{"id":946,"date":"2013-09-06T00:24:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T05:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/?p=946"},"modified":"2013-09-06T00:24:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T05:24:42","slug":"talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/2013\/09\/talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking about Israel at the Greenbelt Festival in the UK – a Yom Kippur Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Dear Subscribers,<\/p>\n

I\u2019m back. \u00a0It\u2019s been a long time. \u00a0Where have I been? \u00a0Helping found and run Kairos USA<\/a>, writing a new book,<\/a> and moving from Washington DC to wonderful Portland OR. Lots of travel, in the US and internationally. \u00a0So there is a bit of catching up to do. \u00a0I\u2019ll begin by working backwards and posting something from my time last week in the UK at the Greenbelt Festival<\/a>. How to describe Greenbelt? \u00a0How about as a Woodstock for followers of Jesus? \u2014 a 4-day gathering of over 20,000 people of all ages that has been held annually for 40 years. \u00a0I was honored to have been invited to give some talks and to participate in the launch of Kairos Britain.<\/a> A future post on the emerging global kairos movement is in store. \u00a0For now, I\u2019ll use this this posting to share a bit about the stir that was caused by Greenbelt\u2019s invitation of me and others (including Sami Awad of Holy Land Trust) to speak, and the Festival\u2019s hosting of the Kairos Britain launch. \u00a0The Council of Christians and Jews, a UK advocacy group that, in close coordination with the Board of Jewish Deputies \u2014 a Jewish advocacy group that bears some resemblance to our Anti-Defamation League \u2014 created a lot of critical press in advance of the Greenbelt Festival, claiming that it presented a biased and unbalanced view of Israel. \u00a0They also accused me, and by implication the Festival, of fostering anti-Semitic attitudes and speech. The full statement is here<\/a>. \u00a0Very worthwhile reading is the excellent response<\/a> by Robert Cohen, a British Jew who I had the pleasure to meet and hear speak at Greenbelt and who puts out a very fine blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for further postings. \u00a0In the meantime, timed to coincide with the Jewish High Holy Days, here is my response to the CCJ\u2019s charge that in challenging Zionism I have committed a \u201csweeping rejection of traditional Jewish teaching\u201d and revived \u201cthe oldest form of Christian anti-Judaism.\u201d<\/p>\n

RESPONSE TO CCJ STATEMENT ON ISRAEL\/PALESTINE PROGRAMMING BY GREENBELT<\/strong><\/p>\n

In its recent comments on my remarks at the 2013 Greenbelt Festival, Council of Christians and Jews has charged that in asserting that the actions of the State of Israel are immoral, I am laying \u201ccollective guilt\u201d upon the Jewish people and as such I am committing \u201cthe oldest form of Christian anti-Judaism (How as a Jew I can do such a thing is an interesting question. Is CCJ suggesting that I am no longer a Jew, the implied question being: can one say the things I am saying about Israel and still be a Jew? \u2014 but that is another discussion). The reference to collective guilt is of course an allusion to the historic deicide charge, the assignment to the entire Jewish people, in perpetuity, responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus.\u00a0 The evocation of the deicide charge in this context is something that gets my blood boiling. It\u2019s a particularly ugly bit of Christian-Jewish history, something that caused my people untold suffering over the ages. Furthermore, it is a distortion of history and indeed of Christian theology that is a great Christian sin, not only against the Jews but against the heart of the Gospels. Apologists for the State of Israel\u2019s illegal and immoral acts invoke this particular bit of Jewish-Christian history when they want to bring out the heavy artillery against those who challenge the status quo of unconditional support for Israel. Do they do this cynically, knowing full well the logical absurdity of connecting criticism of Israel with blaming Jews for the crucifixion and choosing to play this card because they know the effect it will have on Christians, or do they actually believe this?\u00a0 The first option makes me angry. The second makes me deeply sad. The fact that apologists or \u201cdefenders\u201d of the State of Israel, and this includes not only professional advocates like those at CCJ but also some Jewish academics and clergy, appear unable to make a distinction between taking responsibility for current Jewish sins and the charge that the Jews killed Jesus \u2013 or, by the way, between the Palestinian call for boycott divestment and sanctions and the Nazi anti-Jewish laws \u2014 is an indication of how stuck we are in our past suffering and how catastrophic this is for the Jewish people today.<\/p>\n

Robert Cohen has done a superb job of responding to CCJ\u2019s charges, speaking for himself and \u2013 not officially but in my view very much in spirit \u2013 on behalf of the Greenbelt organizers, and I cannot add to or improve on what he has written in his blog, Micah\u2019s Paradigm Shift<\/a>.\u00a0 I will however, point out that I have been misquoted and will offer a few words about that.<\/p>\n

