以色列主义：美国年轻犹太人的觉醒 | 专题纪录片

半岛电视台英语频道 2024年10月24日
Israelism: The awakening of young American Jews | Featured Documentary

Al Jazeera English  2024年10月24日 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq6J7Q6L0yw

两位从小被灌输无条件支持以色列理念的美国年轻犹太人，在亲眼目睹以色列对待巴勒斯坦人的方式后，人生轨迹发生了改变。他们加入了一场由美国年轻犹太人发起的运动，旨在重新定义犹太教与以色列的关系，并揭示现代犹太身份认同中日益加深的代际分歧。《以色列主义》这部纪录片甚至在2023年10月7日事件发生之前，就已在美国大学校园引发了激烈的辩论。

影片跟随西蒙娜·齐默尔曼（Simone Zimmerman）的脚步，她十几岁时曾访问以色列；以及伊坦（Eitan），他高中毕业后加入了以色列军队。影片记录了他们亲身经历巴勒斯坦人的真实处境，并彻底改变了他们的观点。影片还采访了多位学者和政治活动家，包括诺姆·乔姆斯基（Noam Chomsky）、康奈尔·韦斯特（Cornel West）、拉拉·弗里德曼（Lara Friedman）以及前反诽谤联盟（Anti-Defamation League）主任亚伯·福克斯曼（Abe Foxman）。

参与者指出，美国年轻犹太人所接受的叙事几乎完全抹杀了巴勒斯坦人的存在，这种叙事通过教育和宣传得以传播，有时甚至涉及一些组织免费以色列之旅的团体，而这些旅行的部分资金来自以色列政府。

他们的故事揭示了美国犹太社区的代际分歧：越来越多的年轻犹太人开始质疑他们童年时期在犹太教堂和希伯来语学校老师那里听到的叙事。

这部影片描述了这种叙事对塑造人们对以色列的态度产生了多么深远的影响，这种影响不仅体现在美国，也体现在世界各地。

Israelism: The awakening of young American Jews | Featured Documentary

Al Jazeera English  2024年10月24日 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq6J7Q6L0yw

When two young American Jews raised to support Israel unconditionally witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, it changes their lives. They join a movement of young American Jews campaigning to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel and reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity. Israelism sparked huge debate on American campuses even before the events of October 7, 2023.

It follows Simone Zimmerman, who visited Israel as a teenager, and Eitan who joined the Israeli army after graduating from high school as they discover the reality for Palestinians and radically revise their views. It includes interviews with academics and political activists, including Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Lara Friedman and a former director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abe Foxman.

Contributors suggest the narrative that young American Jews are fed almost entirely erases the existence of the Palestinians through education and advocacy, sometimes involving groups that organise free trips to Israel partially funded by the Israeli government. 

Their stories reveal a generational divide in the American Jewish community as more young Jews question the narratives their synagogues and Hebrew school teachers gave them as children.

This film describes how influential this narrative is in shaping attitudes to Israel, not just in the United States but across the world.

The non-jewish community does not understand our fixation our obsession with Israel good evening and welcome to the 2018 to the 2016

0:3636秒钟2019 tle Birthright Israel winter mega event summer mega

0:4343秒钟event right here in J City the Eternal capital of our

0:5454秒钟people is there anyone here from the United States of America America go what's your name where you from

1:031分钟3秒钟brother I'm Michael and I'm from Detroit Michigan everybody knows somebody who

1:101分钟10秒钟was in the Army Israeli soldiers they're hot they're awesome they're strong

1:161分钟16秒钟they're everything we could all want to be um my name is Han from Brooklyn New York I came around Birthright in 2016 I

1:261分钟26秒钟joined the army 4 months after I finished birth right it's my flight back to America and I'm still in the Army now

1:331分钟33秒钟yeah Army SL that's beautiful

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2:092分钟9秒钟the first time I've been to the United States I met so many nice people Jewish Americans will tell me things like we

2:172分钟17秒钟like you but we don't like Palestinians even though I'm the only Palestinian they know of course around that time I would

2:252分钟25秒钟take it personally but then you come to realize that people do not

2:312分钟31秒钟know they know nothing about Palestinian Palestinians or have no idea about what

2:382分钟38秒钟Palestinians are going

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2:552分钟55秒钟through coming into Palestine for the first time I remember asking people what do you think should I do it and the

3:023分钟2秒钟response that I always got was you know you're going to be

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3:163分钟16秒钟killed as a curious young person like what is this thing that is so horrifying that you can't bear to let me see it

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3:313分钟31秒钟like is it that

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3:493分钟49秒钟bad found in the depths of my family's

3:583分钟58秒钟house I found of my Hebrew Hebrew textbooks from elementary school

4:054分钟5秒钟isim my Israel congratulations to Simone Zimmerman for winning the Israel Jubilee

4:124分钟12秒钟contest February 1998 I was seven I had like a pretty traditional

4:204分钟20秒钟Jewish upbringing I grew up in La I went to a Jewish Day School kindergarten through the end of high

4:284分钟28秒钟school I went to Jewish youth group Jewish Camp I have family in Israel I lived in

4:354分钟35秒钟Israel in high school on an exchange program Israel was just treated like a

4:454分钟45秒钟core part of being a Jew so you did prayers and you did Israel

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5:045分钟4秒钟Israel is something that I feel so passionately about like it's you know it's it's my greatest passion um everything is

5:135分钟13秒钟real I became a Jewish educator after my daughters started Hebrew

5:195分钟19秒钟school I started teaching second grade during the years I did fourth grade

5:265分钟26秒钟also and just to be able to start them on this wonderful journey I mean if you it gets in your

5:355分钟35秒钟blood and we teach Israel at the day school very well we introduce them to the food and to the music and to the culture in

5:445分钟44秒钟addition to the history and the geography figure out which one is the Israeli flag draw a circle around every

5:545分钟54秒钟time you see the symbol of the state of Israel draw your own symbol of the state of Israel

6:006分钟we also celebrated holidays obviously so Hanukkah Israeli Independence all of it

6:076分钟7秒钟together can you separate Israel in in Judaism I don't know I can't you know some people I think can to me it's the

6:146分钟14秒钟same you you can't separate it Israel is Judaism and Judaism is Israel um and that is who I am and that is my identity

6:226分钟22秒钟and I think every single thing that I experienced along my life has melded into that like there was never you know

6:296分钟29秒钟a divide for me I grew up in a conservative Jewish

6:396分钟39秒钟household in Atlanta Georgia Israel was a central part of everything we did in

6:516分钟51秒钟school my elementary middle school as well as my high school both had organized trips to Israel which was touted as one of the most important

6:596分钟59秒钟things you could do do you want to go to Israel

7:057分钟5秒钟too we want go we want to go we want to go we want to go we want to go we want

7:147分钟14秒钟to go when I visited Israel for the first time when I was 8 years old I put a note in the cotel in the Western Wall

7:217分钟21秒钟saying that one day I hope to live in Israel and prosper every every one of our kids

7:317分钟31秒钟should be going over not for 10 days but for a minimum of a semester or a year every time I send somebody over to

7:407分钟40秒钟Israel they come back all of a sudden they feel totally different about who and what they are as Jews when I was a

7:487分钟48秒钟teenager and I went to Israel it was amazing to me to travel in this place where Hebrew was a language that I

7:557分钟55秒钟finally got to speak on the street with people and where Jewish Heroes the streets were named after

