Palestinians and people across the world are rising up for an end to Israel’s apartheid practices and its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. In this special episode of The Word is Resistance, Rev. Margaret Ernst features an interview with Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg. Rev. Margaret and Rabbi Jessica talk about being religious leaders in solidarity with Palestine, how that ties to working for racial justice and abolition in their own home communities, and the essential role for Christians to disrupt and take responsibility for the impact of Christian Zionism: an anti-semitic, anti-Muslim political project that fuels the occupation on the basis of a dangerous end-times vision of Christian supremacy.

Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg is an organizer, writer, and early-riser, currently rerooting on Dakota land in what is now known as south Minneapolis. She became a rabbi in order to learn her people’s diverse and nuanced histories, and to create spaces, rituals, tools, and organizing that help transform our relationships to past, present and future. She is on the rabbinical council for Jewish Voice for Peace.

To take action: call or take action at your lawmaker's office to support H.R. 2590, and the House Joint Resolution to block the proposed sale of $735 million in U.S. weaponry to the Israeli government. 

For more information on Christian Zionism, see the countering Christian Zionism toolkit from Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA)at https://countercufi.yuvi.in/ and sign up for SURJ’s webinar on Thursday, May 20th: Palestinian Liberation is a Racial Justice Issue. Register at www.bit.ly/PalestinianLiberation

Transcript available here: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html