A growing group of young Jews formed Never Again Action to protest the mistreatment of migrants in ICE detention.
, nearly 300 children were removed after it was reported they had no access to showers for extended periods of time, insufficient food and were lacking in other basic necessities.saw the conditions Never Again Action is protesting when he visited two federal detention centers in Texas.
But some Jews stood by her comments. Sophie Hurwitz, a 20-year-old Wellesley College student who was arrested at the Elizabeth, NJ protest, said she also calls the detention centers “concentration camps,” but doesn’t think that’s the most important part of the conversation. Sarah Giskin, 25, who helped plan the action in Philadelphia said she feels like Jews are being used as “pawns” in the debate about how to speak about the government’s treatment of migrants and refugees.Giskin, who works as a community organizer in Philadelphia, said being Jewish informs her activism, citing the Jewish community’s deep ties to social justice movements. She joined Never Again Action to “see some of that fire back in the streets.
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