8:028分钟2秒钟them we're planting seeds that eventually are going to

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8:118分钟11秒钟Blossom does the average congregant understand that I'm teaching them to become Zionist probably not but it is part of

8:208分钟20秒钟my madness so to speak I learned about Israel as this great miracle of Jewish

8:288分钟28秒钟history for thousands of years we were persecuted and Israel is the place that you can go to be

8:368分钟36秒钟safe my grandfather's family made it to Israel his immediate family were some of the only ones who escaped the

8:458分钟45秒钟Holocaust many American Jews if not most people I know have family or friends that live in

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8:538分钟53秒钟Israel Israel is the insurance policy it's still today a Jew doesn't have to worry

9:009分钟where is he going to go God forbid even here no Holocaust Survivor will say to you it could never happen

9:099分钟9秒钟again uh I was born in Poland 1940 uh not a good place for a Jewish kid to be

9:219分钟21秒钟born my parents were separated my father went through a series of camps

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9:309分钟30秒钟who knows why I survived in a million and a half Jewish children

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9:379分钟37秒钟perished and so Israel became very very significant in my life even though 6,000 mies away I probably visited Israel over

9:479分钟47秒钟a 100 times in my lifetime um you know as we sit now my granddaughter is there for two weeks and in high

9:559分钟55秒钟school I did have many friends in Israel growing up and every time I would visit Israel I

10:0210分钟2秒钟felt closer and

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10:1510分钟15秒钟closer the Jewish summer camps would always bring a big contingency of Israelis to try to drive Israeli culture

10:2310分钟23秒钟within the camp and connect the American Jews to Israeli culture so when I was in high school I went on

10:3210分钟32秒钟this Jewish youth trip to Israel and one of the programs we did was called gadna where we spent a day pretending to be

10:3910分钟39秒钟soldiers in the Israeli Army we wore army uniforms and stuff like that was just sort of a normal part of what our

10:4610分钟46秒钟childhood looked like at summer camp in the middle of the

10:5910分钟59秒钟night they would wake us up and take us out sometimes that was to pull pranks and other times I remember doing

11:0811分钟8秒钟military games using the command pataa sneaking around so anytime the commander

11:1511分钟15秒钟who was one of our counselors said pataa we would all get on the ground and they made a game out of

11:2211分钟22秒钟it simulating being in the military and sneaking around and having to be a part of that

11:3311分钟33秒钟on youth programs that I participated in in Israel you could spend a whole week on an Israeli army base wearing army

11:4011分钟40秒钟uniforms and going through a sort of simulation of basic training and that's where some people you know learn to

11:4711分钟47秒钟shoot guns for the first time it's not just regular military games it's specifically using Israeli

11:5511分钟55秒钟military commands often with Israeli counselors giving them when you're a young kid that really

12:0312分钟3秒钟drills it into you that this is something important and I wanted to be a part of

12:1012分钟10秒钟that we often talked about the ways that you could be a good supporter of the Jewish people one was to join the

12:1712分钟17秒钟Army and the other was to go become an Israel Advocate there were even clubs within

12:2712分钟27秒钟school to work on ad advocating for Israel my high school sent a delegation

12:3312分钟33秒钟to the APAC conference APAC the American Israel public affairs committee they're the people who tell the Congress which

12:4012分钟40秒钟legislation affecting Israel they like and which they don't the bond between the United States and Israel is unbreakable today

12:4912分钟49秒钟unbreakable tomorrow unbreakable forever apek is just the thing that you do

12:5912分钟59秒钟like going to the APAC conference is just sort of seen as like a community event here with us today are leaders

13:0713分钟7秒钟from across the pro-israel community including Abe foxman I learned a long time ago there

13:1713分钟17秒钟is no way you can say no to Abe you know I don't know to what extent what

13:2413分钟24秒钟anybody makes a difference I try to make a difference Jewish Education is still a major

13:3213分钟32秒钟priority for the future and certainly relationship to

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13:3913分钟39秒钟Israel if you were to ask me beond $100 million how would you change the future of American

13:4513分钟45秒钟Jews I would make trips to Israel available to any Jewish kid who wanted to go make that experience they're doing

13:5313分钟53秒钟it now it's called Birthright

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14:1114分钟11秒钟it is up to you to be our soldiers abroad armed with love and knowledge and

14:1914分钟19秒钟conviction ready to sway public opinion in Israel favor learning about the quote unquote

14:2814分钟28秒钟conflict is something that is part of programming as something that you have to learn how to defend Israel from the

14:3614分钟36秒钟lies that other people are saying and you have to be able to tell people the

14:4714分钟47秒钟truth by the time I got to college I had teachers who said to me people hate Israel people are attacking Israel people don't know the truth about Israel

14:5414分钟54秒钟and we're the only people who actually know the truth about Israel if you're a Jewish college student hillo

15:0215分钟2秒钟is your central address for Jewish life on campus as a freshman I remember walking into hillow was one of the first places I went when I got to campus it's

15:1115分钟11秒钟a place where you can go for meals to meet other young Jewish people pro-israel advocacy is a central

15:1915分钟19秒钟part of how they work to engage Jewish young people I'm the director of Engagement in

15:2915分钟29秒钟programs here at Hill L and this campus happens to be very proactive for Israel a lot of people are very passionate a

15:3615分钟36秒钟lot of people love Israel and there's a lot of advocacy here on campus in lots of different ways lots of different groups how did you become involved in

15:4515分钟45秒钟advocacy for Israel I kind of came to H just cuz I was new in campus I didn't really know where to go and I really did

15:5315分钟53秒钟find a lot of friends here I came here on and off but then when I went on the birthright trip and kind of got to know the staff Tom and Jackie a lot better

16:0116分钟1秒钟got to know people at h a lot better and just got to know Israel a lot better I came back and I knew that I wanted to put a lot more of myself into H the

16:1016分钟10秒钟Jewish community on campus and just Israel advocacy in General on Birthright we had Israeli Soldiers with us throughout the entire trip you learn so

16:1816分钟18秒钟much and you learn the reason that they serve it's just a feeling that I don't think any of us could ever imagine except

16:2716分钟27秒钟for my job is is doing Israeli program on campus and that relates to a Jewish events cultural or political um sorry

16:3616分钟36秒钟Israeli events uh uh cultural political I would say name a university in America we probably have a person

16:4416分钟44秒钟there I like to talk about the Army a lot because that's an experience that I lived through and I have a lot of personal

16:5316分钟53秒钟stories there a couple students who said yeah I'm thinking about joining uh the idef one day so my first thing is saying

17:0017分钟them are you sure because uh it's not an easy it's not an easy decision that

17:0717分钟7秒钟being said it would probably end up being the most meaningful experience that you ever go through you're going to

17:1417分钟14秒钟tell your kids stories about it uh yeah one of our former young emissaries

17:2217分钟22秒钟just graduated into the air force I me that's the greatest gift you can give you know and and we actually have had quite a few of our former

17:3017分钟30秒钟students join the IDF amazing I mean just amazing it's these are kids these are 18 19y old it's

17:3917分钟39秒钟like something I've dreamed about doing since I was 7 years old you have like a you find your sense of purpose all my friends are so proud of me and they understand that this is something that

17:4717分钟47秒钟like I have to do almost 10% of my graduating class at my Jewish High School joined the Israeli

17:5617分钟56秒钟Army and I had many friends from my summer camp and youth group who join the Army as

