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Joel Kime's avatar

Yes! This is precisely what I write about in my book Flourishing in Community: A Theology of Togetherness. We are always together, but we are not always together in the right way. In the book I suggest that the kind of togetherness we should apply is something I call flourishing-producing togetherness. https://wipfandstock.com/9798385222322/flourishing-in-community/

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Tristan Lengwiler's avatar

Reminds me of the book called We Do This 'Till We Free Us. It was a transformative book for me.

Thanks for writing

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Jeannette Smyth's avatar

I'd love to see a link to the Esther Project quote on exploiting the fissures in the anti-genocide activists supporting Palestinians. Who would be the people targeted? I'd love to see a script suggesting productive ways to engage with these people and to refute and silence their evil work.

ETA: Many of my questions are answered here, in the Jewish Daily Forward piece.

https://forward.com/opinion/676036/antisemitism-heritage-foundation-project-esther/

Here is the Heritage Foundation Project Esther manual. Fissures quote on p. 5.

https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2024-10/Project%20Esther.pdf

"God gave me Israel" is the riposte of the Israeli genocidaires, claiming it is God's will they commit genocide as usual and genocide by attrition against Gaza and West Bank Palestinians. Here is an explanation of genocide by attrition by a founder of @GenocideStudies (Twitter handle).

https://content.sph.harvard.edu/wwwhsph/sites/2469/2014/03/4-Fein.pdf

Marco Rubio recently condemned the ICC on account of its just charges against Israel. This is serious. What should be our script?

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Melissa Florer-Bixler's avatar

Glad you found it! Jewish Currents has been such a helpful resource

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David Shenk's avatar

Thanks for these comments.

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