The word “genocide” is increasingly being used to describe the situation in Gaza, one month into the Israel-Hamas war. Amanda Berman, founder and executive director of Zioness, argues the word is an inaccurate characterization of Israel’s actions. She joins “NewsNation Prime” to discuss, saying it is within Israel’s rights to defend itself.
“We must bolster the voices of the true progressives who make up the majority. We must learn from the past and denounce violent hatred even if it is cynically advertised as “resistance” or “justice”. We must be unapologetic in walking away from anyone who will twist the facts to justify their celebration of abject terror. We must protect …
“[The Biden administration’s] antisemitism plan is extraordinary in its breadth and its whole-of-government approach,” said Amanda Berman, executive director of Zioness, a grassroots advocacy organization focused on promoting Israel in progressive spaces. “But we are now at an urgent moment requiring recognition of the incontrovertible fact that anti-Zionism is antisemitism … Without adopting and institutionalizing …
Amanda Berman, founder of a progressive Zionist group called Zioness, believes there are two main reasons why Jews in the United States are not being shown as much solidarity as they were after the Pittsburgh shooting. “First of all, Americans love to politicize antisemitism by pointing to their perceived ideological enemies and accusing them of …
Amanda Berman, who founded the Zioness movement in 2017, has spent the past five years “in the belly of the beast” countering antisemitism. Yet the events unfolding overseas were “an impossible week.” “I knew how serious [antisemitism] was — I talked about it 18 hours a day — and I never expected this,” she said. …
