“Activism” has turned into a witch hunt: less about progress, more about punishment. It’s intimidation dressed up as moral conviction, like demanding nonviolence with a Molotov cocktail in hand.
Something needs to be understood. The Palestinian death cult has become attached to the larger Marxist cause of destroying Western Civilization. The people who spit rage and fury and refuse to think or even see reality are obviously not liberals. They are anti-Western Marxist radicals. The Marxists have never believed in the liberal values such as the free exchange of ideas and reasoned discussion or free expression or anything we would recognize. In terms of Israel, they have fully internalized the destruction of the Jewish state as a mandatory precursor of the larger revolution that will bring down the Western World. They have no interest in truth or facts or discussion or logic or consistency or peace. And they swim in a sea of millions of useful idiots most of whom are being indoctrinated on college campuses by Marxist and Muslim professors. One lone blogger can no more stop them than the White Rose movement could bring down Nazi Germany.
It helps to understand that Western Marxism has the splendid camouflage of "social justice," the war of the "oppressed" against their "oppressors." This is foundation of feminism and its war against the "Patriarchy." (It is no accident that most of the pro-Hamas fanatics are females.) Blacks and gays adopted the same class conflict model. Apply American racial politics around the world, Israel is condemned as being white oppressors of "people of color" Palestinians, although the inconvenient fact is that Arabs were great slavers in Africa, and look down on blacks as slaves. As all of our universities, increasingly schools, and government institutions have adopted "social justice" as their main duty and goal, and media and entertainment have done the same, it is mandatory to condemn Israel and all Jews (who are "white oppressors," of course).
Considering how their "protests" began before Israel had a chance to respond to 10/7, these people aren not only keffiyeh cultists, but very well organized and funded. I doubt any propaganda campaign in history rivaled what's sweeping the world right now. All for 1/6 of 1% of the Middle East. All for a bunch of 9/11 celebrating, whining, demanding professional victims, who hate Jews but love terror. Have we seen worse moral inversion since the Third Reich? Now every year is 1984, worse than what George Orwell could've imagined.
There’s something going on in the brains of today’s activist communities; something that prior to about ten years ago would have been unrecognizable in the activism of the past. It is a level of pro-violence hysteria that appears totally unhinged and disconnected from reality. It makes me suspect an underlying cause of what increasingly looks like brain damage akin to autism spectrum disorder or some other neurological condition.
The fact is there have been issues in the past far more egregious and demanding of justice than what is happening today, and yet the vast majority of past protesters behaved like stoics compared to the toddler-tantrum activists we see today.
I know. I keep having to check myself occasionally, “is it me? Something I’m not getting? Surely they aren’t all this…dumb? Hateful? Violent?” But no, it is not me. I just haven’t found a satisfactory answer to explain it. The “oppressor/oppressed” narrative is part of it but really doesn’t explain why they are as unhinged as they are. I’ve never seen anything similar in my lifetime.
Yeah, I’ve thought a good deal about all the narratives I’m familiar with - oppressor/oppressed, white vs vaguely brown people, college indoctrination, etc.. Some or all of these may be part of the software, but I can’t shake the feeling that there’s also a hardware problem.
Brilliant writing. But where do I begin? "performance art curated by irony"; "emotional meltdowns are a sign of moral enlightenment"; "…a one-way ticket to social Siberia"; "still cloaks itself in the language of compassion, but the mask slipped long ago"; "digital dogma"; "Some atrocities, it seems, are just more fashionable than others"; "Treating an entire group as the root of all evil isn’t radical; it’s recycled bigotry"; "hatred dressed up as virtue".
And my personal favorite, having just finished Dara Horn's "Everyone Loves Dead Jews": "And nothing enrages the world more than Jews who refuse to stay silent — or worse, refuse to die politely."
And then, the points I've heard before but not expressed quite as well: "...lash out like caffeinated toddlers, convinced their emotional meltdowns are a sign of moral enlightenment"; "...champion causes led by people who would gladly strip them of the very rights they claim to defend"; "Murderous theatrics like this only harden Israel’s resolve, proving exactly why a Jewish state exists in the first place"; "...a gift to a group that hides behind civilians and has no intention of ending the war".