18:0618分钟6秒钟well part of becoming part of Israeli Society is to join the military when I was in high school I

18:1418分钟14秒钟told my parents I don't even need to apply to college because I'm going to just join the Israeli military and make

18:2118分钟21秒钟Aliah and live in Israel I honestly have felt for many

18:2818分钟28秒钟years that I fit in better in Israeli Society than I do in American society even before I moved there and I wanted

18:3618分钟36秒钟to defend what I saw as my country so when I enlisted I was a Mist

18:4518分钟45秒钟which is a a heavy machine gunst during my basic and Advanced Training and then they put me on a light machine

18:5718分钟57秒钟gun we were training for war training for strategy to conquer

19:0419分钟4秒钟hilltops and Conquer Open Spaces one week was focused on Urban Warfare in

19:1219分钟12秒钟close quarters and that was simulated in what looked like Arab

19:1919分钟19秒钟housing after the 7 months of our training we were deployed to the West Bank

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19:3819分钟38秒钟our missions included working in two different checkpoints patrolling villages on foot in full gear and

19:4519分钟45秒钟bulletproof vests we would go into apartment buildings go up to the roof and make

19:5319分钟53秒钟sure that we could be seen so that we could make our presence

20:0120分钟1秒钟felt we wanted them to know that we were watching that was the goal of the

20:0820分钟8秒钟mission we would set up what's called a checkpost which is a checkpoint that is

20:1520分钟15秒钟situated uh at a major intersection at checkpoints we would

20:2220分钟22秒钟stop people create a traffic jam check their IDs check their trunks every day on their way to work or on

20:3120分钟31秒钟their way to visit their family to keep them on their toes

20:3820分钟38秒钟essentially and they being

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20:4520分钟45秒钟Palestinians even though Israel was a central part of everything we did in

20:5220分钟52秒钟school we never really discussed the Palestinians

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21:0321分钟3秒钟it was presented to us that Israel was basically an empty Wasteland when the Jews arrived there

21:1121分钟11秒钟were some Arabs there they said but there was no organized people they had really treated the land

21:1821分钟18秒钟poorly yeah there are there are Palestinians and they just want to kill us all and want us to leave the land

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21:3021分钟30秒钟I I just don't think I had any conception of anything about what it means to be a Palestinian besides that it means that you're a person who kills

21:4021分钟40秒钟Jews or wants to kill Jews it was always presented to us that the Arabs only know

21:5221分钟52秒钟terrorism ever since I came back from the states I I realized that the best way to help people understand the

21:5921分钟59秒钟reality imposed on us by the state of Israel is for them to be

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22:0722分钟7秒钟there the one thing that I want to give the rest of my life for is to help people understand the reality that is going on in

22:1522分钟15秒钟Palestine I grew up all of my life in this occupation I grew up in Bethlehem in

22:2422分钟24秒钟Palestine to be honest I do have my days where I wake up and look in the mirror and ask what is going on and and what can I even do today to change anything

22:3222分钟32秒钟in the situation I remember from the youngest age growing up with my parents always

22:3922分钟39秒钟warning me always telling me not to go out not to go on the street not to play on the street because of the soldiers and the settlers of course like your

22:4722分钟47秒钟first experience with a soldier is terrorizing you know especially because they would invade

22:5422分钟54秒钟your house or your family's house late at night like after they love to work after midnight my first experience with

23:0223分钟2秒钟with soldiers as a child was an experience that put fear uh in

23:0923分钟9秒钟me an American Jewish Soldier talking to my father and yelling at him and shouting at him which of course as a

23:1623分钟16秒钟child you feel very ashamed and insulted and then my father because ironically we are American citizens as well turned to

23:2523分钟25秒钟him in an American accent and asked him where he was from and then the soldier was almost like shocked by this by this

23:3223分钟32秒钟question uh because for his mind you know he wants to say Israel and Jewish people but he's talking to an American now and he told him like from Chicago

23:4123分钟41秒钟and then just this this reality that like even as a child I remember this this this American soldier who just moved here to be part of an army to play

23:5023分钟50秒钟Cowboys and Indians somebody who comes here from New York or from Chicago and claiming that

23:5823分钟58秒钟this land is theirs what makes like an 18 years old American kid who was given 10 days trip

24:0724分钟7秒钟for free in Palestine what made them want to come in and sacrifice his life why would the

24:1524分钟15秒钟Foreigner think it's okay to have Superior rights to the rights of the indigenous population because somebody told them

24:2424分钟24秒钟it's home this is our Land This Is Ours

24:3024分钟30秒钟that's what was conveyed to us it's got to me that people look at

24:3824分钟38秒钟Palestine and Palestinians from the point of view of the oppressor not from the point of view of

24:4524分钟45秒钟the oppressed I think what I knew about who was in Israel before the state

24:5324分钟53秒钟was created is basically there were some Jews always there most Jews in Exile we'd always yearned to go

25:0525分钟5秒钟back the idea that there were Native inhabitants that lived there was not even part of my frame of reference

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25:5425分钟54秒钟this restaurant makes the most delicious humus and Halu in

26:0226分钟2秒钟town the family is not from the town of bam just like my mother's family they were expelled from the city of fiafa back in

26:1226分钟12秒钟1948 I was born to a family of victims of the ethnic lending of

26:2026分钟20秒钟Palestine the ethnic lending that was carried out by the founders of the state of Israel my mother's family were expelled

26:2926分钟29秒钟from the largest Palestinian City pre1 1948 which was the city of

26:3626分钟36秒钟yaat my father was a newborn at that time he was carried by his family they ended up in Bethlehem waiting for the

26:4626分钟46秒钟atrocities to come to an end so they would be able to go back home of course none of those people were

26:5326分钟53秒钟ever allowed back home my father's family was in Jerusalem

27:0027分钟up until 1948 When The War happened he was shot by a sniper and was killed on the spot

27:0827分钟8秒钟uh his children actually dragged his body down and buried it in the courtyard of the house a few days later when the Jewish forces took over that

27:1727分钟17秒钟neighborhood uh they demanded that all the non-jews of that neighborhood be

27:2727分钟27秒钟evicted it was the biggest Mass Exodus percentage wise of a people from their land in modern

27:3627分钟36秒钟history the ethnic lending of Palestine the term neba the

27:4327分钟43秒钟catastrophe is the tragedy or catastrophe that hit almost every single Palestinian family nearly 750,000

27:5327分钟53秒钟victims is traumatizing in almost every possible level

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28:0528分钟5秒钟nearly 78% of the land of Palestine became under the control of the state of

28:1328分钟13秒钟Israel what else was I told about Israel we were told it was a land without a people for a people without a land and

28:2128分钟21秒钟we came back from the ashes of the Holocaust the state of Israel was birthed

28:3028分钟30秒钟the rights of the people that lived here does not exist in that narrative and other than us being an obstacle the NBA

28:3828分钟38秒钟continues it started in 1948 and continues until this

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28:5028分钟50秒钟day in 1967 the state of Israel managed to complete its control over Palestine by

28:5828分钟58秒钟taking over the territory of the West Bank and the territory of

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29:0529分钟5秒钟Gaza okay here's the good stuff more maps of Greater Israel that's just sort of you know the

29:1329分钟13秒钟whole land we're always taught that the whole land was ours I mean you know that's sort of what they teach

29:2229分钟22秒钟you after the 1967 war Israel put a very

29:2929分钟29秒钟forceful very violent military force to dominate and control the lives of the Palestinians that continues until this

