4/15

this is the text from post today on IG
it took me a while to write
and I wanted to preserve it here...
i am beside myself
over the complacency of the people around me
i am beside myself
how people can accept
living in a world
where we ignore the suffering around us
so i wrote this

yesterday evening’s emergency seder in the streets
bought to you by IfNotNow, Jewish Voice for Peace & Rabbis 4 Ceasefire

it’s been a long time since i identified as jewish
but it feels important to do so now
to stand as someone who says
“not in our name”
“come for one, face us all”
“none of us are free until all of us are free”

the regime is using antisemitism
as a pretext to divide us,
to make us fear each other
and to pick us off,
one by one

if you were waiting for a constitutional crisis
to believe our democracy has devolved into fascism
THAT WAIT IS OVER

we are living under a regime that
snatches people off the streets,
ships them overseas to torture camps without due process,
and then defies court orders to bring them back,
a regime that has co-opted the top law firms
to fight PRO BONO on its behalf

this is happening NOW
and THIS is what fascism looks like

turning a blind eye to injustice
does not make it go away
it makes one complicit
it robs one of one’s own freedom

if one feels they themselves
(or their loved ones)
will never be targeted directly
think again
it is our collective humanity that is up for grabs
and there is no grey area in that game.

I stand with courage,
the courage to challenge my fears,
to challenge my own beliefs about others,
and to challenge my beliefs about what i require to truly “be free”

the time for saying:
“it could never happen here”
is over
it is happening,
it has happened,
it’s not a bad dream
and the only thing that can stop it is us

please find a march on Saturday and take to the streets again
it really does matter