Cartoon that appeared with a letter to the American Jewish community signed by academics and other public figures from Israel/Palestine and abroad calling on U.S. Jews to address the “elephant in the room”: Israeli apartheid.

Cartoon that appeared with letter signed by 750 academics and other public figures from Israel/Palestine and abroad, calling on U.S. Jews to address the “elephant in the room”: Israeli apartheid. The letter calls on U.S. Jews “to embrace equality for Jews and Palestinians” inside Israel and in the occupied territories.

"American Jews have long been at the forefront of social justice causes, from racial equality to abortion rights, but have paid insufficient attention to the elephant in the room: Israel’s long-standing occupation that, we repeat, has yielded a regime of apartheid. As Israel has grown more right-wing and come under the spell of the current government’s messianic, homophobic, and misogynistic agenda, young American Jews have grown more and more alienated from it. Meanwhile, American Jewish billionaire funders help support the Israeli far right."   The Elephant in the Room