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Thank You, Progressive Jews, for Defending Israel in Difficult Spaces
It’s time to recognize what I’ve long perceived as the thankless world of liberal Jews, who sometimes feel like the sole voice defending Israel among progressive circles. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
“I’m not looking for recognition or a medal for defending Israel against haters on Twitter,” one of my progressive Jewish friends told me last week, “but I hope that some Jews on the right know that I’m getting beaten up pretty badly on social media right now.”
The real sting, according to my friend? “While I was responding to anti-Zionist posts, sometimes as the
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President Biden and Secretary Blinken face a difficult choice (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
On April 19th, the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combatting Antisemitism submitted a letter to President Biden urging him to “expeditiously nominate a qualified Ambassador to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism in order to confront the rising level of anti-Semitism worldwide.” A couple of weeks ago, in honor of Yom Hashoah (Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day), I published a piece with The MirYam Institute, (later syndicated by The Algemeiner) in which I made the same argument.
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Tonight we are reminded yet again of how much the pandemic has disrupted our lives.
Traditionally, we would have been together in the City Council chamber with Councilors and their President, Susan Albright, School Committee members, staff and residents for this State of the City address.
But not this year.
In addition to the rituals of civic life, we ve been forced to reimagine how we celebrate the milestones of birthdays, weddings and graduations and have foregone the pleasures of July 4th at Albemarle or a simple Sunday dinner with extended family.
COVID-19 has stripped us of essentials. We can t comfort loved ones in the hospital or collectively mourn at a funeral. Our hearts break week after week for everyone who has lost a loved one – including the families and friends of 188 of our neighbors who have died with COVID.