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Never Again Is Now: Chicago Mass Mobilization

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  Monday, July 8, 2019 at 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM CDT Tomorrow · 19–25°C Sunny

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This Monday, join us to take action against the deportation machine in Chicago. ICE and its enablers are committing atrocities across the country, including our own backyard. Every single person who does not fight to end these atrocities must be held accountable.

At 4:00, we will meet at Congress Plaza to gather before we begin our action.

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...oI28Q/viewform

As Jews, we have grown up with the phrase Never Again seared into our memories. We have been taught to never let anything like the Holocaust happen again. From our many Jewish histories of detention, violence, and migration all over the world, we know that we’ve seen this before. But the legacies of violence, white supremacy, detention and genocide are alive and well in our communities.

Now, as we see widespread separation of families, detention of children in horrific conditions, and adults and children dying at the border as they attempt to leave violence and instability created largely by our own country's foreign policies, we refuse to wait to see what happens next.

When we say never again, we mean it.

We know that the current crisis is nothing new in this country. And we know that the crisis is not contained to the border; it is happening in communities across the country as our neighbors are terrorized by ICE raids and by increasingly violent rhetoric from the mouths of this country's leaders. Until our politicians take drastic action to shut down ICE and create safe conditions for people seeking safety, we must make it impossible for ICE to do business as usual.

#NeverAgainMeans never again.
#NeverAgainMeans abolish ICE.
#NeverAgainMeans close the camps.
#NeverAgainMeans never again for anyone.


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Jews are shutting down ICE, because when we say never again, we mean it.As Jews, we’ve been taught to never let anything like the Holocaust happen again. Now, with children and humans of all ages detained in unacceptable conditions, ICE raids targeting our communities, and people dying at the border while seeking safety in the US, we are seeing the signs of a mass atrocity. We refuse to wait and see what happens next.
During this next week #JewsAgainstICE across the US will be taking the streets to publicly protest ICE and to remind the world that Never Again means Never Again for Anyone.
We will be taking action in the Chicago area on Monday, July 8th. Actions will be taking place in cities throughout the country during this week.
This crisis isn’t happening just at the border. It’s happening in our communities all around the country, and we need anyone and everyone to throw themselves into the gears of the system. We need our politicians to take drastic action to shut down ICE immediately and ensure safety for people fleeing to the United States. Until they do, we’re going to make it impossible for ICE to do business as usual.
#NeverAgainMeans never again.
#NeverAgainMeans abolish ICE.
#NeverAgainMeans close the camps.
#NeverAgainMeans never again for anyone.

Shouting ‘Never Again,’ 1,000 Jewish Activists Shut Down Central Boston To Protest Immigration Detention

July 3, 2019 By Ari Feldman
GettyAn immigration detention protest in San Francisco on Tuesday.

Over 1,000 Jewish activists and other protesters shut down traffic in central Boston Tuesday evening to protest inhumane detainment of people hoping to immigrate to the U.S. at the southern border, the Boston Globe reported.
The protests began at the city’s Holocaust memorial and chanted, sang and drummed their way to an ICE detention facility, where immigrants in Boston have been held while awaiting deportation. Protesters included leaders and members of IfNotNow, the Jewish social justice group, and was co-organized by Cosecha, the immigrant-rights group. The protests came just after 36 Jewish activists were arrested protesting outside an ICE facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey on Sunday.
“I think it’s particularly important for Jews, who face anti-Semitism, and have an ancestral history of trauma, to speak out on behalf of other people,” Rabbi Becky Silverstein told the Globe.


For many of the protesters, the phrase “Never Again” has become a rallying cry for the movement to end inhumane detention policies at the border. The phrase has been used by protesters opposing the Trump administration’s immigration policies since the first roll-out of the ban on immigrants from Muslim countries.
The use of the phrase has led to controversy, such as in June, when the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., released a statement saying that it “unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary.”


“I don’t think we are at risk of overusing serious language, but at risk of not acting fast enough,” Stosh Cotler, the CEO of the Jewish social justice group Bend the Arc.
One woman, Jaclyn Friedman, posted about being one of the 18 people arrested in front of Boston’s ICE facility, where immigrants have been detained.


Ari Feldman is a staff writer at the Forward. Contact him at feldman@forward.com or follow him on Twitter @aefeldman

This story "Jewish Activists’ Immigration Protests Shut Down Boston" was written by Ari Feldman.

https://forward.com/fast-forward/426...ention-boston/

Send ALL illegal aliens to Israel.