And some exquisite new points, as least new for me: "Are we really meant to believe Palestinians are suffering because the world isn’t outraged enough?" Along with: "It’s a bizarre underdog narrative, comically out of sync with reality, given that nearly every major institution is in their corner: academia, Hollywood, the United Nations, major NGOs, even corporations falling over themselves to show support".
A few classic points that I love (hate): "Blaming Jews for violence committed against them is one of the oldest antisemitic tricks in the book" and "It’s as if these activists are projecting their own guilty consciences onto the Jews, which, fittingly, is another classic feature of antisemitism." But the goose-stepping self-hating white guilt woke-ness is kind of a new brand, isn't it?
And finally, the paragraph that sums it all up for me: "In the hearts and minds of these activists, it was never about the Palestinians. They’re just a convenient vessel for projecting rabid hatred ...the latest excuse in a long tradition of justifying violence against [Jews].
These "activists" aren't teetering on the brink of collective delusion. They have fully fallen.
"On October 7th, the world saw the horror of ideological extremism at its rawest"
The Oct. 7th attack was a — so far— culmination of policy and practice by Judean, Samarian, and Gazan Arabs. It is driven not by "ideological extremism" but by religious piety, that is faithfulness to Islam's sacred instructions to its True Believers. Such instructions as “As Allah's Messenger said, The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. 'O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.' ~ Book 56, Hadith 139. See also Surah 2:191
The charters of the enemies ringing Israel cite the Koran and Hadiths as the foundation for their policies, motives, and strategies. And they have publicly declared they will repeat Oct. 7 until they achieve their goal: eliminate Israel and obliterate the Jews.
"nothing enrages the world more than Jews who refuse to stay silent — or worse, refuse to die politely."
No good Jew like a dead Jew.
"civil unrest: vandalism, intimidation, and mob-style harassment,"
These behaviours define not civil unrest but riots. They. have always been immediately put down by police whenever and wherever they occurred, but apparently not when Jews are the target. Redolent of similar police responses in the 30s.
"mob theatrics" 1960s term for it was Agitprop. Appropriate description of Red Green political action street tactics.
Lastly, given what the author says and the comments herein, "Pro-Palestine' is not a cause. It's a cult" is a misnomer. Dog whistling under the banner of "pro-Palestine" is the call to genocide per Article II of the Geneva Genocide Convention.
Consider the slogans popularly chanted by these advocates for genocide
“Free Palestine.”
A place that needs to be freed is a place that is occupied by a foreign power. Where is this place?
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free”
What river? The Jordan River to the East. What sea? The Mediterranean Sea to the West.
What exists there now? The State of Israel. It is the illegal occupying entity.
How are the captives to free this territory from Israel?
“Intifada Now” and "Globalize Intifada”
What is Intifada?
The First Intifada, (1987-1990) and the Second Intifada, (2000-05) were random terror attacks on Israeli men, women, children, elderly, that is, any Jew available for slaughter. These attacks were carried out on streets, in homes, in schools, in synagogues, kidnapping with summary execution, car ramings, suicide bombings and bombs planted in public locations like buses, cafes, airports, schools, or wherever Jews gathered in numbers. Intifada is the call for a third wave to once and for all eliminate all Jews from the River to the Sea.
Why this fight against the Jews?
“Global Jihad.”
Jihad means fighting for the cause of Allah. Book 56, Hadith 139. (See also Surah 2:191 ) states, “As Allah's Messenger said, The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. 'O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.' "
As Muslims believe it is Jews from Europe who overran their country creating the “Zionist Project,” to prevent any future Israel, a global rather than local jihad is imperative to once and for all solve the Jewish Problem of posing a threat to Islam.
How will this removal be achieved”?
“Resistance by any means”
Rape, burning alive, mutilation, murder, are not butchery. They are just and holy actions because they eliminates the Jews.
Thus pro-Palestine is not a social justice cause. As its goal is the extermination of Jews and the obliteration of that most visible emblem of all things Jewish — Israel — it is a Lobby for Genocide and should be called out for its criminal intent whenever and wherever its advocates rear their ugly heads.
You have to wonder what all the Gazans would do with the land of Israel if they actually had it? Move into the kibbutz’s and do what- farm, live cooperatively without a dictatorship breathing down their neck? Tel Aviv, Haifa- technology hubs? Be the new start up nation? Or just turn it to sh*t with UNWRA funds?
