British Jews came together to condemn Hamas, but concerns over Israel’s actions are being voiced
unleashed a terrorist attack on Israeli civilians in southern Israel, hundreds of British Jews waved Israeli flags and sang the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah, at a vigil outside Downing Street.
While stating that Hamas’s actions were war crimes and that Israel had a clear right to respond in self-defence, it said “some aspects of Israel’s response already cause significant concern”. Holding a population under siege, collective punishment and failure to ensure minimum destruction to civilian life and infrastructure “would, if established, constitute a grave violation of international law”, they wrote.
A survivor of Hamas’s attack on the Supernova music festival, Noa Ben Artzi, walks from the stage, during a gathering of the American Jewish Community in Washington’s Sixth & I Historic Synagogue on 17 October 2023.Talk of the “Jewish community” as a homogenous body was misplaced, he said. “It’s not singular, and no one can stand up and say: ‘I speak for them’.
“In dramatic times, it’s difficult not to see things in binary terms,” said Friedman. “It’s difficult to think about context. But with all these difficulties, it’s really important to try not to be binary, to make an effort to hold different thoughts in one’s head at the same time.”Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observerin the UK, said there was unease amid the rawness, distress and sense of vulnerability in her community.
Ephraim Mirvis meets the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, at the South Hampstead Synagogue, London for discussions on 12 October, 2023.In the US, there have also been signs of discomfort about the unfolding war among American Jews. Protesters – including 400 Jews and 25 rabbis, according to Jewish Voice for Peace – gathered to demand a ceasefire near the Capitol. “We are here to say, ‘Not in our name’,” Jay Saper.
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