CCJ has misquoted me as saying the following at Greenbelt:<\/p>\n

\u201cMy people behind that wall \u2013 and I include Jews outside of Israel as well, because the wall is psychological and it is spiritual \u2013 have learned to hate.\u201d<\/p>\n

What I said was in the context of a discussion about the effect of the wall on the Jews of Israel.\u00a0 I said that the Jews living behind the Separation wall (that is what Israel calls it \u2014 in Hebrew, hafrada \u2014 <\/em>separation, which can also be translated apartheid)<\/em> are in a sense the most profound victims of the barrier.\u00a0 My point \u2014 made in the context of my story of the Palestinian child who asks her mother, \u201cWhy do they make the Jews live behind that wall?\u201d \u2014 is that the wall may be stealing Palestinian land, but what the child sees is that it is really stealing the Jews\u2019 souls. I did not say that the Jews \u201chave learned to hate.\u201d\u00a0 My words were: \u201cThey live behind a wall of soul-killing racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a nuanced difference but it\u2019s key.\u00a0 My point was not to characterize Jews as hate-filled or acting in a hateful way. It is the wall that is the subject of my words, not the attitudes of Jews about Palestinians.\u00a0 I am not commenting about Jewish character or beliefs, but about the structure <\/em>of separation and occupation that creates the conditions under which people learn to hate and fear.\u00a0 Living behind a wall such as that constructed by Israel effectively makes people into racists.\u00a0 And the point is that Israelis don\u2019t see themselves that way.\u00a0 The ugly comments you can hear Israelis making about Palestinians (dirty, thieves, bad parents) and the fear-based beliefs (they want to kill all of us, they hate us, want to push us into the sea) originate because they do not know the Palestinians.\u00a0 That\u2019s what the wall does, and it does it with chilling and horrible effectiveness. Israelis don\u2019t know that they are racists any more than the Afrikaners identified themselves as such.\u00a0 I have a friend raised in South Africa, of old Afrikaner stock, who tells me, \u201cI didn\u2019t know about apartheid growing up. In a sense there was no apartheid for me.\u00a0 It was the air I breathed, the water I swam in.\u201d\u00a0 The American soldiers who went off to fight in Vietnam, returning shattered psychologically and spiritually because of what they witnessed and in many cases what they did, did not identify the Vietnamese soldiers and civilians as human beings \u2013 they were \u201cgooks\u201d\u00a0 \u2014 a less-than-human enemy towards whom the American values and even laws governing respect for human life and dignity did not apply. This is what Israel needs to be rescued from, and we only have to look to the Jewish prophets and to the Gospels to find the roadmap for that rescue mission:\u00a0 speaking truth to power and nonviolent resistance.<\/p>\n

So besides my horror and my anger about what Israel is doing, my heart hurts for my people.\u00a0 And out of that I call for the wall to come down and for Israel to become something that is sustainable (the current course is a fast lane to self destruction \u2014 morally, politically, spiritually) and that can provide a decent future for its citizens.<\/p>\n

This week begins the holiest season in the Jewish calendar.\u00a0 In ten days time Jews the world over will stand in the synagogue on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), beat their breasts (literally \u2013 we do this) and recite the vidui<\/em> \u2013 the confessional prayer:\u00a0 We have sinned, we have betrayed, we have stolen, we have spoken falsely\u2026 <\/em>It is a confession recited in the first person plural \u2013 and only so. <\/em>Indeed, unless there is no other option, Jews are required to stand before God as a member of the congregation, of the collective whole of the people.\u00a0 We pray as a collective, we confess as a people.\u00a0 We take responsibility for ourselves as a people.\u00a0 What Israel does in my name is my responsibility and I have the right and the duty to speak to it, not only to my own people but to Christians, who, in following the teachings of that prophetic and fiercely faithful Galilean Jew of 2000 years ago, share the responsibility to seek justice, love mercy, walk humbly, and above all to put compassion for those who are suffering today \u2013 \u201cthe least of these my brothers\u201d in Jesus\u2019 words, above all other responsibilities.<\/p>\n

Next week Jews will stand before the Ark of the Covenant in countless synagogues and pray for forgiveness.\u00a0 When I do that I will, like every other Jew in the synagogue on Yom Kippur, have in front of me physically the scrolls of the law, but in reality what I stand before is an 8 meter-high wall of concrete and steel that now stands between me and my maker, between me and my faith, and between me and my sisters and brothers in Palestine who in their call for justice and coexistence are calling me \u2013 and my Christian brothers and sisters in the UK and around the world \u2013 to faithfulness.\u00a0 We Jews can be forgiven for our sins \u2013 this is without question \u2013 but we must begin by acknowledging them.<\/p>\n