The chance of Gazan Arabs taking over Israel is, fortunately, nil. However, if Gazan Arabs were to unite with Judean and Samarian Arabs, the chances become much more probable, especially with the support of world governments who would "gently encourage" such such a final solution.
The approach now being favoured is incrementalism. Force Israel to accept the establishment of a proven terror state. Some argue how can those practicing resistance by any means be a terror state. They say ignore the charters of the ring of fire surrounding Israel. Ignore their public statements. Ignore their acts of random violence inflicted on men, women, children, the young as well as the elderly. They will be peaceful when they have their own state. They said the same thing back in the 30's "Oh, he will be peaceful when he becomes chancellor of the country."
Meanwhile Jews are shouting a Palestinian state on our borders dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the annihilation of all Jews is a terrible idea. The world responds, "You are just being paranoid." To which the Jews should answer, "Just because you are paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you."
Would any other country allow such a state to be established on its border? Are Jews expected to allow the establishment of such a state? Absolutely — in the lofty name of peace and co-existence, much like Jewish sleep away camp attendees were expected to peacefully co-exist with their well-intentioned counsellors, caregivers, and protectors.
What the world does not realize or refuses to acknowledge is the butchery that would be unleached if Israel were to fall. Each terror group with fight each other for control of the "New Palestine."Is there any question Hezbollah would voluntarily give up its military and political presence in Lebanon or would it use its new found power to take over the country entirely?
Whoever won this battle of terror organizations would soon turn their eyes on Jordan to enlarge their caliphate. After Jordan is swallowed up, the new, improved state would turn its eyes on Syria, claiming by right of the area being Syria-Palaestina (so named by Rome in 135 CE) that country historically was always a part of the "New Palestinian". Iraq and Egypt would now be facing a massive, militaristic country which followed the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, not something the Egyptian government would welcome, leaving its ally itself with Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and any other local country fearful for its existence, to mount a military offensive to destroy the threat.
Ironically, the one solution would be to establish a buffer zone between all the contending countries by creating a Jewish state from the river to the sea.
One of the finest articles on this topic I’ve ever read. I just wish it would have a larger audience. This point of view is so rare in the mainstream media.
Unfortunately, this is one of the issues that has devided my family. My brother is fanatically anti-Trump. Since Trump supports Israel, he hates Israel. His FB posts have become increasingly unhinged. He sounds just like the fanatics described in this Article. I "unfriended" him over a year ago, and we have stopped all communication. Yesterday, my husband had enough as well, and finally blocked him. I just wonder what these useful idiots will say when sanity returns, and their kids and grandkids ask what they did to stop the insanity. As the people pictured in this Article will learn, photos on social media will never go away. Their loss.
I've been thinking lately about Eylon Levy's comment regarding Dara Horn, to the effect that people don't love dead Jews; rather, people love Jews dead. Which was pretty spot-on and it explains why Jews who fight back freak people out; it's so much harder to kill them, and it's mostly cowards who want to do the killing. I've been thinking about how the hypocrisy of the hoards of virtue-signalling antisemites who really don't give a rat's ass about "Palestinians" really bothers me; they're predators with the kind of bottomless viciousness you see in the weak, but in their own minds they're brave and valiant, backed up by each other. In person they hide behind masks and online they hide behind fake names. I recognize the phenomenon is nothing new; I don't think it's because they're on the spectrum or mentally ill; just look at history. This sort of attack of the cowardly losers has plagued the Jewish people pretty much every 50 years for the past what, 3500 years? I was raised by cynics and it took me decades to achieve some faith in humanity. Since 10/7, I've lost it completely.
I've got to the point where when people say to me, "Free Palestine," I'm about ready to say, "Cut the shit and be honest. You want to say, 'Kill All the Jews.' Just say it. You don't give a rat's ass about the Palestinians because if you did you would be protesting Hamas, because their whole strategy is about maximizing Palestinian deaths. So please, have a little integrity, a little honesty, even if you won't have any intellectual curiosity, even if you won't do a second of research to find out if your opinion is right. Just say, "Kill all Jews" and quit dissembling. It's cowardly. Like how hiding your face behind a keffiyah is cowardly.
