Rabbi Jonathan Miller of Birmingham, AL deliverered a powerful talk to a local Presbyterian group regarding the recent decision of that church to divest from Israel:
I know that most of you disagree with this Overture of divestment from your national organization. I am not here to holler at you or scream or carry on. Most of you agree with me anyway. Instead, I am here for you to hear what it is like to be me, to be a member of my people. I want you to understand the pain I feel when my homeland, which has never known a single day of peace or acceptance in the world of nations, which has had to defend itself against the hatred of fanatical enemies, is declared as a legitimate target by the people who are my friends, my co-lovers, and my colleagues in making the world better and more just and more Godly. I want you to understand my abandonment and my loneliness. That’s all. Just understand what it feels like to be me and my people, to lose our friends, to have to fight alone.