They do not want them there either.

We owe them nothing but a bus ticket back home.

Remove them all.

Genetic citizenship: DNA testing and the Israeli Law of Return

Ian V. McGonigle Lauren W. Herman

Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Volume 2, Issue 2, July 2015, Pages 469–478,https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsv027

Published:
17 June 2015

• Abstract

The Israeli State recently announced that it may begin to use genetic tests to determine whether potential immigrants are Jewish or not. This development would demand a rethinking of Israeli law on the issue of the definition of Jewishness. In this article, we discuss the historical and legal context of secular and religious definitions of Jewishness and rights to immigration in the State of Israel. We give a brief overview of different ways in which genes have been regarded as Jewish, and we discuss the relationship between this new use of genetics and the society with which it is co-produced. In conclusion, we raise several questions about future potential impacts of Jewish genetics on Israeli law and society.
Issue Section:
New Developments

Masha Yakerson, like many of her Jewish, college-age peers, attempted to sign up for a Birthright Israel1 trip in the summer of 2013.2 Birthright told Yakerson, whose family is from Russia, that to prove that she was Jewish, and eligible for the trip, she would need to take a DNA test.3 Birthright claimed that the test was required by the Israeli consulate, and further that a DNA test would be required if Yakerson ever wanted to make aliyah (immigrate to Israel).4 Yakerson's father called the policy ‘blatant racism toward Russian Jews’.5 Generally, the requirements for teenagers from other countries to participate in Birthright are much less stringent and many participants do not meet strict definitions of Jewishness. In fact, ‘[s]ince Taglit-Birthright doesn't accept candidates who have visited Israel before, its participants often come from nonaffiliated homes, many of them the products of mixed marriages’.6 Historically, ‘[t]rust was the default position’ to determine if someone was Jewish.7 It is only more recently, in ‘an era of intermarriage, denominational disputes, and secularization’ that doubt and skepticism have become the norm.8
After the news of this one student's experience made headlines, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office confirmed that many Jews from the Former Soviet Union (‘FSU’) are asked to provide DNA confirmation of their Jewish heritage in order to immigrate as Jews and become citizens under Israel's Law of Return.9 According to one source, the consul's procedure, which was:

approved by the legal department of the Interior Ministry, states that a Russian-speaking child born out-of-wedlock is eligible to receive an Israeli immigration visa if the birth was registered before the child turned [three]. Otherwise a DNA test to prove Jewish parentage is necessary.10

The State of Israel defines itself as the homeland of the Jewish people, making it ethno-national in its own self-image11 and raising perennial concerns over who is a Jew, how this can be determined, by what credible means, and what exactly this says about the ‘legal nature’ of citizenship in Israel.12 The recent turn to genetics is an attempt to develop an objective, scientific means of defining the boundaries of the Jewish population. In light of the ambiguities around the materiality/immateriality of the basis of Jewish ethnicity, its connection to the State's founding narrative of exilic return, and its impact on rights to citizenship, it is not yet clear how and why biological definitions of Jewishness are becoming an important part of the way Israelis understand their Jewish ethnicity as something rooted in the body, transmitted by genes, and shared by the national group.13
Scholar of Science, Technology, and Society, Sheila Jasanoff, recently wrote that ‘periods of significant change in the life sciences and technologies should be seen as constitutional, or more precisely, bio-constitutional in their consequences’.14 Given that Israel has no formalized constitution,15 the recent advent of genetic tests for Jewishness necessitates a rethinking of Israeli law regarding the State's definition of Jewishness, and rights to citizenship.
In this New Development, we discuss the historical and legal context of secular and religious definitions of Jewishness and rights to immigration in the State of Israel. We then give a brief overview of different ways in which genes have been regarded as Jewish, and we discuss the relationship between this new application of genetics and the society with which it is co-produced.16 In conclusion, we raise several questions about future potential impacts of Jewish genetics on Israeli law and society.
JEWISH ALIYAH (IMMIGRATION)