Lucy, your piece is right on point. It's makes feel like throwing up, I'm not sure if I'll sleep tonight, or tomorrow or the day after that. I am scared, I am livid. There are real-life Nazis everywhere; the time is right.
I have to take in the news cast from all sides & angles. Why? I feel I am obligated to keep current and try understand, even doing this makes me cry & gives me days long migraines. I. Am. Obligated.
So, I'll start here & come back tomorrow...
'Hey students-with-pourous-spongy-heads & possibly sh*t for brains...
TAKE YOUR KAFIAS OFF AND SHOW US YOU FACES!
SHOW your Parents,
SHOW your synagogue/congregation & community where you were bar/bat mitzvahed,
SHOW your friends at home & abroad,
And,
SHOW YOUR GRANDPARENTS who may be Shoah Survivors who you are & what you ignorantly stand for.
Let the reporters SEE your faces.
And, to close for tonight...
It is our job as Jews to continue to block those people who spew political atrocities & garbage on social media.
It is Our job as Jews to keep learning, to always remain aware of how things are changing so rapidly against Us.
It is Our job to know of those who would LOVE to see us driven into the sea, into gas chambers, into mass graves, to have 'Juden' on our chests & passports and be treated like filth.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge is always growing in Our understanding & knowing what right, always.
Knowledge is knowing of and parsing out what is true and what are insidious heinous untruths/garbage.
Knowledge is speaking with facts and what We know are the Truths.
Our knowledge spurs on Our strength to continuously growth as Jews all around the Diaspora.
At a certain point dialogue with such persons ceases to have value so block their comments . More importantly you have to be educated as to the strong connection of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel that traces back to to the dawn of the Jewish People .That knowledge is impregnable
The label "Activists," which the media love to use, is actually a euphemism for Agitators. Unfortunately, agitator does not sound so romantic, morally righteous, or high minded as the SJE (Social Justice Warrior) term activist.
Something needs to be understood. The Palestinian death cult has become attached to the larger Marxist cause of destroying Western Civilization. The people who spit rage and fury and refuse to think or even see reality are obviously not liberals. They are anti-Western Marxist radicals. The Marxists have never believed in the liberal values such as the free exchange of ideas and reasoned discussion or free expression or anything we would recognize. In terms of Israel, they have fully internalized the destruction of the Jewish state as a mandatory precursor of the larger revolution that will bring down the Western World. They have no interest in truth or facts or discussion or logic or consistency or peace. And they swim in a sea of millions of useful idiots most of whom are being indoctrinated on college campuses by Marxist and Muslim professors. One lone blogger can no more stop them than the White Rose movement could bring down Nazi Germany.
Truth. What’s happening in our world, the corruption of values, the ignorance and blindness, terrifies me.
It helps to understand that Western Marxism has the splendid camouflage of "social justice," the war of the "oppressed" against their "oppressors." This is foundation of feminism and its war against the "Patriarchy." (It is no accident that most of the pro-Hamas fanatics are females.) Blacks and gays adopted the same class conflict model. Apply American racial politics around the world, Israel is condemned as being white oppressors of "people of color" Palestinians, although the inconvenient fact is that Arabs were great slavers in Africa, and look down on blacks as slaves. As all of our universities, increasingly schools, and government institutions have adopted "social justice" as their main duty and goal, and media and entertainment have done the same, it is mandatory to condemn Israel and all Jews (who are "white oppressors," of course).
Considering how their "protests" began before Israel had a chance to respond to 10/7, these people aren not only keffiyeh cultists, but very well organized and funded. I doubt any propaganda campaign in history rivaled what's sweeping the world right now. All for 1/6 of 1% of the Middle East. All for a bunch of 9/11 celebrating, whining, demanding professional victims, who hate Jews but love terror. Have we seen worse moral inversion since the Third Reich? Now every year is 1984, worse than what George Orwell could've imagined.
There’s something going on in the brains of today’s activist communities; something that prior to about ten years ago would have been unrecognizable in the activism of the past. It is a level of pro-violence hysteria that appears totally unhinged and disconnected from reality. It makes me suspect an underlying cause of what increasingly looks like brain damage akin to autism spectrum disorder or some other neurological condition.