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29:5329分钟53秒钟day the intention of Israeli control over the land of Palestine is complete

30:0130分钟1秒钟colonization of the territory building homes for those who were born to Jewish

30:1030分钟10秒钟families and also demolishing the homes of those who were born for Palestinian

30:1930分钟19秒钟families Palestinians kicked out from their homes confiscated by settlers you are stealing my house and if I don't

30:2830分钟28秒钟steal it someone else is going to steal it no no one is allowed to steal it a massive movement to confiscate land

30:3630分钟36秒钟to build settlements to expand settlements before we were even fully trained we were deployed to protect

30:4530分钟45秒钟settlements it was all for the security of the

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30:5630分钟56秒钟settlements this fil the occupied West M with Jo ises living in different colonies and settlements throughout the

31:0431分钟4秒钟region and those individuals are subject to Israeli civil law while you have Palestinians living within the exact

31:1131分钟11秒钟same territory that are subject to an Israeli military

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31:1731分钟17秒钟law when an American citizen comes here he has more

31:2331分钟23秒钟rights than I would have my entire life

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31:4531分钟45秒钟we are in the quote unquote West Bank we're in the quote unquote settlements this is one of the

31:5331分钟53秒钟roadblocks that kind of ensured that the cars get checked to that no terrorists are coming

32:0232分钟2秒钟in I lived in America and then I came back to Israel by myself at the age of 17 to serve in the Army and there are elements what I would

32:1132分钟11秒钟call the jihadist elements that don't accept our presence here but they'll It's just tough for them it's a great vision coming to fruition in our time

32:1932分钟19秒钟and there's nothing going to stop us

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32:3732分钟37秒钟from the day you are born you live in day in day out day in day out without experiencing a day of

32:4732分钟47秒钟Freedom Palestinians have to be forced to live in

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32:5632分钟56秒钟cages so I um I'm Israeli born and raised as a young Israeli growing up my

33:0333分钟3秒钟grandparents lived in the center of Jerusalem the battle for Jerusalem at least 26 people are reported dead people

33:1333分钟13秒钟I knew were injured and killed and from a very young age I knew I'm going to be joining the

33:2133分钟21秒钟military I was never in a Palestinian house till I barge into one in the middle of the night

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33:3533分钟35秒钟one of things that I did routinely was a mission where you are ordered to take over a Palestinian family's home and use

33:4333分钟43秒钟that house as a military point no warrant you don't call in advance it's a military occupation and during my

33:5133分钟51秒钟service there were many moments where I saw myself acting violent ly and there

33:5933分钟59秒钟were moments of um of

34:0734分钟7秒钟shame we can detain any Palestinian just because he looked at us in the wrong way

34:1434分钟14秒钟that's a system that's based on violence oh what are you

34:2034分钟20秒钟doing Che it

34:3134分钟31秒钟we have a security matter you know security it's about security is this security I don't know we'll see this is a thre for you you don't know

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34:4934分钟49秒钟yet when I was stationed in the West Bank one day one of my commanders came and grabbed me and one other Soldier and

34:5634分钟56秒钟said the there is a detainee at the H checkpoint and we need to go pick him up

35:0335分钟3秒钟and bring him to the Detention Center that's in the base when we got there the Palestinian

35:1035分钟10秒钟detainee who was maximum in his early 20s was sitting on the curb with his

35:1735分钟17秒钟hands tied behind his back with zip ties and blindfolded we got to the Detention

35:2535分钟25秒钟Center within the base and right outside di there were about eight soldiers waiting for us they saw us come they grabbed the

35:3535分钟35秒钟detainee from our hands and threw him to the ground while he's still blindfolded in hands tied behind his back and they

35:4335分钟43秒钟started kicking him for a good few minutes I was responsible for this man's

35:5535分钟55秒钟well-being I was responsible to bring him from the checkpoint to the Detention Center that was my job and right outside

36:0436分钟4秒钟the fence of the Detention Center they grab him from me and they start beating him

36:1136分钟11秒钟I I felt responsible but my commander wasn't saying anything so how could I say

36:1836分钟18秒钟anything the entire time that this was happening a military police officer was standing just inside the fence watching

36:2636分钟26秒钟and smoking a cig as soon as these guys were done kicking this Palestinian man the military police

36:3636分钟36秒钟officer tossed his cigarette he came brought him inside the detention

36:4436分钟44秒钟center and I didn't even speak up I didn't speak

36:5136分钟51秒钟up and that's just one of many stories uh that I have from My Time in the West Bank

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37:0237分钟2秒钟it took many years for me to really come to terms with my part in

37:1037分钟10秒钟it only after I got out of the army did I begin to realize that the stuff that I

37:1837分钟18秒钟did in the daytoday just working in checkpoints patrolling Villages that in

37:2337分钟23秒钟and of itself was immoral Palestinians in the West Bank even

37:3137分钟31秒钟though their lives are controlled by the state of Israel from morning noon and night are not even theoretically citizens of the country in which they

37:4037分钟40秒钟live you see in some ways what non-democracy looks like up close when people look at the West Bank

37:4937分钟49秒钟today and say this is an aparti system it's not just throwing out a word a Palestinian lives under a different legal system than an Israeli

37:5837分钟58秒钟settler living next

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38:0638分钟6秒钟door me my anyone who you know sees these facts

38:1438分钟14秒钟on the grounds or speaks to Palestinians would understand that this is a process of settler colonization of an apari

38:2238分钟22秒钟regime I remember Crossing that checkpoint into Bethlehem and before this I had been very much opposed to ever using the word apartheid but seeing

38:3038分钟30秒钟the sort of Night and Day difference just by Crossing this wall changed that for me in an

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38:4938分钟49秒钟instant serving in serving in the Israeli Army is obviously one way of supporting Israel but there's also

38:5638分钟56秒钟another modern battle that is happening on campuses each and every single day and you are standing in the front of it

39:0439分钟4秒钟and um I mean the Israeli government Israeli people thank you for that and that's why

39:1139分钟11秒钟they put me here probably and I thank you for that so we need PR you uh there's a lot of PR to be

39:1939分钟19秒钟made this University thank God is fairly apolitical but I've heard all over the

39:2739分钟27秒钟place how universities are these hot beds of anti-Semitic and anti-israel

39:3739分钟37秒钟work I remember very vividly I was sitting in my dorm room with a friend of mine we got a phone call that an anti-israel bill was being introduced in

39:4539分钟45秒钟the student government we bolted on the way called our parents both got sent talking points

39:5839分钟58秒钟and then we went into this Student Government

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40:1340分钟13秒钟meeting everybody please take seat the student Senate at the University of California Berkeley calling on campus

40:2240分钟22秒钟officials to divest from companies that Supply weapons that Israel uses in its occupation of the Palestinian territories you are siding with the

40:3040分钟30秒钟Palestinians on the Israeli Palestinian conflict there's just no question about it I just knew it was this bad thing

40:3740分钟37秒钟that I had to fight it is anti-Semitism it is you are trying to make me feel marginalized on my own

40:4540分钟45秒钟campus and I remember all of us going well uh you shouldn't boycott Israel because uh it's applying a double

40:5340分钟53秒钟standard and you shouldn't boycott Israel because it's unfair to single out Israel please I beg of you I beg you please to

41:0341分钟3秒钟have compassion and to remember that we are alienating students and I am devastated by spell I am a human

