"Not in Our Name" Protest Grand Central Station Speaks for me - and I recognize not for others

[Nanjeanne]

Full disclosure - I'm a NY Jew w/family that were killed as members of French resistence. I have two cousins living in Israel. I was horrified and devastated by the terrorist attack by Hamas. I am also horrified and devastated by the Israeli destruction of Gaza. I have never been a supporter of Netanyahu (neither are my cousins living in Israel) and I've been so deeply saddened by the continuing settlements in the West Bank. I've always believed Judiasm is my religion - my faith. It has never been my nationality or my ideology. This is a difficult time and I work through the pain of what is happening every day. But I've being doing that off and on for many years as Israel became more and more right-wing. Many Jews have - and there is a large group of Jews in Israel and a large group of Jews in the US who feel what Netanyahu is doing now will never give Israel what he says he wants - a way to live in peace.

The rise in anti-semitisim and the rise in anti-Muslim - anti-Palestinian violence is frightening and the harsh words from all sides is igniting a fire I'm scared will burn for a very long time.

I can't post on this forum much, particularly now, because I am definitely an outlier to the majority of posters left. I don't have answers but I do know what is happening now is not it. I think there are others left on DU who may feel as torn, conflicted, and saddened as I am. I am proud of those posters who still continue to engage as I know how difficult it is. I wanted to leave a few videos here . . . for those people who need to know they are not alone in our wish for a ceasefire and a way forward to bring peace to a region that is on fire.

Edited with thanks for the instruction on how to post these as tweet/videos.

In US -- these are short videos of elderly Jewish protestors asking for peace as well as a NY Congressperson.

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?s=20|] Remarkable woman "I'm older than Israel"

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?s=20|] NY Congressman

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?s=20|] An elderly woman who needed help getting up from floor because she wanted the policeman (who was so kind to her) to arrest her.

In Israel - this is a short video of Israeli citizens protesting in Tel Aviv.
[link:https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/palestine-israel/2023/10/29/israeli-protesters-demand-ceasefire-as-netanyahu-vows-long-and-difficult-war/|]

We will find a way...