The fact is there have been issues in the past far more egregious and demanding of justice than what is happening today, and yet the vast majority of past protesters behaved like stoics compared to the toddler-tantrum activists we see today.
I know. I keep having to check myself occasionally, “is it me? Something I’m not getting? Surely they aren’t all this…dumb? Hateful? Violent?” But no, it is not me. I just haven’t found a satisfactory answer to explain it. The “oppressor/oppressed” narrative is part of it but really doesn’t explain why they are as unhinged as they are. I’ve never seen anything similar in my lifetime.
Yeah, I’ve thought a good deal about all the narratives I’m familiar with - oppressor/oppressed, white vs vaguely brown people, college indoctrination, etc.. Some or all of these may be part of the software, but I can’t shake the feeling that there’s also a hardware problem.
Brilliant writing. But where do I begin? "performance art curated by irony"; "emotional meltdowns are a sign of moral enlightenment"; "…a one-way ticket to social Siberia"; "still cloaks itself in the language of compassion, but the mask slipped long ago"; "digital dogma"; "Some atrocities, it seems, are just more fashionable than others"; "Treating an entire group as the root of all evil isn’t radical; it’s recycled bigotry"; "hatred dressed up as virtue".
And my personal favorite, having just finished Dara Horn's "Everyone Loves Dead Jews": "And nothing enrages the world more than Jews who refuse to stay silent — or worse, refuse to die politely."
And then, the points I've heard before but not expressed quite as well: "...lash out like caffeinated toddlers, convinced their emotional meltdowns are a sign of moral enlightenment"; "...champion causes led by people who would gladly strip them of the very rights they claim to defend"; "Murderous theatrics like this only harden Israel’s resolve, proving exactly why a Jewish state exists in the first place"; "...a gift to a group that hides behind civilians and has no intention of ending the war".
And some exquisite new points, as least new for me: "Are we really meant to believe Palestinians are suffering because the world isn’t outraged enough?" Along with: "It’s a bizarre underdog narrative, comically out of sync with reality, given that nearly every major institution is in their corner: academia, Hollywood, the United Nations, major NGOs, even corporations falling over themselves to show support".
A few classic points that I love (hate): "Blaming Jews for violence committed against them is one of the oldest antisemitic tricks in the book" and "It’s as if these activists are projecting their own guilty consciences onto the Jews, which, fittingly, is another classic feature of antisemitism." But the goose-stepping self-hating white guilt woke-ness is kind of a new brand, isn't it?
And finally, the paragraph that sums it all up for me: "In the hearts and minds of these activists, it was never about the Palestinians. They’re just a convenient vessel for projecting rabid hatred ...the latest excuse in a long tradition of justifying violence against [Jews].
These "activists" aren't teetering on the brink of collective delusion. They have fully fallen.
With apologies to Dara Horn, if there’s one thing people love more than dead Jews, it is defenseless ones.
They love defenseless Jews because those Jews become dead Jews.
"On October 7th, the world saw the horror of ideological extremism at its rawest"
The Oct. 7th attack was a — so far— culmination of policy and practice by Judean, Samarian, and Gazan Arabs. It is driven not by "ideological extremism" but by religious piety, that is faithfulness to Islam's sacred instructions to its True Believers. Such instructions as “As Allah's Messenger said, The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. 'O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.' ~ Book 56, Hadith 139. See also Surah 2:191
The charters of the enemies ringing Israel cite the Koran and Hadiths as the foundation for their policies, motives, and strategies. And they have publicly declared they will repeat Oct. 7 until they achieve their goal: eliminate Israel and obliterate the Jews.
"nothing enrages the world more than Jews who refuse to stay silent — or worse, refuse to die politely."
No good Jew like a dead Jew.
"civil unrest: vandalism, intimidation, and mob-style harassment,"
These behaviours define not civil unrest but riots. They. have always been immediately put down by police whenever and wherever they occurred, but apparently not when Jews are the target. Redolent of similar police responses in the 30s.
"mob theatrics" 1960s term for it was Agitprop. Appropriate description of Red Green political action street tactics.
Lastly, given what the author says and the comments herein, "Pro-Palestine' is not a cause. It's a cult" is a misnomer. Dog whistling under the banner of "pro-Palestine" is the call to genocide per Article II of the Geneva Genocide Convention.
