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Copyright

Susan Landau;

Published On

2025-06-25

Page Range

pp. 31–32

Language

  • English

Print Length

2 pages

II. AMPLIFYING JEWISH VOICES OF JUSTICE ON ISRAELPALESTINE

  • Susan Landau (author)
Chapter of: 'Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By': Jews of Conscience on Palestine(pp. 31–32)
Thoughtful responses by Jews of Conscience to Israel’s history of record offer fresh insights into how Israeli policies of occupation, apartheid, and the seventy-seven-year Palestinian struggle for equality and human rights have been obscured, dismissed, and ignored.

From the beginning, Israeli leadership carefully planned and implemented policies of supremacy and privilege, including an illegal occupation, home demolitions, confiscation of property, child detention, a two-tiered justice system, settlement expansion, checkpoints, bypass roads, a separation barrier, family separations, and apartheid. These policies have continued unabated.

Some Jewish voices of dissent claim the Nakba continues, as daily life for Palestinians, particularly in the West Bank and Gaza, is fraught with Israeli domination and violations of international law, as well as unnecessary Palestinian suffering and deprivation of their basic human rights.

A careful reading of Part II may suggest a way to contextualize the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.

Contributors

Susan Landau

(author)

Susan Landau is a passionate advocate for kindness, justice, truth, and equality. The time-honored ethical tradition of Judaism grounds her self-definition as an anti-Zionist Jew, and shapes over twenty years of her active engagement in learning, organizing, educating, writing, and advocating for justice for all people of historic Palestine. She offers presentations, classes, and webinars locally, and at regional and national conferences. Susan is a co-editor of a study guide, Why Palestine Matters: The Struggle to End Colonialism (2018, Palestine Justice Network of the Presbyterian Church, USA). Susan Landau, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She combines her lifelong career as a psychotherapist with a commitment to political education and advocacy in support of justice in Palestine. Susan lives in East Falls, Pennsylvania where she maintains her private psychotherapy practice.