The establishment of the State of Israel problematizes a single definition of Jewishness; the State was founded on secular socialist principles, relies on religious Jewish law, and was built by waves of diverse Jewish immigrants from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, with varying levels of Jewish religious practice.17Maintaining a steady stream of Jewish immigrants is crucial to Israeli state-building, facilitating the integration of world Jewry, and fulfilling the State's mission as homeland and refuge for all Jews.18 But, the ‘authenticity’ of Jewish immigrants for Israeli state-building ‘has been judged (often simultaneously) in both religious and bioethnic terms’.19 The Population Registry Law 5725–1965 requires residents to enter both their le'oum (nationality or ethnic group)20 and religion in the registry.21 A recent Israeli Supreme Court case affirmed an earlier precedent and distinguishedle'oum or nationality, from secular citizenship. The court rejected the petitioners’ request to list ‘Israeli’ under the nationality rubric on their identity documents, to reflect their citizenship and belonging to the Israeli State, rather than ‘Jewish’, which reflects their ethno-religious affiliation.22
Immigration of Jews in Israel is governed by Israel's Law of Return 5710–1950, which provides: ‘Every Jew has the right to come to this country as an oleh [Jewish immigrant]’.23 ‘[I]n conjunction with the Citizenship Law, … it enables every Jew to become a citizen of the state, almost automatically’.24 For the first twenty years, the law did not define who was a Jew, and thus who had the right to immigrate.25 In 1970, the Law was amended to include a definition of Jew: ‘For the purposes of this Law, “Jew” means a person who was born of a Jewish mother or has become converted to Judaism and who is not a member of another religion’.26 The 1970 amendment also expanded citizenship rights to family members of eligible Jews:

The rights of a Jew under this Law … as well as the rights of an oleh under any other enactment, are also vested in a child and a grandchild of a Jew, the spouse of a Jew, the spouse of a child of a Jew and the spouse of a grandchild of a Jew, except for a person who has been a Jew and has voluntarily changed his religion.27

The amendment represented a compromise between the religious and secular perspectives.28 The amendment adopted the religious definition of a Jew—someone with a Jewish mother or someone who has converted to Judaism.29 However, the amendment extended citizenship rights to those who are referred to as ‘seed of Israel’—‘anyone either born to a non-Jewish mother and a Jewish father, or having at least one Jewish grandparent’.30 Thus, the law grants citizenship rights both to those who are religiously Jewish but would not have Jewish biological links, such as Jews who converted, as well as those who do not have religious or biological connections to Jewishness, such as spouses of Jews.
The 1970 amendment was a response to a controversial Israeli Supreme Court case,Shalit v. Minister of the Interior, which permitted children of a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother to register as part of the Jewish le'oum or ethnic group in the Population Registry.31 ‘[T]he amended law “overruled” the Shalit case by adopting the religious law test of defining who is considered Jewish, but the law saved the spirit of the Shalit decision by’ granting non-Jewish family members the right to immigrate under the Law of Return.32
Since the law was amended, and especially in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, Jews from the FSU have arrived to Israel en masse.33 Many had assimilated and secularized in the FSU and intermarried with non-Jewish Russians. Thus, although many Russian immigrants are Jewish by descent, and are entitled to citizenship, their Jewishness is questioned by the Ministry of Interior, and they are often required to show additional proof.34 These individuals face even more skepticism by rabbinic authorities, as many are not considered Jews under Orthodox Jewish law.35
SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS JEWISHNESS

The discrepancy between eligibility for Israeli citizenship and classification as part of the Jewish nation creates challenges for Israeli citizens who are not considered religiously Jewish. Israel is governed by a dual legal system, where both civil and religious courts have jurisdiction over various areas of the law. The laws governing personal status, such as marriage and divorce, are part of the exclusive jurisdiction of the religious courts.36 Only Jews who are halakhically (under religious Jewish law) Jewish are eligible to marry in the religious courts, belong to synagogues, or be buried in Jewish cemeteries; there is no civil marriage in Israel.37 One of the main functions of the rabbinic courts is to provide judicial rulings on whether a person is Jewish.38
The number of immigrants who are eligible to immigrate under the Law of Return, but are not religiously Jewish is quite staggering. Demographer Sergio Della Pergola suggested that by a religious definition there are roughly 14 million Jews around the world, but over 23 million people eligible for citizenship under the Law of Return.39This potentially leaves a large segment of the population in limbo—eligible for immigration and citizenship but ineligible to legally marry and participate as full members of society. The move to mandate genetic tests of Jewishness as a requirement for immigration threatens to increase this divide because it cannot grant Jewish status recognized by the rabbis.
The Prime Minister's Office attempted to distinguish the purpose of the DNA test as a secular immigration regulation rather than a marker of religious identity. The Prime Minister's Office reported: ‘We're not talking about a test to determine Jewishness. We're talking about a test to determine a family bond that entitles [the child to]aliyah’.40 The Prime Minister's Office thus emphasized the line between secular citizenship and religious belonging in the Jewish nation.
JEWISH GENES

