California Politics HuddleCPH Daily Bulletin 10/28/2025
These [Pro-Palestine] protesters blocked the 110 Freeway. Now, their cases are on track to be dismissed
Ramin Honary20 minute documentary “How to erase a people“
on why settler-colonialism is an aboslute evil, how a people and their culture co-exist and evolve with nature, how their language is specific to their way of life, and how their way of life is shaped by the land on which they live. Ultimately, uprooting a people, forcing them to move to another land, necessarily destroys their way of life and erases their culture.
#Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Genocide #HumanRights #SettlerColonialism
80 minute documentary film “Israelism“ (by Vice, on YouTube)This film makes very clear what motivates Jewish pro-Palestinian people in the US to protest, and how their Jewish faith makes their conviction in peace and humanitarianism so powerful.
#USPol #Gaza #genocide #Israel #Palestine #FreePalestine #Judaism #SimoneZimmerman #IfNotNow #Documentary
How To Erase a People
Peter Riley
earthling“Right now, the Israeli military continues to massacre and starve Palestinians in Gaza,”
“We need a ceasefire there now to end Israel’s genocidal assault and return the remaining living hostages.”
IfNotNow, a youth-led progressive Jewish group in the US
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 56,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
Vice documentary film “Israelism“ (on YouTube)
…a film of about 80 minutes, published in January 2025, and worth every minute of your time, which explains the left-right political divide in the Jewish population of the US. This film makes very clear what motivates Jewish pro-Palestinian people in the US to protest since even before genocidal war restarted on 2023-Oct-7, and their reasons are really the most simple, relatable form of peaceful humanitarianism that you will ever see anywhere. I felt moved by how their Jewish faith makes their conviction in peace and humanitarianism so powerful. It seems in light of this most recent genocide, the views of this new generation of Jewish pro-Palestinian rights activists are slowly becoming more mainstream. Of course this invites the reactionaries to fight back against them, and we hear some of their voices in this film as well.
#USPol #Gaza #genocide #Israel #Palestine #FreePalestine #Judaism #SimoneZimmerman #IfNotNow #Documentary
Israelism: How Young American Jews’ Views of Israel Are Shifting | Films on VICE
Steven Zekowski@dbattistella
Reminiscent of the Israelism documentary https://www.israelismfilm.com/
Conflating Judaism with Israel and Zionism has done a great disservice to Judaism. (Why #JVP #JewishVoiceForPeace & #IfNotNow are so important.) FWIW I’m a boomer Jewish-American who only ever attended public schools, and I and my peers were brainwashed too, via temple, Hebrew school, summer camps. I “de-programmed” myself a while ago. Even some my boomer friends are coming around… finally.
About | Israelism
When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. They join a movement of young American Jews battling the old guard to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel, revealing a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity.
AnarchoNinaAnalyzesBecause a significant portion of the regime's fascist efforts to crush dissent revolves around their fact-free declaration that opposing a US-backed genocide in Gaza, being conducted by Israel, is actually antisemitism (and also a foreign policy matter that is beyond regulation due to presidential powers over foreign affairs), the ruling class establishment that supported that genocide even when it belonged to Biden, has a vested interest in presenting Jewish Americans as a unified bloc standing in opposition to anti-genocide protestors in support of Israel and the Zionist agenda. After all, the narrative that all of this monstrous bullshit is being done to protect Jewish people falls apart very quickly once you realize that vast numbers of American Jews are actively against all this fascist, genocidal bullshit; so that latter fact has to be kept from the American public, lest they become wise to the reality that this is all just a propaganda op to justify arms sales, genocide, and fascist repression of folks ideological opposed to the regime.
The reality however, is quite different from the picture you're allowed to see on television; Jewish Americans are actually massively overrepresented in the anti-genocide protest movement, and a vibrant, growing collage of Jewish left organizations are risking the personal safety of their members to vigorously oppose a fascist regime and say, quite directly, that not only are the regime's actions putting Jewish people in danger, they will not allow genocide, deportations, and fascist repression to be conducted "in their name."
