Ben is a friend who I met when I served for a year representing the J Street Rabbinic and Cantorial Cabinet on the Board of J Street, a national pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy organization based in Washington, D.C.

I urge you to read Ben’s heart-breaking account (published in the Jewish Journal of Northern California) of his Palestinian friends living in the West Bank who have become victims of the extreme right-wing Israeli government’s de facto (leading to de jure) illegal annexation of an increasing amount of West Bank territory. As the tumult in American politics, the horror of October 7 and the Israel-Hamas War continue, news about the West Bank has not broken through nearly enough in the west.

I am grateful to Ben for bringing this one single tragedy that just took place in the South Hebron Hills to our attention. Read his heart-breaking account here: https://jweekly.com/2024/07/10/i-am-an-israeli-american-jew-bulldozing-palestinian-homes-is-personal-for-me/