David with “Recovered Zionist." Barb Parmet, our guest last fall but much has happened. Subscribe!

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  • Опубліковано 20 кві 2024
  • This is David’s unscheduled talk with Barb Parmet, a “Recovered Zionist” whom we hosted 3 months ago, but so much has happened since.
    Barb says,
    Before October 7th, Jewish Voice For Peace had spent a year reorganizing chapters throughout the country and talking to our community organizers and members, surveying what had been working and what had not been working and coming up with a new internal structure on how to organize. JVP was much smaller then and so a small conference of chapter leaders was planned up in Monterey at the Asilomar conference center.
    After October 7th, the membership expanded exponentially, by the thousands all over the country. Some chapters in New York and Washington and LA have had hundreds of new members . The completely new and unexpected challenge was to figure out how to take in so many people who were willing to be arrested as they called for Ceasefire while integrating them into the culture of the organization and all the contradictions that implied. So the nature of the conference changed dramatically. We shifted to organizing organizers, including many young college students and younger Jews who wanted to be a part of the struggle.
    So, while organizing massive sit-ins and direct actions of various kinds all over the country, the national leadership was re-organizing the conference by the seat of their collective pants. The amazing result was a conference with Young Jews, Black Jews, Palestinian Jews, Mizrachi, Sephardi Jews along with the huge number of queer cultural and art practitioners with our elder culture of radical Jewish anti-zionists. The result was miraculous. We sang and danced and grieved together while we integrated and discussed together how to struggle together to fight for Palestinians to be treated as human beings with equal rights.
    I will add that JVP made this conference FREE to all who applied and were accepted as representatives of their chapters. They offered travel stipends as well so our East Coast and midwest organizers could join us. JVP wanted NO financial barriers to stop people from coming. This was a gorgeous miracle.
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