41:1141分钟11秒钟being I still remember you have these Palestinian students who get up and said you know Jewish students you are crying

41:1941分钟19秒钟about feeling silenced and marginalized you know my aunts and cousins didn't sleep for weeks while bombs were falling overhead and Gaza

41:2741分钟27秒钟what do you have to say to that if divestment is hostile then then where do we begin to describe the hostility of a military

41:3541分钟35秒钟occupation I was thrown into all these conversations where people were throwing around all these words that I'd never heard before occupation settlement

41:4341分钟43秒钟apartheid ethnic cleansing I just never heard anyone use any of these terms before I thought I knew so much about

41:5141分钟51秒钟Israel but I didn't really know what anybody was talking about when they were talking about all these things

42:0242分钟2秒钟I remember coming to Hillel and saying why aren't we answering Palestinian students questions I felt really embarrassed by

42:1042分钟10秒钟it because mostly I felt like we weren't doing a good job refuting their arguments do we not have an actual counterargument besides like rockets

42:1842分钟18秒钟double standard anti-Semitism I people people I I couldn't get an answer from anybody and

42:2642分钟26秒钟that was disturbing for me I mean there are these people called Palestinians who think that Israel

42:3342分钟33秒钟wields all this power over their lives and don't have rights don't have

42:4042分钟40秒钟water what like literally what is this how is this happening how do I how do I respond to

42:4842分钟48秒钟it people that have a problem with Israel there's a good chance they're misguided somewhere or another everyone

42:5542分钟55秒钟have the freedom in Israel like you can have any religion you could do whatever you want in Israel but only in Israel in the Middle East a lot of like it's a lot

43:0443分钟4秒钟of it's a lot of misinformation some of it comes from misinformation some of it comes from

43:1043分钟10秒钟ignorance some of it comes from lies and it's very hard to deal with that in any kind of a of a positive way when they're

43:1743分钟17秒钟coming from such a place of not understanding what the reality the situation when they just have this in their in their head all this

43:2443分钟24秒钟misinformation and all these lies I mean somehow Pro Palestinian has become pro- social

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43:3443分钟34秒钟justice I wanted to know answers from within my own community and nobody could answer those questions for

43:4043分钟40秒钟me how is it that I I'm like the best the Jewish Community has to offer I've been through all the trainings all the programs and I don't know what the

43:4843分钟48秒钟occupation is I I don't know what the settlements are eventually it got to a point where I

43:5643分钟56秒钟found my s wanting answers to the questions the Palestinian students were asking and so it led me on a process of

44:0544分钟5秒钟trying to go figure those things out for myself what is this thing that is so horrifying that you can't bear to let me

44:1444分钟14秒钟see it the summer after my freshman year I

44:2244分钟22秒钟went to Palestine and I knowingly crossed line for the first

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44:4544分钟45秒钟time I don't think I realize the extent to which what I would come to see on the ground would really Shock Me and horrify

44:5344分钟53秒钟me so if you look at your Maps um we're standing again right before um is going to turn red just so we here

45:0245分钟2秒钟where the soldiers are standing um so just look behind you guys this is a block of houses the people

45:0945分钟9秒钟living in all these apartments here were not allowed to walk on this main road so this was what like a a red Road a sterilized Road and imagine if you're family living here you can't open the

45:1845分钟18秒钟front door of your house and walk out I listening to Palestinian students talking about what it was like being

45:2745分钟27秒钟beaten at a checkpoint and sitting down with a Palestinian family and hearing their story about being displaced by

45:3545分钟35秒钟Israeli settlers and even when we fix the water

45:4245分钟42秒钟wells and and we try to cultivate the rainwater to come into the water wells even those things are being attacked by

45:5045分钟50秒钟the settlers either they throw throw stones in them or they throw chemicals in them or they throw dead animals in

45:5845分钟58秒钟the wells so he's saying first he welcomes you and you know thank you very much for

46:0546分钟5秒钟coming especially because you're Jewish the area here is populated by

46:1246分钟12秒钟Palestinian Farmers Supreme Court in Israel ruled that they're allowed to live in the caves that are here they're not allowed

46:2046分钟20秒钟to build anything today the Civil Administration and the Army came and demolished some of

46:2746分钟27秒钟the tents here something is deeply wrong here and

46:3446分钟34秒钟it's it's breaking my

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46:4146分钟41秒钟heart what we've been told is that the only way that Jews can be safe is if Palestinians are not safe

46:4946分钟49秒钟and I guess the more I learned about that the more I came to see that

46:5846分钟58秒钟as a

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47:0547分钟5秒钟lie so this is the checkpoint that divides uh Jerusalem from

47:1147分钟11秒钟[Music]

47:1347分钟13秒钟Bethlehem Palestinians definitely cannot drive on this road so you can see that we're basically driving with walls on

47:2047分钟20秒钟both sides of us right now

47:4047分钟40秒钟Dy you want to go to like the M square or where do you want to go we're in your head

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47:5447分钟54秒钟man this is this is my barber

48:0248分钟2秒钟[Music]

48:0348分钟3秒钟believe as someone who came to see Jerusalem or Tel Aviv as places that I should imagine as home I remember coming

48:1048分钟10秒钟into the West Bank for the first time and actually seeing this place as someone else's home this is a normal place where people are just trying to

48:1848分钟18秒钟live their lives for me to get to Jerusalem I have to think of first of all having the

48:2648分钟26秒钟permit getting to the checkpoint waiting in lines for the checkpoint getting to the soldiers at the checkpoint the soldier

48:3348分钟33秒钟might do anything to me at that point including sending me back and then crossing the checkpoint and then having to take public transportation I just the

48:4048分钟40秒钟fact that I cannot drive right as a Palestinian I cannot drive in Jerusalem or anywhere in Israel right so we drove

48:4748分钟47秒钟here today and yes and if I'm at home by 10: p.m. and I get caught on the other side then I could be detained I could lose my permit for good I could be put

48:5648分钟56秒钟in prison I could be beaten up by soldiers who knows what will happen to

49:0349分钟3秒钟me almost any rooftop you stand on in Bethlehem you look one way or the other

49:0949分钟9秒钟you will see a settlement built around you I started coming here in 2010 I

49:1749分钟17秒钟heard you speak to a group about anti-Semitism and inherited trauma and started thinking a lot about what it

49:2349分钟23秒钟means to challenge my community around the Deep ingrained traumas that are totally stopping us from any sort of

49:3249分钟32秒钟movement on this issue my first learning experience was uh when I was invited to go to aitz on a

49:4049分钟40秒钟bearing witness Retreat I actually say in alitz I discovered one of the main reasons why

49:4749分钟47秒钟this conflict exists today which is this inherited trauma that exists in the Jewish Community where the feeling is that as

49:5549分钟55秒钟Jews were always attacked we've always been attacked we will always be attacked and therefore the only way to maintain

50:0350分钟3秒钟oursel is to create this very suppressive security mechanism that

50:1050分钟10秒钟would prevent this from happening again I mean that's what I learned yeah that that's what I

50:1950分钟19秒钟heard what what is important for many of the Israeli Jews and the Jews from around the world we talk to is is the

50:2650分钟26秒钟simp full recognition and acknowledgement of the story and that story is where the healing work begins

50:3450分钟34秒钟to happen as an activist I think for many

50:4250分钟42秒钟activists what keeps us going is our ability to be able to look towards the future I I really believe that there is