Mark Braverman<\/p>\n

September 4, 2013<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m back! It\u2019s been a long time – there is a bit of catching up to do, and I\u2019ll begin by posting something from my time last week in the UK at the Greenbelt Festival. How to describe Greenbelt? How about as a Woodstock for followers of Jesus? \u2014 a 4-day gathering of over 20,000 people of all ages that has been held annually for 40 years. I was honored to have been invited to give some talks and to participate in the launch of Kairos Britain\u2026The Council of Christians and Jews, a UK advocacy group that bears some resemblance to our Anti-Defamation League, accused me, and by implication the Festival, of fostering anti-Semitic attitudes and speech, [charging] that in challenging Zionism \u2026I am laying \u201ccollective guilt\u201d upon the Jewish people and as such I am committing \u201cthe oldest form of Christian anti-Judaism.” The reference to collective guilt is of course an allusion to the historic deicide charge, the assignment to the entire Jewish people, in perpetuity, responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus. The evocation of the deicide charge in this context is something that gets my blood boiling…(click on link above to read the entire post). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-braverman"],"yoast_head":"\nTalking about Israel at the Greenbelt Festival in the UK - a Yom Kippur Meditation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I\u2019m back! It\u2019s been a long time - there is a bit of catching up to do, and I\u2019ll begin by posting something from my time last week in the UK at the Greenbelt Festival. How to describe Greenbelt? How about as a Woodstock for followers of Jesus? \u2014 a 4-day gathering of over 20,000 people of all ages that has been held annually for 40 years. I was honored to have been invited to give some talks and to participate in the launch of Kairos Britain\u2026The Council of Christians and Jews, a UK advocacy group that bears some resemblance to our Anti-Defamation League, accused me, and by implication the Festival, of fostering anti-Semitic attitudes and speech, that in challenging Zionism \u2026I am laying \u201ccollective guilt\u201d upon the Jewish people and as such I am committing \u201cthe oldest form of Christian anti-Judaism." The reference to collective guilt is of course an allusion to the historic deicide charge, the assignment to the entire Jewish people, in perpetuity, responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus. The evocation of the deicide charge in this context is something that gets my blood boiling...(click on link above to read the entire post).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/2013\/09\/talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Talking about Israel at the Greenbelt Festival in the UK - a Yom Kippur Meditation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I\u2019m back! It\u2019s been a long time - there is a bit of catching up to do, and I\u2019ll begin by posting something from my time last week in the UK at the Greenbelt Festival. How to describe Greenbelt? How about as a Woodstock for followers of Jesus? \u2014 a 4-day gathering of over 20,000 people of all ages that has been held annually for 40 years. I was honored to have been invited to give some talks and to participate in the launch of Kairos Britain\u2026The Council of Christians and Jews, a UK advocacy group that bears some resemblance to our Anti-Defamation League, accused me, and by implication the Festival, of fostering anti-Semitic attitudes and speech, that in challenging Zionism \u2026I am laying \u201ccollective guilt\u201d upon the Jewish people and as such I am committing \u201cthe oldest form of Christian anti-Judaism." The reference to collective guilt is of course an allusion to the historic deicide charge, the assignment to the entire Jewish people, in perpetuity, responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus. The evocation of the deicide charge in this context is something that gets my blood boiling...(click on link above to read the entire post).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/2013\/09\/talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Politics of Hope\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-09-06T05:24:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Braverman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Braverman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/2013\/09\/talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/2013\/09\/talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation\/\",\"name\":\"Talking about Israel at the Greenbelt Festival in the UK - a Yom Kippur Meditation\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-09-06T05:24:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-09-06T05:24:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/#\/schema\/person\/ddde765a07280370f9ac79694264f74e\"},\"description\":\"I\u2019m back! It\u2019s been a long time - there is a bit of catching up to do, and I\u2019ll begin by posting something from my time last week in the UK at the Greenbelt Festival. How to describe Greenbelt? How about as a Woodstock for followers of Jesus? \u2014 a 4-day gathering of over 20,000 people of all ages that has been held annually for 40 years. I was honored to have been invited to give some talks and to participate in the launch of Kairos Britain\u2026The Council of Christians and Jews, a UK advocacy group that bears some resemblance to our Anti-Defamation League, accused me, and by implication the Festival, of fostering anti-Semitic attitudes and speech, that in challenging Zionism \u2026I am laying \u201ccollective guilt\u201d upon the Jewish people and as such I am committing \u201cthe oldest form of Christian anti-Judaism.\\\" The reference to collective guilt is of course an allusion to the historic deicide charge, the assignment to the entire Jewish people, in perpetuity, responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus. The evocation of the deicide charge in this context is something that gets my blood boiling...(click on link above to read the entire post).