{"id":395449,"date":"2019-02-07T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-progressive-except-palestine-problem-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2019-02-07T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:00:08","slug":"the-progressive-except-palestine-problem-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-progressive-except-palestine-problem-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"The Progressive Except Palestine Problem \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Jewish community has a special responsibility to fight Israel\u2019s illegal occupation of Palestinian lands, says Marjorie Cohn.<\/span><\/p>\n

By<\/span> Marjorie Cohn<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
<\/span>Truthout<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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I am hopeful that the\u00a0firestorm<\/a><\/span>\u00a0sparked by Michelle Alexander\u2019s recent New York Times<\/em> column<\/a>,<\/span> \u201cTime to Break the Silence on Palestine,\u201d will finally generate the heat necessary to force more people and groups on the left to overcome the fundamental hypocrisy of the \u201cprogressive except Palestine\u201d approach.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was deeply inspired by Alexander\u2019s column and her decision to speak so honestly about the difficulty of overcoming the fear of backlash over taking a public stand against the Israeli occupation of Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Michelle