I'm participating in the #BlackFriday14 action tomorrow, praying desperately that the focus remains true to the principles of #BlackLivesMatter. Conflation of American systemic racism with the plight of Palestinians: makes it impossible for Jewish BLM activists who love Israel to share in the work ignores the wide historical differences between the UN Charter that established two states for two Peoples and slavery denies the foundational universalism and democracy of Zionism and the right of Israel to exist confuses the difficulty of living under the daily threat of violent terrorism against Israelis with the intent to deny human rights to Palestinians ignores the many Israeli/Palestinian peacemakers whose work could be the very model for American healing we need makes it infinitely harder for liberal Zionists to do the internal work necessary to end the Occupation of the West Bank and work on Israeli Democracy, Israeli Arab rights, and peace.