\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/2013\/09\/talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/2013\/09\/talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/2013\/09\/talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Talking about Israel at the Greenbelt Festival in the UK – a Yom Kippur Meditation\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/\",\"name\":\"The Politics of Hope\",\"description\":\"A Jewish Voice for Justice in Palestine\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/#\/schema\/person\/ddde765a07280370f9ac79694264f74e\",\"name\":\"Mark Braverman\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5a81fb515311db5ad90de203b3b8e22d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5a81fb515311db5ad90de203b3b8e22d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Mark Braverman\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/author\/mbraverman\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Talking about Israel at the Greenbelt Festival in the UK - a Yom Kippur Meditation","description":"I\u2019m back! It\u2019s been a long time - there is a bit of catching up to do, and I\u2019ll begin by posting something from my time last week in the UK at the Greenbelt Festival. How to describe Greenbelt? How about as a Woodstock for followers of Jesus? \u2014 a 4-day gathering of over 20,000 people of all ages that has been held annually for 40 years. I was honored to have been invited to give some talks and to participate in the launch of Kairos Britain\u2026The Council of Christians and Jews, a UK advocacy group that bears some resemblance to our Anti-Defamation League, accused me, and by implication the Festival, of fostering anti-Semitic attitudes and speech, that in challenging Zionism \u2026I am laying \u201ccollective guilt\u201d upon the Jewish people and as such I am committing \u201cthe oldest form of Christian anti-Judaism.\" The reference to collective guilt is of course an allusion to the historic deicide charge, the assignment to the entire Jewish people, in perpetuity, responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus. The evocation of the deicide charge in this context is something that gets my blood boiling...(click on link above to read the entire post).","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/2013\/09\/talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Talking about Israel at the Greenbelt Festival in the UK - a Yom Kippur Meditation","og_description":"I\u2019m back! It\u2019s been a long time - there is a bit of catching up to do, and I\u2019ll begin by posting something from my time last week in the UK at the Greenbelt Festival. How to describe Greenbelt? How about as a Woodstock for followers of Jesus? \u2014 a 4-day gathering of over 20,000 people of all ages that has been held annually for 40 years. I was honored to have been invited to give some talks and to participate in the launch of Kairos Britain\u2026The Council of Christians and Jews, a UK advocacy group that bears some resemblance to our Anti-Defamation League, accused me, and by implication the Festival, of fostering anti-Semitic attitudes and speech, that in challenging Zionism \u2026I am laying \u201ccollective guilt\u201d upon the Jewish people and as such I am committing \u201cthe oldest form of Christian anti-Judaism.\" The reference to collective guilt is of course an allusion to the historic deicide charge, the assignment to the entire Jewish people, in perpetuity, responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus. The evocation of the deicide charge in this context is something that gets my blood boiling...(click on link above to read the entire post).","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/2013\/09\/talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation\/","og_site_name":"The Politics of Hope","article_published_time":"2013-09-06T05:24:42+00:00","author":"Mark Braverman","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mark Braverman","Est. reading time":"8 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/2013\/09\/talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/2013\/09\/talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation\/","name":"Talking about Israel at the Greenbelt Festival in the UK - a Yom Kippur Meditation","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-09-06T05:24:42+00:00","dateModified":"2013-09-06T05:24:42+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/#\/schema\/person\/ddde765a07280370f9ac79694264f74e"},"description":"I\u2019m back! It\u2019s been a long time - there is a bit of catching up to do, and I\u2019ll begin by posting something from my time last week in the UK at the Greenbelt Festival. How to describe Greenbelt? How about as a Woodstock for followers of Jesus? \u2014 a 4-day gathering of over 20,000 people of all ages that has been held annually for 40 years. I was honored to have been invited to give some talks and to participate in the launch of Kairos Britain\u2026The Council of Christians and Jews, a UK advocacy group that bears some resemblance to our Anti-Defamation League, accused me, and by implication the Festival, of fostering anti-Semitic attitudes and speech, that in challenging Zionism \u2026I am laying \u201ccollective guilt\u201d upon the Jewish people and as such I am committing \u201cthe oldest form of Christian anti-Judaism.\" The reference to collective guilt is of course an allusion to the historic deicide charge, the assignment to the entire Jewish people, in perpetuity, responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus. The evocation of the deicide charge in this context is something that gets my blood boiling...(click on link above to read the entire post).","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/2013\/09\/talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/2013\/09\/talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/2013\/09\/talking-about-israel-at-the-greenbelt-festival-in-the-uk-a-yom-kippur-meditation\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Talking about Israel at the Greenbelt Festival in the UK – a Yom Kippur Meditation"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/","name":"The Politics of Hope","description":"A Jewish Voice for Justice in Palestine","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/#\/schema\/person\/ddde765a07280370f9ac79694264f74e","name":"Mark Braverman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5a81fb515311db5ad90de203b3b8e22d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5a81fb515311db5ad90de203b3b8e22d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Mark Braverman"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/author\/mbraverman\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markbraverman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}