While racial divisions are classically ideological, high-tech science has entered the arena, and has further complexified the borders of Jewish identity and ethnicity. Molecular genetic tests can now be used to measure individuals’ whole genomes, and scientific research has begun to describe the genetic basis for a common ancestry of the whole of the Jewish population.41
There are three key ways in which Jewishness has moved to the molecular realm, with genes being defined as Jewish: population genetics; genetic testing for both disease and Jewish identity; and human ova and sperm donation, as in the field of assisted conception.42 In these different conceptual arenas, Jewish genes and inheritance are defined in different ways, opening up a wider space of ambiguity around Jewish identity and definition.43
With population genetics or ‘tracing Jewish history through DNA’,44 these types of studies attempt to trace Jewish history through genetics, and elucidate a common historical origin of the Jewish people in the biblical land of Israel. Here, Jewishness is determined by genomic analysis as ‘statistical probabilities that DNA haplotypes will be more prevalent’ within identified groups. But the presence of a certain haplotype within an individual is not a guarantee that the individual is Jewish or not.45Moreover, the historical claims that are entangled with these scientific studies are heavily debated.46
The Cohanim Modal Haplotype (CMH), the Jewish genetic marker that has received the most attention, was first publicized in the journal Nature in a study that identified six differences in the DNA sequence of male Jews that identified as Cohensor Cohanim (Jewish priests).47 Some scientists think that the Cohanim signature could represent the inheritance of over 100 generations from the founder of the patrilineal genetic line.48 The signature is traced to a date over 3000 years ago, in accordance with the oral tradition that the Cohens maintain a line of patrilineal descent from Aaron, the first Jewish priest.49
In the second domain of Jewish genetics, inheritable diseases common in Jewish groups, DNA mutations can be read to indicate a higher likelihood of developing a specific disease.50 Consequently, there has been a move to test individuals for genetic markers of disease before they form partnerships and have children together.51
The third sphere of Jewish genetics is in assisted conception, which resonates with the Jewish tradition and its emphasis on fruitful reproduction.52 Accordingly, Kahn found that the Orthodox Jewish community has been receptive to the use of technologies to assist with fertility and has developed approaches to reconcile the genetic realities with Jewish law. Many rabbis will permit married couples to use non-Jewish genetic donor material when no other measures exist to solve infertility challenges,53 and since Jewishness is halakhically passed from mother to child, non-Jewish sperm can create a Jewish child if the mother is Jewish. However, the inheritance of Jewishness is problematized when a surrogate mother carries a baby. This begs the question of whether a baby who has genetically Jewish parents, i.e. who donate the egg and sperm, but who is carried by a non-Jewish surrogate, will be deemed Jewish. In a recent case with those facts, a rabbi opined that the baby technically had three parents, and because the surrogate was not Jewish, the child was not Jewish.54 Although most rabbis believe that the mother is determined by gestation and birth, some ‘recognize both the genetic and birth mothers as having maternal status’.55 A minority believe that if Jewish parents contribute genetic material ‘the child's status should follow that of the genetic/intended social mother’.56
The DNA tests described by the Prime Minister's Office and brought to light by Yakerson's case suggest a policy decision to enshrine Jewishness at the level of DNA, render ‘Jewish genes’ legally legible by the State, and make DNA signatures a basis for basic rights and citizenship. In practical terms, Jewish genes are ambiguous entities and often do not match legal definitions of Jewishness. For example, non-Jewish donor sperm and ova can be used in assisted conception clinics to produce babies that are legally Jewish in the eyes of the State, though only if the gestating womb is Jewish.57 DNA markers that could be read as Jewish on an individual level, however, need not be identified in these individuals. Conversely, a child could have Jewish genetic material, but without a Jewish mother would not be considered Jewish. These varying possibilities point to the ambiguity or outright contradictions across the field of Jewish genetics and the rabbinical sphere.
In fact, the religious Orthodox community has had a mixed response to the increase in genetic technology among Jewish definition and reproduction. In general, they have embraced the genetic tests, and have relied on them to ensure safe and healthy reproduction.58 However, when it comes to genetics as a means of testing Jewishness, many rabbis remain skeptical. One rabbi said he believed genetics could be a ‘consultant’ to Jewish law.59 For other rabbis, concerns remain about the ‘dangerous eugenic overtones.’60
Alternatively, genetic tests offer the possibility to legitimize those whose Jewishness is often questioned. For example, an Eastern European woman in Israel sought rabbinic permission to marry.61 ‘To bolster her claim for a marriage license, [she] … had her DNA analyzed’.62 The DNA test ‘tipped the balance in her favor’ and the ‘rabbi granted her a marriage license as a bona fide Jew’.63
Further, underserved Jewish communities in Israel, whose Jewishness is questioned, could benefit from proof of authentic Jewishness. For example, the Lemba people of southern Africa not only claim descent from a tribe of Israel with descent passed from father to son, and maintain some Jewish traditions such as a kosher diet, but ‘[t]he CMH appears in the Lemba with a frequency similar to that in the general Jewish population (in just under one out of every ten men)’.64 This adds support to their demands to be treated as equals. Although arguably claims for equality should stand on their own, and not depend on proof of Jewish lineage, the marginalized groups of the Beta Israel of Ethiopia,65 the Kuki-Chin-Mizo from Northeast India,66or the Lemba, could all likely benefit from scientifically certifiable Jewishness to support their campaigns toward equal rights.
Regardless of the indexical power or validity of these genetic tests, when they are recognized by the State, the reality of Jewishness as a measurable biological category can implicate access to basic rights and citizenship in Israel. Kahn thus argues that genetic studies must be read within the larger sociopolitical context where the meaning of claiming Jewish identity can make a direct impact in terms of access to rights and resources.67
BIOPOLITICS

