhelpful to the peace process. Never were they deemed “illegal.” And before Resolution 2334, whenever Israel was being ganged up on at the Security Council, which always dominated the agenda of the U.N. in ways that genocides in Congo, Sudan and Syria, and occupations in North Cyprus, Kashmir and Kurdistan never do, the United States could also be relied upon to veto the resolution.
Not this time, however. During the final days of the Obama administration, the United States abstained. It is simply not possible to overstate the magnitude of this betrayal.
“Well, Joe, where were you on the night before that unfortunate vote?”
If in the Situation Room, did you say anything that resembled the following: “Mr. President, if I may: We simply must veto this resolution. First, it is legally wrong on its face. Second, it completely upends the relationship between Israel and the United States. Third, it’s not how we should treat a friend that happens to be the only democracy in the region. Fourth, our silence will be interpreted as if we believe that Israel should return to its former indefensible borders. And lastly, sir, the resolution says nothing about Palestinian rejectionism and violence, which is the main reason why there is no peace and no two states.”
Biden was known for his fierce loyalty to the president. It is unlikely that he responded in this manner, or at all. He knew that his boss, despite the many areas of cooperation and assistance between the two countries, also had a curious fetish when it came to spanking Israel, and especially its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
And he was fixated on Israeli settlements with a passion he couldn’t summon when it came to challenging the tyrannical ayatollahs of Iran, and brutal dictators elsewhere. The Obama administration was less interested in American Exceptionalism than with American contrition. And it treated Israel as if it, too, had colonial sins to atone for.
Trump’s bona fides as a booster of the Jewish state are without equal. Even if reelected, he may still be remembered as the most polarizing, anti-democratic and possibly worst president in American history.
After a long and distinguished career of public service, many fine things can be said of Vice President Biden. But if he was silent on the night of Dec. 22, 2016, then being solidly pro-Israel is, I’m afraid, not one of them — especially when compared with the Middle East track record of President Donald Trump.
Trump’s bona fides as a booster of the Jewish state are without equal. Even if reelected, he may still be remembered as the most polarizing, anti-democratic and possibly worst president in American history. But in Israel, after four-years of unprecedented gift-giving, he can rightly claim to be the stepfather of Zionism. Theodor Herzl might not even mind the shared billing.
In February 2000, I headed to Washington D.C. for a national public policy conference for the Los Angeles chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.
I was thrilled that the opening speaker was Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), one of the last living civil rights leaders and a personal hero. Because I greatly admired his leadership role at such a young age during those turbulent years of the 1960s and 1970s, I had pre-purchased his memoir, “Walking with the Wind” and had packed my favorite black suit with dressy heels to wear at the opening plenum.
I was booked on a direct flight from LAX but mechanical problems grounded the flight. I caught a connecting flight in Chicago and arrived late at night in D.C. Unfortunately, my luggage didn’t make the trip with me. I had no choice but to wear the same pair of old blue jeans I had crossed the country in, along with my once white, now gray beat up sneakers. At least I had a nice blazer. I woke up, jet-lagged and with a headache. I decided to sit at the back of the room and to skip getting my book autographed.
Rep. Lewis was steadfast in his passion about the power of people to come together and make a difference. He shared stories from his own childhood of poverty, the rampant racism in the south and that he was so angry at a system that allowed racial hatred and inhumanity to exist.
He encouraged our family advocates to turn their feelings of profound sadness at seeing a beloved elder lose the ability to take care of themselves and to forget who they were, into a movement, in his words “fueled not just by anger and rage but by moral authority, by the sense of a human righteousness fueled by the spirit.”
He also shared a story that frames his memoir, about a stormy afternoon at his Aunt Seneva’s house, when the only way they could stop a howling storm from picking up the wooden house was by the 15 children holding hands and walking as group toward the corner of the room that was rising.
I ran up afterwards, clutching my book and trying to pull the blazer over my stained jeans. He chuckled when I explained my casual attire, and when I told him I belonged to Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles, he leaned in and smiled widely. “So, tell me,” he said, “How is Rabbi Pressman and his lovely wife, Marjorie doing? Please tell them that I miss eating at the delis with them and I will see them the next time I come to L.A.”
In 1965, Rabbi Jacob Pressman was one of almost 300 Southern Californians who walked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery, Ala., and he had kept up a friendship with Rep. Lewis over the years. I felt such a sense of pride that our emeritus rabbi had joined in that historic event, possibly over the objections of many of his congregants at the time.
Rep. John Lewis speaks at a news conference in the Capitol on the Voting Rights Advancement Act, Dec. 6, 2019. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Life moved on and our second child was diagnosed with global developmental delays at 11 months. It soon became clear that the only way to get all the services needed for a child with special needs such as speech therapy, physical therapy and more was to be an outspoken advocate, to learn the new arcane acronyms and understand program eligibility and guidelines. There were completely new systems to figure out such as regional centers, funded by federal and state dollars along with health insurance companies. Once your child received services, they had to show measurable progress, but if they progressed too fast, they could lose eligibility. If they didn’t make progress, they could lose eligibility and if they “plateaued” they could also lose services.
Getting help and advice from other parents, especially those who had children a bit older, was priceless. No one would make it alone. We all needed each other to succeed. Parents and grandparents talked to each other in waiting rooms, and later online on Listserves and eventually Facebook groups. Without that shared knowledge and information, we would have been left to navigate this strange and confusing landscape on our own.
So, it is at this extremely painful moment in our time. Should we stay in our usual comfort corners, or do we link virtual hands and move forward together, as friends, as advocates and as allies?
The challenge of holding conversations in a polarized and terrified world.
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