50:5150分钟51秒钟an emerging Awakening within the American Jewish community I've had even some American Jews who

51:0051分钟come here and they say we came to Israel and we left from

51:0851分钟8秒钟Palestine for American Jews coming here and listening to us in hearing us and seeing our humanity and understanding that we are not just out sitting in

51:1751分钟17秒钟bunkers planning the next attack against Israelis that we do have a desire to live in peace and to have our freedom and to they walk in our streets and they

51:2651分钟26秒钟eat in our restaurants and like we I mean it's crazy that I have to say this that we are real human beings that just want to survive and live and like all

51:3451分钟34秒钟other people in this world the moment they see this and experience this for themselves it

51:4251分钟42秒钟creates something in them it shifts something in them what they do with it when they go back it becomes their responsibility

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52:0552分钟5秒钟I came home and spoke out and I think initially it was very painful and shocking for a lot of people are I had friends from high

52:1452分钟14秒钟school and from college who didn't know how to speak to me at the beginning because these conversations were forbidden for us growing

52:2152分钟21秒钟[Music]

52:2352分钟23秒钟up I've grown up very much as a product of this Mass mobilization across the community to ensure that young people

52:3252分钟32秒钟stay engaged in pro-israel politics for most people I know who

52:4052分钟40秒钟actually took the time to see with their own eyes what was happening it very quickly challenges everything we've been

52:4952分钟49秒钟taught it's very painful because it is so intimately bound up with the identity

52:5552分钟55秒钟of the community there have always been Jews who have spoken out for Palestinian rights and

53:0453分钟4秒钟more and more people are willing to take off their blinders looking at this reality saying this is intolerable

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53:2953分钟29秒钟I continued to meet more and more young people like me who were having similar

53:3553分钟35秒钟experiences and it made me realize that I was part of a bigger story of something that was happening not just to

53:4253分钟42秒钟me but to young people around the country we decided to bring the crisis

53:5053分钟50秒钟of American Jewish support from Israel to the doorsteps of Jewish institutions to force that conversation in

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54:2454分钟24秒钟public uh first of all all my friends at P stopped talking to me I've lost many childhood friends over

54:3154分钟31秒钟this also many friends have like come along politically with me over the years many in my family have also many in my

54:3854分钟38秒钟family also deeply disagree with

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54:4454分钟44秒钟me every time I've protested outside of a Jewish communal event of some kind I have seen a friend a family friend a parent of a friend on the other side of

54:5354分钟53秒钟the barricade we're literally talking about parents and

55:0155分钟1秒钟children young Jews they go to the Jewish federations they go to the reform movement they go to their day schools

55:0855分钟8秒钟and they say you mobilized me to be a a soldier for Israel but I had been

55:1655分钟16秒钟completely misled we are also in a moment when there is the possibility of of some kind

55:2355分钟23秒钟of alternative I see it hundreds of times over and over again and those hundreds speak for thousands and they went to the

55:3255分钟32秒钟Jewish camps and they went to the day schools and they went to the synagogue Hebrew Schools they're really really angry at

55:4055分钟40秒钟the way they were educated and the way that they were indoctrinated uh about these issues and justifiably so the

55:5055分钟50秒钟indoctrination is so severe it's almost hard to have a conversation about

55:5755分钟57秒钟it it's heartbreaking it is heartbreaking our community right now

56:0556分钟5秒钟has to Grapple with our complicity and we want to welcome you to the Jewish

56:1556分钟15秒钟prot Jewish opinion is split some Jewish groups vocally oppose Israel's military

56:2256分钟22秒钟policies more than a thousand Jewish activists descended on Washington DC Sunday to protest APAC so we tell some

56:3056分钟30秒钟of our more conservative brothers and sisters on the inside that you do not represent the best of the Jewish

56:3856分钟38秒钟prophetic tradition and we here to B

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56:4356分钟43秒钟winess it's a new day now I mean you got a number of young Jewish brothers and sisters who are undergoing moral and

56:5056分钟50秒钟spiritual awakening they're deeply concerned about the suffering of Palestinians and they come from a people who who have been hated but they don't

56:5856分钟58秒钟want to see the cycle of hate perpetrated even by Jews

57:0557分钟5秒钟themselves Israel it's been part of my life since early childhood within the Jewish Community oh

57:1457分钟14秒钟there's been a striking change and Israel is well aware of it human will

57:2157分钟21秒钟and commitment can change things my name is Talia this is the first time I am using my full real name

57:3057分钟30秒钟um to stand in solidarity with Palestinians and I never thought in my life that I would be standing with this

57:3757分钟37秒钟many Jews for Palestine I'm a rabbi as long as Palestinian lives are treated as disposable our house as a

57:4557分钟45秒钟people is not in order tomorrow we show up and we March

57:5257分钟52秒钟following the leadership of Palestinians

58:1058分钟10秒钟congresswoman Rashida I am the only palestinian-american member of Congress now how many Palestinians have to die

58:1958分钟19秒钟for their lives to matter life under apartheid strips Palestinians of their human dignity

58:2658分钟26秒钟how many more decades do they need to endure this subjugation before there is a shift in this unreasonable status quo and what would you

58:3458分钟34秒钟recommend I would recommend Freedom the real challenge is trying to

58:4358分钟43秒钟keep that moral and spiritual Dimension strong cuz anytime you cut Against the

58:5258分钟52秒钟Grain you're going to catch hell

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59:2059分钟20秒钟anti-occupation Jews are blocking Damascus gate

59:2759分钟27秒钟and the occation Israel jucky bush

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59:5759分钟57秒钟I I don't think it's as serious as it's made up to be okay they're they're entitled that's fine okay I don't think

1:00:041小时4秒钟they represent much I think they're a little super naive I think the most American Jews even though they have

1:00:111小时11秒钟different views on settlements or occupation I think that's still a decision at the end of the day they're going to leave for the Israelis to make

1:00:191小时19秒钟as long as Israel is under threat and as strong as it is and as Dynam dnamic as

1:00:261小时26秒钟it is it's still under threat from its neighbors and 100,000 missiles we

1:00:331小时33秒钟postpone that philosophical debate to another

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1:00:471小时47秒钟time Palestinians are so dehumanized in the community that it's really hard for people to figure out how

1:00:551小时55秒钟to even understand Palestinians legitimate rights and claims to the

1:01:021小时1分钟2秒钟land Palestinians gathered for protest as the Israeli Gaza border they're demanding the right to return to lands

1:01:091小时1分钟9秒钟from which they were forced out in 1948 at least 55 Palestinians died Monday during mass

1:01:171小时1分钟17秒钟protests Israeli troops fired on the demonstrators

1:01:331小时1分钟33秒钟need look at the more recent Gaza demonstrations ask yourself the question if the Mexicans stood at the Border in

1:01:411小时1分钟41秒钟March a million Mexicans or 20,000 Mexicans what would America do you know first they would try tear gas and then it would not and eventually would have

1:01:501小时1分钟50秒钟to shoot there are a lot of Jewish young people who see a Jewish establishment

1:01:581小时1分钟58秒钟that is racist that is nationalistic Israel is in the mid Middle East and not the Midwest so the neighbors are not necessarily the Jones

1:02:071小时2分钟7秒钟or The Smiths I don't want war but it's been a p on us so we should do right and defeat the

1:02:161小时2分钟16秒钟terrorist we don't want to be a part of that but we are actually building an alternative

