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After the signing of the Oslo Accords, fundamentalist rabbis branded Rabin a “traitor” and issued a din rodef against him, an authorization to assassinate him. Benjamin Netanyahu, then leader of the opposition, was the keynote speaker at two protests

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To say that Hamas’ attack was a war crime does not excuse or divert attention from Israel’s history of war crimes, or equate what Hamas did with what Israel has been doing for 75 years.

The Gaza siege has media on the warpath

Israel’s oppression of Palestinians is an atrocity. So was Hamas’s massacre of civilians—and anyone who claims to be on the left should say so.

Only urgent action that targets roots causes can prevent more deaths, injuries, trauma, and grief. The violence can end only with an immediate ceasefire and rapid steps toward equal rights for all.

We call on Israeli and Gaza authorities to cease all violations of international law and release all civilian hostages and bodies. We call on the international community to protect the Palestinian people in Gaza from Israel’s brutal, illegal actions.

Some continue to minimize massacres of Israeli civilians - this only fuels militant Zionism. What could lessen its power, drain it of some of that fuel? True solidarity. Humanism that unites people across ethnic and religious lines.

The Jewish community is now with a profound moral challenge. Even as we mourns our dead in Israel, we must acknowledge and protest the genocide Israel is currently perpetrating in their memory in no uncertain terms.

A former top aide for Bernie Sanders on how Israel’s critics on the political left see the Hamas attack and what this means for deal-making in the region.