Nick Jonas

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Put aside the morals, I also think this is an unbelievably self-defeating and self-destructive path that the state of Israel is on, and I think it's ultimately going to hurt Jewish people around the world.

So I have a stake in it even if I don't live there because the things that are happening there are coming back to my community and biting people that I know and hurting people that I know.

So I think it is absolutely important –

deeply, deeply respect the pro-Palestinian movement.

I think that the Palestinian Americans, Arab Americans, Muslim Americans who are working for Palestine, it's a very important part of the discourse.

And similarly, a pro-Israel Jewish organization is an important part of the discourse because we represent, you know, several million American citizens and we have a say in how these policies are conducted.

And

The way we act in American politics is going to have an impact on how – whether or not we can defeat MAGA and whether or not we can save our own democracy.

These issues interject themselves into the center of American politics, and they may be doing that to the detriment of our future as Americans.

And so –

For all of those reasons, I think it's really important for me and for J Street with our identity front and center, right next to those who are pro-Palestinian and next to the Lebanese American community who's devastated and the Iranian American community that's devastated.

I mean, there's just a lot of people that are citizens of this country who have a deep connection to and care for what happens there and understand how what happens there also comes back and impacts us here.

only if one is not calling out that delusion.

You know, I do not spare any words, right, in terms of describing just how awful these people are and what they're doing, how it violates every shred of my, you know, Jewish moral identity, everything that I've taught my kids about what it means to be a good person and follow the ethics and the morals of our people.

I write about this every week.

I have a sub stack called Word on the Street, and I almost

Every single week I'm writing about the horror and the pain that this causes to believe very deeply in your tradition and the ethics that were handed down from generation to generation and watch the state that's purporting to act in the name of your people violate every single one of those things.

I mean, this is very, very painful.

But I think it's very important that