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1:02:281小时2分钟28秒钟I've been involved in this work for about a decade I was seen as a face of this

1:02:351小时2分钟35秒钟young growing Jewish resistance to the American Jewish establishment it made perfect sense to

1:02:431小时2分钟43秒钟me that Bernie would hire someone like me as a Jewish Outreach coordinator within about 48 Hours of

1:02:501小时2分钟50秒钟being on the campaign the attack started rolling in these old men from the Jewish

1:02:591小时2分钟59秒钟establishment came out to say you know that I was dangerous that I was a threat a journalist wrote an article

1:03:071小时3分钟7秒钟about me the headline was Bernie Sanders new Jewish Outreach coordinator is an outspoken critic of Israeli

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1:03:181小时3分钟18秒钟occupation the next headline that I found out about when I walked into work was Abe foxman calls on Sanders to fire

1:03:251小时3分钟25秒钟new Jewish Community liaison for quote anti-israel comments on Thursday the Sanders campaign suspended its new National

1:03:341小时3分钟34秒钟Jewish Outreach coordinator Simone Zimmerman two days after she was

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1:03:421小时3分钟42秒钟hired so as far as I'm aware this was Abe foxman's first comment in public since his retirement from the ADL and uh

1:03:511小时3分钟51秒钟he came out of retirement to defend the world from the great threat of Mo Zimmerman it hurts me for a Jewish kid

1:04:001小时4分钟to stand up there and say justice for the Palestinians are not saying Justice for the Israelis troubles me hurts me bothers me

1:04:091小时4分钟9秒钟means we failed we failed in educating and explaining Etc when we talk about we're losing the

1:04:191小时4分钟19秒钟kids we're not we lost them Birthright participant staged a prot test walk out five of us will be

1:04:271小时4分钟27秒钟leaving to learn about the occupation um from the perspective of Palestinians and IDE of soldiers you cannot be a tyrant

1:04:351小时4分钟35秒钟on this bus get off the bus

1:04:461小时4分钟46秒钟goap we're seeing that uh many Millennials are becoming dis disenchanted with

1:04:521小时4分钟52秒钟Israel and um I take a very approach on this I say to them we need to love Israel even

1:05:001小时5分钟moreth that's our plan no

1:05:111小时5分钟11秒钟free it it means that we who are the older generation have much more work to

1:05:171小时5分钟17秒钟do this whole communal obsession with defending Israel has basically warped into seeing someone like me as a threat

1:05:261小时5分钟26秒钟to the community the word that I used to hear a lot was self-hating Jew like the only way that a Jewish

1:05:351小时5分钟35秒钟person could possibly care about the humanity of Palestinians is if you hate

1:05:451小时5分钟45秒钟yourself let's see what I find in here you are a self-loathing Jew go kill

1:05:531小时5分钟53秒钟yourself with Jews Like You who needs ignorant racist bigot Arabs you work against our people you're an

1:06:011小时6分钟1秒钟anti-semitic Jew you've been working for the enemy Simone Zimmerman another member of The Lunatic anti-semitic

1:06:111小时6分钟11秒钟farle there's always been this argument of oh you can't criticize Israel criticizing Israel feeds anti-Semitism

1:06:191小时6分钟19秒钟criticizing Israel helps the enemies of Israel as more and more American Jews are speaking out in support of

1:06:261小时6分钟26秒钟Palestinian Freedom now they just say instead we're overt anti-semites we hate all Jewish people or even worse that we're not

1:06:341小时6分钟34秒钟Jewish at all we are attacked as being not really Jewish if we are not supportive of

1:06:411小时6分钟41秒钟Israel and that's where you start seeing just the blanket delegitimization of an entire sector of American Jewish

1:06:491小时6分钟49秒钟Society focusing on this so-called new anti-Semitism and then came the new anti- iism which was the

1:06:571小时6分钟57秒钟anti-Semitism relating to Israel what what some have said the Israel became the Jew of the Nations uh in the same

1:07:051小时7分钟5秒钟way that historically uh you know whatever was permitted for everybody else was not permitted for the Jew now Israel was singled

1:07:141小时7分钟14秒钟out so many of the self-appointed leaders of our community have been trying to equate the idea of supporting Palestinian rights itself with

1:07:231小时7分钟23秒钟anti-Semitism this is about anti-israel anti-semitic attitudes classic new anti-Semitism the extreme

1:07:301小时7分钟30秒钟left has a long history of anti-Semitism of of anti-israel hatred how stupid have they been for all these years voting for

1:07:391小时7分钟39秒钟Obama and other anti-semites like him unwillingness to Grapple with

1:07:461小时7分钟46秒钟Palestinian suffering is putting a lot of American Jews in a really dangerous and sad

1:07:531小时7分钟53秒钟position how far will Jewish Americans go in the effort to quash pressure on

1:08:001小时8分钟Israel you know how far will people go it's hard to see how far they won't go if this is where things are

1:08:111小时8分钟11秒钟today at the end of the day pro Israel leaders want to be in the room with the people in power they will do anything to preserve

1:08:211小时8分钟21秒钟unconditional support for Israel thank you when I become president the days of

1:08:301小时8分钟30秒钟treating Israel like a second class citizen will end on day

1:08:391小时8分钟39秒钟one history is not going to judge us kindly I'd like to say that we were blessed by heaven with Donald Trump

1:08:491小时8分钟49秒钟being elected president of the United States we should pray that they should remain in office and that he should continue to do the great things he does

1:08:581小时8分钟58秒钟on behalf of the United States of America and on behalf of Israel we're seeing like a horrifying

1:09:051小时9分钟5秒钟culmination of what support of Israel at all costs has led to disregarding any lesson of History

1:09:131小时9分钟13秒钟disregarding any sort of

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1:09:191小时9分钟19秒钟morality the great irony of having this be where we are today within the Jewish community is that there actually is resurgent

1:09:271小时9分钟27秒钟anti-Semitism the kind that I think my generation and the generations that have come after me never thought we'd see in our

1:09:361小时9分钟36秒钟lifetimes hail Trump hail our people hail victory in the US couple of things have

1:09:441小时9分钟44秒钟been happening and then we we'll go to Trump trumpism it's not question is he a bigot isn't I don't think he's a bigot I think he is what he is I don't think

1:09:521小时9分钟52秒钟he's a racist I don't think he's an anti-semite I think you can call them all kinds of

1:09:591小时9分钟59秒钟things the community has spent so much time attacking anyone who criticizes Israel

1:10:061小时10分钟6秒钟when they're actual threats to our community that's LED our communal institutions to basically be silent in

1:10:141小时10分钟14秒钟the face of rising white nationalism Jews will not replace us will not replace us Jews will not

1:10:241小时10分钟24秒钟replace us the way that we talk about anti-Semitism isn't about protecting Jews it's about protecting Israel how dangerous is that at this

1:10:331小时10分钟33秒钟moment with the rise of anti-Semitism and often when American

1:10:421小时10分钟42秒钟politicians are asked about anti-Semitism they talk about their support for

1:10:491小时10分钟49秒钟Israel support for Israel today is actually replacing what it means to be a

1:10:561小时10分钟56秒钟Jew these people have basically decided that support for Israel is more important than the safety of

1:11:041小时11分钟4秒钟Jew we're not going to say anything about the spreading of these anti-semitic conspiracy theories we have seen a tremendous

