“The notion that nationalism will keep Jews safe is ahistorical—a modern fable, a simplistic and reductive reflex. Increasingly the Israeli state defines itself by its willingness to visit hell upon Palestinians, sabotaging the kind of multiracial solidarity that is the heart of any real liberation story. “Liberation itself is sacred. To come out of bondage is to discover God, even if you don’t call it by that name. To exult in freedom is to reclaim the divine image that has been robbed from you by your oppressor,” writes Rabbi Arthur Green in Judaism for the World. Rabbi Green acknowledges that many of us are still stuck in Egypt, robbed of our ability to realize freedom. “[We] must remember that the gift of liberation was not given only that we might sit back and enjoy its blessings…That has to mean active concern for the liberation of others. We cannot make an exception when there is a conflict between their liberation and the self-interest of the Jewish people.””
— Shane Burley, Liberation Itself Is Sacred
