Louie Siegel describes how Delta Airlines threatened to kick him off a plane over his “Jews Say Ceasefire Now” T-shirt.
A young traveler stops to look at a Delta Airlines plane parked at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on June 28, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.Since the onset of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza in October 2023, there has been a dramatic rise inagainst Palestinians and allies who publicly speak out in favor of a ceasefire.
Simply put, I wore the shirt to honor my Jewish ancestors. They escaped antisemitic hatred in Eastern Europe and became involved in leftist anti-racist and anti-capitalist activism in the United States. My maternal grandparents were involved in the Civil Rights Movement and the anti-poverty movement of the mid-twentieth century.
I, as a proud Jewish American, have chosen to stand in solidarity with Palestinians because Zionism does not have a monopoly over Judaism. The insistence, often cultish in nature, that Jewish people should inherently support Israel represents to me a criminal reduction of a beautiful way of life. We hear talk about fighting for the soul of the country. Right now, the Jewish community is at war over what the soul of Jewishness will look like in this century.
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