re: NYC teen filmed carrying anti-Semitic sign is identified

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According to a 2020 Pew survey, roughly half of American Jews aged 50-64 or 65 and older agreed that caring about Israel is essential to what it means to be Jewish.

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But other American Jews, long critical of the Israeli government’s policies toward Palestinians, have called for a cease-fire in Israel’s ongoing bombing of the Gaza Strip, which has killed as many as 6,500 Palestinians. These Jews have opposed any kind of military intervention in response to the Hamas killings and called Israel’s response a “genocide” of Palestinians.

“I think that progressives, certainly young Jewish progressives, see the moral and political necessity of taking every single action we can, in this time, to bring about a cease-fire and an end to violence,” said Stefanie Fox, executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace, which along with the Jewish group If Not Now organized two protests on Capitol Hill last week calling for a cease-fire. Hundreds of protesters, the majority Jewish, were arrested.

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