1:11:131小时11分钟13秒钟amount of this use of vile anti-semitic tropes the thread talks about a Jewish plot to enslave people in the United

1:11:201小时11分钟20秒钟States anti-semitic flyers steeped in covid-19 conspiracies saying every single aspect of the co agenda is Jewish

1:11:291小时11分钟29秒钟that's the way the Jews work they're they are deceivers they plot they lie they do

1:11:371小时11分钟37秒钟whatever they have to do the gunman told a SWAT officer that

1:11:471小时11分钟47秒钟he wanted all Jews to die and that they were committing genocide against his people

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1:12:051小时12分钟5秒钟it's a profoundly sad moment and I think it's a tipping moment these anti-semitic nightmares

1:12:141小时12分钟14秒钟that we all like it's all coming to life in front of our eyes I can't help but think about all

1:12:231小时12分钟23秒钟the American Jewish organ gations that have spent the last decade pouring millions of dollars into smearing and

1:12:321小时12分钟32秒钟marginalizing human rights Advocates Jewish Palestinian and not trying to Brand Palestinian protest as

1:12:411小时12分钟41秒钟anti-semitic when there were neo-nazis trying to kill us in our

1:12:511小时12分钟51秒钟synagogues my parents and grandparents generation grew up in World in which Jews were not

1:12:581小时12分钟58秒钟safe they invested so much in the idea that Jews could only be safe through

1:13:061小时13分钟6秒钟Israel but our safety and our security is actually bound up in the safety and

1:13:131小时13分钟13秒钟the security of all people the most powerful pro-israel Lobby in the country are now donating money to Republican

1:13:211小时13分钟21秒钟politicians who either incited or continue to support the riers who stormed the capital on January

1:13:321小时13分钟32秒钟6th that's part of a politics of solidarity and it feels totally morally coherent and morally urgent to support

1:13:411小时13分钟41秒钟freedom and dignity for all people in all the places that we live Palestinians have already been

1:13:501小时13分钟50秒钟telling us this for decades so guys here is the the world

1:13:571小时13分钟57秒钟but the world is finally coming to catch up to continue the building in this

1:14:041小时14分钟4秒钟event for me I would say if anybody has any influence on Israeli policy and I say this with a big F it is the American

1:14:131小时14分钟13秒钟Jewish Community the American Jewish Community have the potential to have the greatest

1:14:201小时14分钟20秒钟influence in shifting our reality outside of this land for many people around the world when they see the voice

1:14:271小时14分钟27秒钟of the Jewish Community rise and protest against this occupation it will allow other voices to say yes we could also

1:14:351小时14分钟35秒钟have a voice in it as well now we're doing joint work in trying to end this occupation and bringing peace and Justice into this

1:14:441小时14分钟44秒钟land the most inspiring experiences I had are with Jewish Americans that come in and take a stand

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1:14:561小时14分钟56秒钟we're going to hear tonight a number of personal stories at some point you guys decided to quote unquote break the silence and

1:15:051小时15分钟5秒钟I'm interested was there a particular moment that led you to this 2008 I I joined the military in

1:15:141小时15分钟14秒钟America we have this concept of innocent until proven guilty there is no innocent Palestinian according to the Army that's so not true in occupied

1:15:231小时15分钟23秒钟territory down please I mean come on you're lying that's a lie she said there's no it's not a lie what

1:15:301小时15分钟30秒钟we're talking about is not giving Palestinians the right that we of Israelis have and that's a part

1:15:381小时15分钟38秒钟time to go against the grain is not an easy thing to do so I did not speak about my

1:15:471小时15分钟47秒钟experiences in the occupation publicly until very recently I was afraid that I would be

1:15:541小时15分钟54秒钟demonized I've seen friends of mine be demonized for speaking out about the same

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1:16:021小时16分钟2秒钟things the first time I ever spoke publicly about my experiences I cried

1:16:101小时16分钟10秒钟the whole time that I was speaking it's gotten a little bit easier to talk about since then because I have

1:16:181小时16分钟18秒钟taken the time to process it but that doesn't mean it's easy anytime I talk about these experiences

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1:16:271小时16分钟27秒钟but we can't wait any

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1:16:411小时16分钟41秒钟longer I've been longing for this Jewish conversation for 17

1:16:481小时16分钟48秒钟years we're here today um to talk about some things that are often confus

1:16:551小时16分钟55秒钟impossible in the Jewish Community these conversations can happen we are not risking our Jewish history

1:17:021小时17分钟2秒钟you are not closing a door to the rest of your Jewish life all that we have to risk is our

1:17:091小时17分钟9秒钟denial I can start my high school had an Israel studies class all about when you get to college and people start telling

1:17:171小时17分钟17秒钟you about Israel being in a partied State this is how you respond from my like summer camp and my youth movement one of the core tenants of it was the

1:17:251小时17分钟25秒钟Jewish State needed to be built and just no questioning of what price we were really willing to pay uh or willing to

1:17:311小时17分钟31秒钟make Palestinians pay is in Israeli the Palestinian identity itself is not something I had to to learn that it

1:17:381小时17分钟38秒钟exists right so slowly as I came to learn that the occupation exists I

1:17:441小时17分钟44秒钟started learning that there is another narrative we're here to talk about the history that's often referred to as the

1:17:531小时17分钟53秒钟Naka 700 50,000 people displaced from their homes at least 400 Villages undone

1:18:011小时18分钟1秒钟in their entirety the colonization is also ongoing the ongoing nakba the continued

1:18:101小时18分钟10秒钟not just the historical but the continued ethnic cleansing of Palestinians I have been blessed to witness the ways that Palestinian

1:18:181小时18分钟18秒钟Society continue to find ways to thrive but we can't deny that there has been catastrophe and that it's been catastrophic the scale of

1:18:261小时18分钟26秒钟loss we're really here to teach each other but I think nothing's as important as action because we are talking about

1:18:331小时18分钟33秒钟ongoing displacement people might tell you that if you stand up for Palestinian rights that you aren't really Jewish that

1:18:421小时18分钟42秒钟you're maybe a self-hating Jew as a rabbi what I see when I look at the work of solidarity is a long chain of Jewish

1:18:511小时18分钟51秒钟history this chain of people of ancestors and texts and traditions that are about Justice and fighting for it

1:18:591小时18分钟59秒钟Jewish tradition tells us to Envision a world where all people are safe and free to never stop fighting for that

1:19:061小时19分钟6秒钟world so may you all feel blessed in a tradition of Liberation and may you be blessed to

1:19:131小时19分钟13秒钟know you're not alone and let's get to work

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1:19:311小时19分钟31秒钟is even is the

1:19:381小时19分钟38秒钟hold back the light is

1:19:451小时19分钟45秒钟returning even though this day the no one can

1:19:521小时19分钟52秒钟hold back the light is

1:19:581小时19分钟58秒钟returning even this is the no one can

1:20:051小时20分钟5秒钟hold back the light is

1:20:111小时20分钟11秒钟turning even though this is the darkest no one

1:20:181小时20分钟18秒钟can back the down light is return

1:20:261小时20分钟26秒钟even this is the back

1:20:351小时20分钟35秒钟the light is returning even though this is the

1:20:411小时20分钟41秒钟darkest no one can hold back the light is returning even though this is the darkest no one can hold back we Jews were not meant to be occupiers we have been occupied I mean we've always been segregated and discriminated against it's just so distressing to me to see the checkpoints and the special roads and the special walk why that's it's it's a shander