14 | NOVEMBER 12 • 2020
VIEWS
Each month, the JN will let you know the stories that
were read most often online. If you missed any, you
can go to thejewishnews.com and search for them by
title. Here’
s what was most popular in October.
TOP 10 ON THE WEB
1. Friendship Circle Buys Dakota Bread Company from
Retiring Owners
2. 2020 Election Guide: Lorie Savin
3. Dating During a Pandemic: Local Matchmaker Has Created
More Than 300 Successful Love Stories
4. 2020 Election Guide: Clarence Dass
5. JCC Health Club to Permanently Close
6. Michigan Rabbi Hilariously Runs Through Ann Arbor
Blowing the Shofar
7. Kidney Donor Found on Facebook
8. 2020 Election Guide: John James and the Jews
9. “Devastated and Heartbroken:” Detroit’
s Jewish
Community Reacts to JCC Health Club’
s Closing
10. Jewish Economist with Detroit Roots Awarded 2020
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
TOPS ON FACEBOOK
1. Dakota Bread is Back in Business
2. Friendship Circle Buys Dakota Bread Company from
Retiring Owners
3. Publisher’
s Notebook: A New Era Begins
4. Essay: JCC Memories
5. Danny Raskin: From Siberia to Southfield
TOP 5 ON INSTAGRAM:
1. Friendship Circle Buys Dakota Bread Company from
Retiring Owners
2. High Schooler Creates Fancy Bakery Business While Stuck
at Home
3. Kidney Donor Found on Facebook
4. Michigan Rabbi Hilariously Runs Through Ann Arbor
Blowing the Shofar [VIDEO]
5. Dating During a Pandemic: Local Matchmaker Has Created
More Than 300 Successful Love Stories
The Palestinian Authority
grants hundreds of thousands
of dollars to those who kill
Israelis in terror attacks, and
deems land sales to Jews “high
treason,
” punishable by death.
According to Israel’
s Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, “1,360
people have been killed by
Palestinian violence and terror-
ism since September 2000.
”
Accordingly, many Israelis
fear that “ending the occupa-
tion” of the West Bank would
invite a Hamas takeover of the
territory as it did in Gaza fol-
lowing Israel’
s 2005 withdrawal,
and with it an increased risk of
violence toward Israelis. Such
a situation would likely lead to
further Israeli efforts to defend
its citizens, thus worsening
Palestinian life.
The piece doesn’
t acknowl-
edge Israeli security concerns,
likely because doing so belies
the superficial caricaturizing of
Israel’
s actions as unjustifiably
militaristic and “racist.
”
Any analysis that character-
izes this conflict as an Israeli
Goliath mercilessly oppressing
a Palestinian David does not
tell the whole story. Sadly, it
seems that Driker-Ohren and
Witus would like acceptance of
such a narrative to become a
“progressive” value within the
Jewish community.
Zac Schildcrout is the Managing
Editor of CAMERA on Campus and a
Huntington Woods native.
political rights while the other
deserves none, and without
the notion that Jewish security
can only be achieved through
force, it could not continue.
Since in our Jewish community
we aim to be anti-racist and
anti-militarist, we must there-
fore withdraw our communal
support for the Israeli occupa-
tion and instead back liberty
and equality for all Israelis and
Palestinians.
A BETTER WORLD
As polls repeatedly show, the
vast majority of American Jews
support a two-state solution.
Studies also reveal that more
and more of us believe that
the end of the conflict requires
the evacuation of Jewish-only
settlements in the West Bank.
All this indicates that American
Jews wish to end the occupa-
tion.
We know a better world is
possible. Trailblazing Jews and
Palestinians have already been
laying the foundation, both in
Metro Detroit and in Israel/
Palestine. We now challenge
our communal institutions to
align its policies with the will of
American Jews.
In July 2015, BLM co-found-
er Alicia Garza said, “We want
to see a world where Black
lives matter, in order for us to
get to a world where all of our
humanity is respected.
” Today,
in 2020, courageous Jews and
Palestinians are building a
world where Palestinian lives
matter, in order to get to a
world in which all Israelis and
Palestinians have the right to
self-determination in the place
that they call home.
Rebecca Driker-Ohren and Zak Witus
are members of IfNotNow Detroit.
COMPARISON from page 12
MATTER from page 12
Correction
In “Young Detroiter Gains Success in Hollywood” (Nov. 5, page
31), the high school should have been identified as Frankel
Jewish Academy.
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