Naomi Klein: "Jews Must Raise Voices for Palestine, Oppose "False Idol of Zionism"
Hundreds
of protesters were arrested in Brooklyn on Tuesday when Jewish New
Yorkers and allies gathered for what they called a "Seder in the Streets
to Stop Arming Israel" on the second night of Passover. The
demonstration, held one block away from the home of Senate Majority
Leader Chuck Schumer, came just hours before the Senate overwhelmingly
approved a $95 billion foreign aid package that includes about $17
billion in arms and security funding to Israel. "Too many of our people
are worshiping a false idol," said award-winning author and activist
Naomi Klein, one of several speakers at Tuesday's rally. "They are
enraptured by it. They are drunk on it. They are profaned by it. And
that false idol is called Zionism."
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