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Erin Biba
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Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker. National Geographic, BBC, Scientific American, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others. Hire me to fact check your book. I mostly post about Jewish stuff, disability, social justice, and Star Trek. Jersey girl.
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I'm sure thst unless you follow Jewish media you have seen absolutely nothing about this but today a group of Isreali and US Rabbis were arrested at the Gaza border for demonstrating while attempting to bring a shipment of food to Palestinians. They are part of the group Rabbis for Ceasefire.

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A screenshot from Instagram of a group of Rabbi's wearing white and holding a hand-paintrd sheet written in Hebrew and English that says "let all who are hungry come eat"
A photo of a woman in black being carried away by a group of police
A screenshot from Instagram of Rabbi's dressed in white holding white flags. Text reads "demanding a ceasefire, an end to the siege and starvation of Gaza, and an immediate deal to release all the abductees"
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BKwendykloiber.bsky.social

Michael Chabon posted about it on IG

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ASshinybluething.bsky.social

Protests by Israeli people are absolutely being silenced in American media. It has to be black and white, simplistic, to qualify as news here.

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JDsolenodon.bsky.social

So important. Thank you.

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JBjackiebarbosa.bsky.social

I notice the police are thexsabe everywhere...

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Mclockworkdebris.bsky.social

i wonder what mental gymnastics are necessary to convince oneself that these rabbis are anti-semites.

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ROcmonmaque.bsky.social

Oh darn but Netanyahus speech told me it was America that was out of control. God this shit is so sickening I can’t even joke about it. Can’t America is allowing any of this. The Torres bill? Shit. Nightmare

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MNmessirenicolas.bsky.social

Didn't know about this, thanks.

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EBerinbiba.bsky.social

Hearing that folks have seen this covered in US media that’s great! It means the protest was effective.

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A delegation of dozens of rabbis from the USA and Israel is demonstrating at the Erez crossing at this time demanding a ceasefire, an end to the siege and starvation of Gaza, and an immediate deal to release all the abductees: "Passover is a reminder of our moral and Jewish responsibility to work for freedom for every person, for solidarity and resistance to the reality of suffering and oppression." The rabbis arrived with a shipment of food intended for the residents of the Gaza Strip: "The Israeli government is using hunger in Gaza as a weapon against the 2.3 million Gazans, preventing essential humanitarian aid, and creating a reality of malnutrition and disease."
The demonstration is being held at the initiative of "Rabbis for Ceasefire" - an ad hoc organization of rabbis and rabbinic students from Conservative, Reform and Orthodox communities in the USA, who are working to call for an immediate cease fire, and in collaboration with the Rabbinic Voice for Human Rights (formerly: Rabbis for Human Rights) , JVP (the Jewish Center for Nonviolence), Zochrot Association, Free Jerusalem, If Not Now and JFREJ. Among the participants in the demonstration was the CEO of Rabani Voice for Human Rights, Avi Dabush, a resident of the south, who said: "Our commitment to justice and human rights does not stop at the border. There is no justification for the starvation of two million Gazans. This is our moral and Jewish voice, fighting for the rights of all those who were created in Tselem. We are committed to the commandment "you cannot ignore". We will not ignore what happened to us on October 7th.
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SWstephwhitemi.bsky.social

Wow, you are right, and thanks for sharing.

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Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker. National Geographic, BBC, Scientific American, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others. Hire me to fact check your book. I mostly post about Jewish stuff, disability, social justice, and Star Trek. Jersey girl.
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