Robert Cohen
Robert Cohen

Robert Cohen describes his very Jewish path to solidarity with Palestinian families in a Patheos op-ed dedicated to young Jewish students entering University.

“My sense of unease about Israel that had begun during my first visit to the country was beginning to find its articulation. Here was a people suffering in the West Bank and Gaza because of what my people were doing….  What happens to your sacrosanct understanding of ‘being Jewish’ when it becomes another people’s catastrophe?”

You can find his article published on Mondoweiss.

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