In light of the ambiguity of the meaning and importance of Jewish genes, coupled with the prospect that they may become a criterion for citizenship in Israel, it is not yet clear: Why genes? Why now? And why the move to control the borders of the nation in this new genetic way?
The development of Jewish genetics can be seen as a golden example of a hybrid fusion of statecraft and technoscience, or what philosopher Michel Foucault and others describe as the management of populations through ‘biopolitics’,68 the governance of life itself.69 The prospect of genetic tests to determine Jewishness in Israel raises concerns over a reinscription of ethnic essentialisms, entailing a project that could foster a new regime of biopower70 at the level of an individual's genes, with potential for governments cataloging the biological citizen at the molecular level. Crucially, however, the legitimacy of the diverse manifestations of Jewish genetics hinges on its utility as a ‘regulatory technique’71 in managing Israel's population.
Similarly, Barbara Prainsack argues that Israel's permissive laws regarding the use of artificial reproductive technologies can be traced to their utility in tackling Israel's ‘demographic problem’, that is in maintaining a Jewish majority.72 Moreover, she finds that Israel's pro-natalist culture rests on a notion of ‘risk’ to the population that serves to bolster the State's mandate to reproduce the nation at the level of individuals.73 Genetic Jewishness may thus offer possibilities for a demographic ‘boost’.74 Genetic legitimation might only be meaningful, however, if it is recognized by the rabbis or others in power as a verifiable source of knowledge. In the unlikely eventuality that genetic tests are routinely used to determine rights to citizenship in Israel, the foregrounding of Jewish genes as the basis of Israeli citizenship would be a novel form of governmentality. We would be seeing the management and administration of populations and citizens by their states through ethnic genetics.
CONCLUSION

