'No to ethnic cleansing': over 350 rabbis sign US ad assailing Trump's Gaza plan

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Source: The Guardian

Thu 13 Feb 2025 05.00 EST
Last modified on Thu 13 Feb 2025 11.25 EST


More than 350 rabbis, alongside additional signatories including Jewish creatives and activists, have signed an ad in the New York Times in which they condemn Donald Trump’s proposal for the effective ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza.

The ad, which was signed by rabbis including Sharon Brous, Roly Matalon and Alissa Wise, as well as Jewish creatives and activists including Tony Kushner, Ilana Glazer, Naomi Klein and Joaquin Phoenix, says: “Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say no to ethnic cleansing!”

The ad follows Trump’s proposal to “take over Gaza” and leave 2 million Palestinians who have survived Israel’s deadly onslaught against the narrow strip with “no alternative” but to leave their homes.

Trump has called on Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries to take in Palestinians – a proposal that has been met with widespread criticism from Arab countries and other allies while being condemned as an ethnic-cleansing plan.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/rabbis-ad-trump-gaza-plan

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[IzzaNuDay]

1. I understand their sentiment...

but if any of them voted for the orange clown, then what did they expect?

[Intractable]

2. I am an atheist who escaped the Jewish religion early on in life.

Reading this makes me feel a little more Jewish.

Reading about the continued aggressions of Netanyahu makes me feel less Jewish.

[AntiFascist]

3. Great to hear!!

The U.S. should definitely clean up the mess caused by the bombs it provided, then turn over the land for development by the remaining Gazans and those who want to sponsor them, along with a political structure to ensure there is no more violence from either side. One can dream.

[C0RI0LANUS]

6. And re-start the Democratic Party position since the Oslo Accords: The Two-State Solution.

[Martin68]

4. They have principles. Good for them.

[C0RI0LANUS]

5. And we should listen to people who survived the Holocaust and the Third Reich.

“To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed, never with the oppressors.”


Marek Edelman, the last surviving commander of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.




Home Army soldiers Henryk Ozarek “Henio” (left) and Tadeusz Przybyszweski “Roma” fighting Nazis during the Warsaw Uprising in October 1944. (Wikimedia Commons)

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7. "Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing!"

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