For more about this hidden, but not secret story, let's turn to this deep dive by Shane Burley into the rise of Jewish left resistance in America to settler colonial occupation, genocide, and the fascist Trump regime's attempts to deport student protestors under the guise of combatting antisemitism:
https://truthout.org/articles/jewish-organizations-are-fighting-back-against-khalil-deportation/
Jewish Organizations Are Fighting Back Against Khalil Deportation
“This year, all over the U.S., Jews are holding emergency Passover Seders calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil and an end to the criminalization of all those calling for an end to the Israeli government’s genocide of the Palestinian people,” JVP said as it announced the action. This seder is part of a long tradition of using Jewish rituals as a protest tactic, uniting the prophetic spiritual tradition of Judaism with the practical strategies of physical resistance and blockade. This action, offered with relatively short notice and promising to mobilize huge numbers of Jews and allies, is the result of the relationships that have been built across Jewish organizations as they try to confront the repression coming in Trump’s second term.
“We’re building a new coalition right now. Because not all of us have been in the same space together,” Lily Greenberg Call, a member of the New York City chapter of the Jewish anti-Occupation group IfNotNow, called into a megaphone on March 20. “But it is more important than ever now to reach for each other and unite for our communities and our neighbors who are under attack,” she told the thousand people who had flooded the streets of lower Manhattan, the historic home of the U.S. Jewish left. “People in this city have been abducted, separated from their families, thrown in detention camps, and threatened with deportation.”
Frankly, I don't really have a lot to add here because speaking for Jewish Americans who oppose fascism being conducted in their name really isn't my lane. Burley's extensive documentation of how Jewish resistance groups are banding together all across the country is however informative, and enlightening given a media environment where even critics of the Trump regime who still support genocidal Zionist objectives in Gaza are unprepared to report on that resistance. The obvious reality here is that no matter what the ADL says, a fascist regime stacked to the brim with antisemite nazis, doesn't give a flying fuck about combatting antisemitism, and fully intends to use the mere existence of Jewish people and antisemitism in our society, as the spear point for their transformation of America into an over fascist dictatorship - and that's a story, you just won't hear on the Six O'clock News.
#Fascism #Trump #Antisemitism #JewishLeft #MahmoudKhalil #ICE #Deportations #StudentProtests #Genocide #Gaza #Palestine #JVP #IfNotNow #Antifascism #ADL #Zionism
tobie#uspolitics
Hey concerned, distressed, alarmed fellow citizens of the US! When is the next day of collective action? The April 5th "Hands Off" rallies were great but the admin is rapidly dismantling every Constitutional protection we have. Kinda of ironic that a county founded on the principle that you can't lock someone up and throw away the key is doing just that.
Would love to know if folks are gathering on street corners again as they did on April 5.
Chuck DarwinWhile many are gathering this weekend to hold seders on the first nights of Passover,
a number of Jewish organizations are inviting us back into the streets to take the message of liberation further.
On Monday, April 14, the anti-Zionist group "Jewish Voice for Peace" (JVP) will lead over a thousand Jews in a Passover seder directly in front of the New York City headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
This “emergency seder” is part of their now weeks long campaign, led in coalition with other Jewish leftist organizations, to confront Trump’s mass deportations and, specifically, the targeting of former Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil.
“This year, all over the U.S., Jews are holding emergency Passover Seders calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil and an end to the criminalization of all those calling for an end to the Israeli government’s genocide of the Palestinian people,”
JVP said as it announced the action.
This seder is part of a long tradition of using Jewish rituals as a protest tactic, uniting the prophetic spiritual tradition of Judaism with the practical strategies of physical resistance and blockade.
This action, offered with relatively short notice and promising to mobilize huge numbers of Jews and allies, is the result of the relationships that have been built across Jewish organizations as they try to confront the repression coming in Trump’s second term.
“We’re building a new coalition right now. Because not all of us have been in the same space together,”
Lily Greenberg Call, a member of the New York City chapter of the Jewish anti-Occupation group #IfNotNow, called into a megaphone on March 20.
“But it is more important than ever now to reach for each other and unite for our communities and our neighbors who are under attack,”
she told the thousand people who had flooded the streets of lower Manhattan, the historic home of the U.S. Jewish left.
“People in this city have been abducted, separated from their families, thrown in detention camps, and threatened with deportation.”
https://truthout.org/articles/jewish-organizations-are-fighting-back-against-khalil-deportation/
Gerd_Brodowski#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #solidarity / #religion / #ngos / #jvp
„Over the last year and a half, the movement for Palestinian liberation has become one of the largest American #socialmovements of the decade. Not only that, there has also been an incredible resurgence of the Jewish left, as Jewish Palestine solidarity organizations, such as #IfNotNow and #JewishVoiceforPeace, organize a growing contingent of young Jews for an end to the genocide in Gaza.“