The Yakerson case revealed that the State of Israel may rely on genetic tests as proof of Jewishness. A genetic definition of Jewishness, however, breaks with traditionalhalakhic law and reconfigures the terms of authentic belonging in the Jewish State.
Although DNA testing may offer the possibility of legitimation, for Yakerson, genetic testing was used as a barrier to prevent access for someone who meets the expansive definition laid out in the Law of Return, but still was not ‘Jewish enough’. Although Masha was ultimately denied access to the 10-day Birthright trip to Israel, her older sister, Dina, reportedly immigrated to Israel as an oleh in 1990.75 In this case, the turn to genetics failed to provide an accurate measure of familial connections.
There are several ways to interpret the Israeli government's increasing reliance on genetic testing to determine eligibility for citizenship or other rights. It could be a trend toward more restrictive immigration policies that seek to guard access to state resources.76 Advocates have seen similarly restrictive policies advanced to require Jewish verification from those seeking temporary student or work visas.77 One rabbi, who helps potential immigrants navigate the rabbinic bureaucracy, explained this as xenophobia: ‘It manifests itself in the way we treat people born Jewish who don't fit the description of what a Jew should look like’.78
The tests may also become a means to expand the pool of potential new Jewish immigrants who have verifiable ancestral ties.79 Jewish genetic tests could become a way to recognize different and broader articulations of Jewish identity and thereby expand the limits of who is deemed to have legitimate connections. The potential move to legally recognize genetic tests for Jewishness could equally shift some of the authority away from the rabbis, and toward scientists, who may recognize secular manifestations of Jewish identity.
Although genetic tests for Jewishness may have been intended to increase certainty and validate Jewish identity, they may provoke more confusion by adding another layer of definitional uncertainty. On the one hand, the existence of Jewish DNA could verify Jewish connections and provide the requisite proof to grant certain individuals access to citizenship and its associated benefits. On the other hand, it is worth paying attention to who might be excluded—those who claim belonging within the Jewish community but do not have genetic links to prove this biological connection, as well as those who will be granted limited access via citizenship but who will not be recognized as equal members of the Jewish nation. It remains to be seen how this new categorization will bear on notions of belonging and legitimacy within the Jewish community. In the area of Jewish identity—already fraught with definitional ambiguity —this attempt to concretize what it means to be a Jew in genetic terms adds another layer of contestation and confusion. Crucially, the latest efforts to define Jewishness in genetic terms have not yielded the certainty that the State seeks over how to determine who is a Jew.

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Tuesday, July 09, 2019


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Common Dreams

'Never Again Means Close the Camps!': Hundreds of Jewish Activists Surround ICE Office to Protest Trump Detention Centers

"We have a responsibility as a people whose history included these kinds of atrocities to identify the signs and prevent them from happening."




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Hundreds of Jewist activists rallied in Chicago on Monday to demand closure of President Donald Trump's immigrant detention centers. (Photo: Julia Gerasimenko/Twitter)



Hundreds of Jewish activists and allies took to the streets in Chicago and surrounded a local ICE office on Monday to demand the closure of President Donald Trump's detention camps, where immigrants have been forced to endure inhumane conditions and abuse from Border Patrol guards.
"Never again means close the camps!" demonstrators chanted as they marched down the streets of Chicago.
Rallying outside the Chicago ICE building, protestors hoisted signs that read "There is blood on your hands" and began singing and praying:
Demonstrators also shut down the entrances of the Chicago Federal Building, condemning Illinois Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth for voting for legislation that handed the Trump administration $4.6 billion in border funding without any safeguards for immigrant children.
"We have a simple demand: no more money for roundups, close the camps, shut down ICE," tweeted the grassroots Jewish advocacy group Never Again Action, which organized the demonstrations.
The action on Monday was part of a growing nationwide campaign by progressive Jewish activists to condemn the Trump administration's anti-immigrant policies and detention centers, which have been described as concentration camps by lawmakers and scholars.
As Common Dreams reported last week, more than 30 Jewish activists were arrested for blocking the road to a migrant detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
"We

have a responsibility as a people whose history included these kinds of atrocities to identify the signs and prevent them from happening," Alyssa Rubin, a 25-year-old Jewish activist from Boston and one of the lead organizers of Never Again Action, toldHuffPost. "If you've ever said, 'Never again,' or if you've ever wondered what you would have done if you were alive during the Holocaust, this is the time."




https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...office-protest

THEY DID IT. LOOKS FAIRLY LARGE ALSO. FB said 416 going. Hard to tell how many showed but that 1 sidewalk shot looks like there were hundreds there. NOT 1 WORD ANYWHERE on the Chicago MSM about this. NO TV COVERAGE. NO NEWSPAPER COVERAGE EITHER!!!!! WHY ARE THEY HIDING THIS????? It was a substantial protest and they blocked some doorways to the Chicago Federal building and not 1 WORD ANYWHERE on any of the Chicago MSM news outlet web sites. 100% TOTAL CONTROLLED ORWELLIAN NEWS in this nation. For some reason they didn't want this protest to get publicity?????

Send all these illegals to Israel, they will protest that too!!!