In Support of Palestinian Life

Jews on Ohlone Land (JOOL) joins people the world over in demanding an immediate end to the ongoing genocide and starvation of the Palestinian people, and destruction of the land and the infrastructure necessary to support Palestinian life, in both Gaza and in the West Bank. Nothing justifies this unconscionable violence and harm. It is a fundamental betrayal of our Jewish values and teachings. We join the global call for Palestinian Liberation, and an end to the genocide, apartheid and occupation. We call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, food aid, the release of all prisoners and hostages, an end to the unconditional supply of weapons and military aid from the U.S. to the State of Israel, and the immediate, unfettered delivery of the massive food aid, medical aid, and humanitarian assistance needed to save remaining lives in Gaza in the face of mass starvation. We encourage donations to be made to the Gaza Soup Kitchen and for people to sign the petition found on the Jews for Food Aid for People In Gaza page.

JOOL centers our work around two main goals: showing up to support the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and the Lisjan Nation’s expression of their sovereignty, and living in Lisjan Nation territory as whole, Jewish people in beloved community. As diasporic Jews, we are inspired by Jews around the world who re-imagine Jewish experience as being fully centered in the places where they live(d). For JOOL, that means being called into right relationship with Lisjan Nation land and people, and learning to live as good guests in the Bay Area. It means opening space for the land and Lisjan Nation people to shape us, our Jewish practice, and our identity here. 

Even as our day to day work focuses on our home in Huchiun, the part of Lisjan Nation territory where we live, we are clear that we don’t want Jewish safety to be dependent on, entangled with, or benefiting from settler-colonial violence anywhere in the world, perhaps especially in Israel/Palestine where our Jewish kin are now perpetrating wildly disproportionate violence. We work in Huchiun for collective liberation, and that ripples from the Bay Area to Palestine/Israel and beyond. 

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