“I think that tying antisemitism and Islamophobia together is a way of avoiding actually addressing the way that either form of hate is manifesting, because they’re not the same,” Amanda Berman, executive director of Zioness, a progressive pro-Israel organization, told Jewish Insider on Thursday.
Zioness activists show up to Rep. Bowman’s “healing breakfast” and express their concerns. Bowman’s Jewish constituents tried to convey how an ancestral terror of annihilation had been newly awakened. “This is Westchester!” said one mother of young children. “How can we be feeling unsafe as Jews?”
Amanda Berman, a 38-year-old Jewish New Yorker, founded the Zioness Movement in 2017 as a progressive Zionist organization seeking to counter the anti-Zionism and antisemitism she and her Jewish friends working in social justice groups encountered. Her goal was to give progressives the knowledge and tools to be proud Zionists by working with activists to confront antisemitism …
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 …
