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Zioness Open Letter to Friends and Allies on the Antisemitic Terror Attack at Congregation Beth Israel

Dear friends and allies to the Jewish people, As you already know, this past weekend, after an ostensibly homeless gunman was welcomed into a Texas shul, he took hostage a Rabbi and 3 innocent Jewish Shabbat worshippers. Jews the world over held our collective breath for 11 hours, praying that this synagogue attack would end …

Zioness Statement on the Sentencing of Gregory and Travis McMichael and William Bryan for the Murder of Ahmaud Arbery

Gregory and Travis McMichael and William Bryan murdered Ahmaud Arbery, an innocent man going for a run, for the crime of being Black in America. Ahmaud, a young man with a loving family and a whole life ahead, spent five full minutes literally running for his life. Barring a successful appeal, the McMichaels will spend …

Zioness Statement on “Anti-Zionism” from CAIR’s Zahra Billoo

When you attack “Zionists,” you attack Jews. No matter your religion or ethnicity, if you claim that “anti-Zionism” is about Israeli policy, and not about Jewish identity, you are perpetuating one of the most dangerous and metastatic forms of hate the world has ever known. CAIR San Francisco leader Zahra Billoo has, over many years, …

Zioness Open Letter to Progressive Electeds: Disavow Sunrise Antisemitism, and Welcome Jews in Social Justice Spaces — Scroll down and Sign your Name!

Dear Congressmembers Bowman, Tlaib, Bush, Newman, Levin, Omar, Pressley, and Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Sanders, We write on behalf of tens of thousands of progressive American Jews who are deeply passionate about the fight for social, racial, economic, gender and environmental justice in America. We write to you specifically because you are endorsed by Sunrise Movement, …

Zioness Statement on U.S. Treatment of Haitian Refugees

Like all Americans of conscience, we are crushed and ashamed at the images and videos of Haitian refugees––hungry, exhausted, dehydrated, barefoot, desperate for a better future––being hunted and whipped by U.S. border agents under the Del Rio International Bridge. Weary children lay in the arms of their mothers and fathers as they sleep on cardboard, …

Zioness Statement on SCOTUS Refusal to Stop Texas Abortion Ban

Last night, an oppressive and blatantly unconstitutional Texas law went into effect that would ban nearly all abortions in that state. The Supreme Court refused to hear a plea to intervene and block the implementation of this law, despite its clear contravention of the constitutional standards dictated by Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. …