Rabbi Margo Hughes-Robinson

As @partners4israel.bsky.social, we believe it’s past time to recognize a Palestinian state alongside Israel. If we feel connection and relationship and pain and love for this place and its peoples, that connection and relationship obligates us to raise our voices and say: enough is enough.

Gaza, says R' @mhughesrob.bsky.social, is now experiencing a a “worst-case scenario of famine", as described by the IPC – the integrated Food Security Phase Classification organization that provides intergovernmental analysis of food security and nutrition analysis all over the world.

It’s beyond time for the US to invest in peacebuilding in Israel & Palestine, not in selling weapons that are specifically used to cause massive harm for military offensives.

Every Israeli and Palestinian deserves safety and freedom, not more war.

www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...

Join us Thursday!

Minister says Israel racing ahead to wipe out Gaza, will make it Jewish * * *

As long as Netanyahu allows this "Jewish Heritage Minister" (perish the thought!) to be a member of his government, then he represents that government and his remarks regarding an official policy of total erasure should be taken literally and seriously.
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Rümeysa’s firsthand account of her experience in an ICE detention center sheds much needed light on how ICE is treating people in their custody. I commend Rümeysa for her resilience and powerful essay.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

a woman with pigtails is smiling and wearing a blue and white dress . ALT: a woman with pigtails is smiling and wearing a blue and white dress .

Sometimes parenting is making big decisions about values or co-regulating through a tantrum, but for some reason this weekend it’s looked like hours spent doing a bad Judy Garland impersonation because kiddo will only respond if I “do the Dorothy voice”

I am so, so proud of the way we’re organizing and standing up for human rights at @partners4israel.bsky.social right now, and so heartbroken for the daily horror we’re witnessing in Gaza.

Karen Diamond, burned in Boulder Pearl Street attack, dies Karen Diamond, one of the people burned in the antisemitic firebombing attack on the Pearl Street Mall earlier this month, died Wednesday, according to a Monday morning email from the Boulder Jewis…

My heart is heavy with the news of Karen Diamond’s passing — may her memory be for a blessing, and the work of her life celebrated. Beyond awful.

www.dailycamera.com/2025/06/30/w...

Proud to be one of 700+ rabbis and the leader of an organization making it clear: people in Gaza need immediate, safe, reliable food aid. #ceasefirenow #bringthemhome

Netanyahu halts north Gaza aid after Smotrich's threat to quit coalition over Hamas access ***

Shameful. Humanitarian aid to civilians is an obligation, not a political football. There were well established aid networks with minimal diversion issues in Gaza already operating, but the Israeli gov’t has elected not to use (or even defund!) them.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

TOMORROW, 6/25, 12:30pm ET. Register @ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... for this expert briefing with Prof Yossi Mekelberg of the renowned thinktank, Chatham House- on what transpired and what lies ahead.
Q&A with the audience will follow an opening discussion with our ED, R' @mhughesrob.bsky.social.

The move to expel Arab party leader from Knesset should rattle Netanyahu's opposition | Opinion ***

“MK Odeh is a man of peace in every fiber of his being. He was born to promote peace between the two peoples. He is among the few in the current Knesset who have emphasized both peoples' rights to a state, to dignity, peace and security.”

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

This kind of media analysis belies the millions of “incentives” to stop: civilians spending the night in shelters in Israel, Iran, and the West Bank; millions of starving Gazans; the casual cruelty of these regimes who care so little for their peoples. Diplomacy Now.

Partners for Progressive Israel Statement Regarding Israel’s Attack on Iran June 13th, 2025 – Partners for Progressive Israel expresses grave concern regarding the Israeli attack on Iran, in particular for all civilian parties and peoples in the region, especially in the con...

War Has No Winners. We urge all parties to recommit to a diplomatic path forward - even, especially, now.
Our response to Israel's attack on Iran is on our website.
www.progressiveisrael.org/june-2025-ir...

Eid and Awdah must be allowed into the US!

The dream team!

THIS THURSDAY, JUNE 12 - two virtual screening times, plus live Q&A after each with director Stephen Apkon and members of the inspirational Combatants for Peace!
"There Is Another Way" is a documentary that demonstrates the power of choosing nonviolence.
Tkts: watch.eventive.org/thereisanoth...

This @haaretzcom.bsky.social editorial is a reminder of the importance of our campaign to cry 'NO' to the "Population Replacement Plan" in the Negev/Naqab. www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...
(Add your name to our sign-on letter at secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/...)

JUNE 12: We're delighted to partner in promoting this Global Livestream for Peace & Humanity, organized by the Reconsider media nonprofit & "There Is Another Way", a film that tells the story of the remarkable Israeli-Palestinian Combatants for Peace. Tickets: watch.eventive.org/thereisanoth...

We are proud to have endorsed this "Resolution Calling for the Urgent Delivery of Humanitarian Aid to Gaza" and an end to its blockade by Israel's govt. Sponsored by @jayapal.house.gov, @raskin.house.gov, @keating.house.gov, @foushee.house.gov, @balint.house.gov. jayapal.house.gov/2025/06/04/j...

Proud to partner in this campaign with the Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages of the Negev, which seeks recognition for existing Bedouin villages and to prevent their demolition. Our 5/28 webinar with RCUV, “Resisting Replacement”, is now online - www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Fu...

Our ED, R' @mhughesrob.bsky.social, is in Israel & Palestine. While there, she paid tribute to the Israelis slain at the Nova massacre on October 7 (top) and gathered with hostage families and others in Jerusalem to demand an end to the war, which will bring back the hostages (bottom).

So grateful to see Edan Alexander arrive home today. Thank G-d.

And— his family should not have had to experience being neglected by Netanyahu, or having Edan’s rescue used to support Trump’s Qatar grift.

Bring all the hostages home now. End the atrocities in Gaza now. Enough, enough, enough.

Breaking the Silence's Luiz Aberbuj & Guy Ben Yehuda Berlfein will discuss the NGO's new report ("The Perimeter”) on Israel's massive op that turned 16% of an already overcrowded Gaza into Israel’s new “security space.” Our ED R' @mhughesrob.bsky.social will moderate. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Our statement on Israel's announced military escalation in Gaza.
Poll after poll in Israel have clearly shown, it should be noted, that the vast majority of Israelis are, like us, opposed to Netanyahu's war and its expansion.
Also on our website, at www.progressiveisrael.org/partners-for...

We had no idea we’d wake up this morning and and have this conversation feel all the more timely and terrifying. So grateful for BTS for the incredible truth telling work they continue to foster.

The Bible Commands: Solidarity Forever ✊ The One With The Labor Justice Torah

HAPPY MAY DAY ✊🍞🌹

Here’s a whole thing on the labor justice imperatives in Judaism:

Detained on verge of U.S. citizenship, Mohsen Mahdawi speaks from Vermont prison Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."

Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."

Rep Nadler at Ben Gvir protest

Rep. Jerry Nadler at protest against Itamar Ben Gvir:

Ben Gvir is the antithesis of everything American Jews stand for.

(& calls him out for inciting settler violence)