On a soul – Daniella Peled in Haaretz:

‘A public letter critical of Israel's war in Gaza signed by dozens of members of the representative body of British Jewry has exposed deep fissures in the community over Israel.
Community representatives say the furor goes to the heart of who genuinely represents Anglo-Jewry, with time-honored lines of communication between Israel and mainstream Jewish organizations now being bypassed.
Published in the Financial Times on April 16 and signed by 36 deputies – as the elected members of the representative body are known – the letter excoriates the actions of "this most extremist of Israeli governments," and warns that "Israel's soul is being ripped out."

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‘"This is just airing our dirty linen in public," says Nicole Lampert, a freelance journalist and Jewish Chronicle columnist. "The letter reflects conversations going on across the Jewish world, but is it going to make things better for those in the Diaspora suffering from appalling levels of antisemitism? We're a community in a huge amount of pain, and this is just picking at the scab."
But as the celebrated Anglo-Jewish writer Chaim Bermant wrote decades ago: "One is always accused of 'washing dirty linen in public' and of 'giving ammunition to our enemies. … But if linen isn't washed in public, it isn't washed in private either and is generally allowed to accumulate until it stinks to heaven."’

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‘According to July 2024 polling by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, around two-thirds of British Jews (65 per cent) identify as Zionist, although they are increasingly worried about the state of Israeli democracy.
Polling also shows some division in attitudes between secular and more Orthodox Jews, with the communal leadership long dominated by more conservative and religious figures who tend to be more reluctant to criticize the Jewish state.’

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‘In the United Kingdom, where the Jewish community is very well established and organized, that process has long run seamlessly, with clear channels of dialogue on issues ranging from antisemitism to the Israel-Palestine conflict. If this situation changes, Israel may not be able to rely on the staunch Diaspora support it has long taken for granted.’

Read the article here.

Absolutely, is the linen isn’t washed in public it isn’t washed at all.

Real existing Zionism (Israel) will divide Judaism, it has become new Sabbatai Zevi, this disguised as nation state.

The washing of the real dirty linen hasn’t even started.