Rabbi Condemns Israel’s Treatment of Palestinian Children

Shaarei Shamayim
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Rabbi​​ Laurie Zimmerman, who leads a congregation in Wisconsin, is exhorting her fellow Jews to support ending the violence ​​against Palestinian minors by​ what she calls​ the “brutal Israeli occupation”.  ​Each year, an estimated 700 Palestinian children aged 12 to 17 are arrested, interrogated, and detained by Israeli army, police, and security agents. ​In many cases, their treatment is brutal.  ​​Zimmerman supports ​proposed US ​legislation that would prohibit ​American ​taxpayer dollars from being used to support the military detention, interrogation, or abuse of Palestinian children​ that now is being​ carried out in violation of international law.​ -GEG​

A mother and father panic as soldiers burst into their home, pull their teenage son out of bed, handcuff and blindfold him, and drive away with him, leaving them with no information about where he is going, what he is accused of, or when they will see him again. The soldiers interrogate him for hours with no access to a lawyer or parent present. His requests for food and water, or use of a toilet, are denied. Terrified, he is subjected to physical and verbal abuse and he is detained for weeks or more in pretrial detention. He has no knowledge of his rights, and he signs a confession written in a language he does not understand. He will do anything to return to his family.

It’s a parent’s worst nightmare. Yet this nightmare is a reality for hundreds of Palestinian parents whose children, sometimes as young as 12-years-old, are arrested and interrogated by Israeli soldiers in the occupied Palestinian territories.

My heart breaks when I read these stories. No parent — and no child — should have to endure this kind of trauma. I feel a particular responsibility to speak up not only as an American citizen whose tax dollars support the occupation’s infrastructure, but also as a rabbi who believes in the inherent dignity and worth of all human beings. As a leader within the American Jewish community, which pours extraordinary resources into Israel, we should be the first to stand up and condemn Israel’s unjust treatment of children, making sure that funding to Israel does not go to support for human rights abuses.

That is why I applaud Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) for introducing legislation on November 14 seeking to guarantee that the annual aid provided by the US government to Israel is not used for the detention of Palestinian children. The bill, Promoting Human Rights by Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act, would prohibit taxpayer dollars from being used to support the military detention, interrogation, or abuse of Palestinian children carried out in violation of international law.

I have traveled to Palestinian villages in the West Bank several times, and spent a fair amount of time with Palestinian children and teenagers. I shudder when I think that they could be among the thousands of young Palestinians who have suffered from this systematic abuse. These children are like any children; they are learning to navigate their world, explore the consequences of their actions, and build relationships with their peers. They can be impulsive, absent-minded, and oblivious to others in one minute and empathetic, thoughtful, and full of laughter in the next.

They are also quite different from children who grow up in relative safety. They are forced to learn survival skills under the weight of the Israeli military occupation — skills my children will hopefully never have to learn. Skills like how to pass through a checkpoint to get to school, how to avoid settlers who taunt them, how to endure curfews that keep them cooped up for days. Skills like how to wake up, day after day, when they, or their loved ones, have been forcibly taken into military detention, tortured, and imprisoned.

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