Far too often these days, we see horrific images of the ongoing dispossession of Palestinians in the West Bank at the hands of Jewish settlers, often passively or actively backed by the Israeli army. Witnessing this reality shakes me to my core. I am angry, I am ashamed, and I want nothing more than to look away.

But we cannot and we will not allow ourselves to shrink from taking responsibility for ending Jewish terrorism in the West Bank. And we cannot allow ourselves to sink into apathy or to fold in the face of evil. And we need not either.

When we zoom out of those images, of violent settlers perpetrating pogroms on the lives of civilians, we also see a reason for hope.

Israeli Jews, young and old, from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds, are standing shoulder to shoulder with Palestinians, doing everything they can to prevent these attacks. Over the last months, these individuals have become a movement. They put their personal safety on the line to offer Palestinians a protective presence, a nonviolent safeguard to try to block these assaults.

Next week, the New Israel Fund will bring three leaders from this movement to the United States. Or, Maya, and........

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