Rabbi Rachel Timone, senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Elohim, said in an interview with POLITICO. “There's been a real fear in the American Jewish community of criticizing Israel. … Senator Schumer did something so great in breaking that silence.”
Timone leads a “reform, pluralistic community,” she said representing a liberal Jewish perspective she feels is often drowned out in American conversations about Israel.
I think that Schumer said out loud what the overwhelming majority of American Jews are saying to each other, which is that Bibi Netanyahu is making the world less safe for Jews and making Israel less safe for Israelis.
Netanyahu himself has said that he completely opposes a two-state solution. And so he is an obstacle to peace. So yes, I think that what Senator Schumer said was brave and right. Just a thought.
I think that Schumer said out loud what the overwhelming majority of American Jews are saying to each other, which is that Bibi Netanyahu is making the world less safe for Jews and making Israel less safe for Israelis.
Netanyahu himself has said that he completely opposes a two-state solution. And so he is an obstacle to peace. So yes, I think that what Senator Schumer said was brave and right. Just a thought.
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