Ask your synagogue why.
We're trying to get people on an ongoing basis to stand up and politely ask, during services, why their congregation is supporting the state that refers to itself as "Israel". This works best if you're a member or a regular attendee of a temple, or if you have some historic connection to a synagogue, such as having grown up there, attended a day school, or having been bar or bat mitzvah-ed there. I've never been in any synagogue, ever, where at some point during the year someone didn't raise their hand and ask a question, politely, about something, during an appropriate point of the service or sermon. I would consider this acceptable in Judaism and having a long precedent. We'd like people to do this, now, as soon as possible, given the present urgency of the situation.
Good questions to ask in temple:
How is starving non-combatants in Gaza to death acceptable under Jewish law?
Is there -any- point at which this synagogue would stop supporting Israel? Does the bombing of churches and hospitals not constitute this point? Does killing people through dehydration not constitute this point? There are those in Israel who are discussing using nuclear and biological weapons if they lose militarily. Does -this- constitute this point?
Do you think this war would have happened if Bibi didn't desperately need some distraction from his imminent prosecution?
Since the Palestinians are, in fact, Ishmaelites and Egyptians, who we are specifically instructed to treat fairly and humanely, what is the moral implication of driving them out of their homes and land since 1948 in direct violation of our laws and the laws of warfare regarding non-combatants?
Can we have a vote of the membership or regular attendees of this community as to whether we should keep supporting the state that calls itself "Israel"? Can we publicly debate this issue? Ask your synagogue why.
When I was growing up, one of the great horrors of World War II was the ghettoization of Warsaw, in which Jews were driven off their land in Poland and the East, confined to a concentration camp in a portion of the city, and murdered first through starvation and later by deportation and execution.
I understand that it's difficult for Jews - especially older Jews - to realize that the Eastern Mediterranean autocracy that calls itself "Israel" has completely lost its mind, and is now run by a coalition of nuthatches: rabid Dungeons & Dragons & Talmud players who would like to be publicly supported by everyone else, especially American taxpayers; vicious, racist, abusive sadists who would gravitate to any neo-fascist reality, anywhere, who enjoy the cloak of legitimacy that a government provides; and their chief gnome, Bibi the Terrible, poster child for little man syndrome, who after thirty-four straight weeks of massive protests against his government decided to start a war so as to try and avoid prison for bribery and corruption charges.
The current state of this war is that the existing ghettoization of Gaza, in which Palestinians (Ishmaelites and Egyptians, for those who still can touch the Bible without catching fire) who had been driven off their land in the Levant, have been confined to a concentration camp in a portion of the city, and are being murdered presently through starvation, later by deportation and execution.
I understand that for those of us who grew up in the Conservaform Collective ("perfect lawns, one child, ignore all demographic realities") or the Orthodidic Alternate Universe ("ITS EIGHTEEN HUNDRED SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP") it's hard to acknowledge that the Zionist dream seems to have been hijacked by sociopaths and crazy people, and that we've been ripped off by scumbags. But the definition of psychological health is an acceptance of reality, and we need to, at some point, realize that the reason most of us don't live in Israel (and why most Israelis want to leave) is because it sucks. Apartheid and slave states usually do.
Oh, and finally: If you hate our sense of humor.
We acknowledge that we have a light touch with all of this absolute brutality. We believe that the Jewish ability to laugh in the face of disaster is a strength, not a weakness. If you hate that we are capable of making fun of autocratic murderers, thieves, and evil, we would point out that the Adversary hates laughter. We would also recommend you to the current Eastern Mediterranean autocracy that calls itself "Israel", as they just bulldozed someone's pizza shop and house in Palestine for a meme making fun of this insanity. To the best of my knowledge, they did not check whether anyone was in the building before they destroyed it, by the way. This is pretty similar to what's going in Gaza, where buildings full of non-combatants are leveled during the night, murdering everyone inside.