Consider the slogans popularly chanted by these advocates for genocide
“Free Palestine.”
A place that needs to be freed is a place that is occupied by a foreign power. Where is this place?
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free”
What river? The Jordan River to the East. What sea? The Mediterranean Sea to the West.
What exists there now? The State of Israel. It is the illegal occupying entity.
How are the captives to free this territory from Israel?
“Intifada Now” and "Globalize Intifada”
What is Intifada?
The First Intifada, (1987-1990) and the Second Intifada, (2000-05) were random terror attacks on Israeli men, women, children, elderly, that is, any Jew available for slaughter. These attacks were carried out on streets, in homes, in schools, in synagogues, kidnapping with summary execution, car ramings, suicide bombings and bombs planted in public locations like buses, cafes, airports, schools, or wherever Jews gathered in numbers. Intifada is the call for a third wave to once and for all eliminate all Jews from the River to the Sea.
Why this fight against the Jews?
“Global Jihad.”
Jihad means fighting for the cause of Allah. Book 56, Hadith 139. (See also Surah 2:191 ) states, “As Allah's Messenger said, The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. 'O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.' "
As Muslims believe it is Jews from Europe who overran their country creating the “Zionist Project,” to prevent any future Israel, a global rather than local jihad is imperative to once and for all solve the Jewish Problem of posing a threat to Islam.
How will this removal be achieved”?
“Resistance by any means”
Rape, burning alive, mutilation, murder, are not butchery. They are just and holy actions because they eliminates the Jews.
Thus pro-Palestine is not a social justice cause. As its goal is the extermination of Jews and the obliteration of that most visible emblem of all things Jewish — Israel — it is a Lobby for Genocide and should be called out for its criminal intent whenever and wherever its advocates rear their ugly heads.
You have to wonder what all the Gazans would do with the land of Israel if they actually had it? Move into the kibbutz’s and do what- farm, live cooperatively without a dictatorship breathing down their neck? Tel Aviv, Haifa- technology hubs? Be the new start up nation? Or just turn it to sh*t with UNWRA funds?
The chance of Gazan Arabs taking over Israel is, fortunately, nil. However, if Gazan Arabs were to unite with Judean and Samarian Arabs, the chances become much more probable, especially with the support of world governments who would "gently encourage" such such a final solution.
The approach now being favoured is incrementalism. Force Israel to accept the establishment of a proven terror state. Some argue how can those practicing resistance by any means be a terror state. They say ignore the charters of the ring of fire surrounding Israel. Ignore their public statements. Ignore their acts of random violence inflicted on men, women, children, the young as well as the elderly. They will be peaceful when they have their own state. They said the same thing back in the 30's "Oh, he will be peaceful when he becomes chancellor of the country."
Meanwhile Jews are shouting a Palestinian state on our borders dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the annihilation of all Jews is a terrible idea. The world responds, "You are just being paranoid." To which the Jews should answer, "Just because you are paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you."
Would any other country allow such a state to be established on its border? Are Jews expected to allow the establishment of such a state? Absolutely — in the lofty name of peace and co-existence, much like Jewish sleep away camp attendees were expected to peacefully co-exist with their well-intentioned counsellors, caregivers, and protectors.
What the world does not realize or refuses to acknowledge is the butchery that would be unleached if Israel were to fall. Each terror group with fight each other for control of the "New Palestine."Is there any question Hezbollah would voluntarily give up its military and political presence in Lebanon or would it use its new found power to take over the country entirely?
Whoever won this battle of terror organizations would soon turn their eyes on Jordan to enlarge their caliphate. After Jordan is swallowed up, the new, improved state would turn its eyes on Syria, claiming by right of the area being Syria-Palaestina (so named by Rome in 135 CE) that country historically was always a part of the "New Palestinian". Iraq and Egypt would now be facing a massive, militaristic country which followed the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, not something the Egyptian government would welcome, leaving its ally itself with Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and any other local country fearful for its existence, to mount a military offensive to destroy the threat.
Ironically, the one solution would be to establish a buffer zone between all the contending countries by creating a Jewish state from the river to the sea.
Of course a wonderful essay which will unfortunately not be read by those who sorely need to. But thank you anyway.
One of the finest articles on this topic I’ve ever read. I just wish it would have a larger audience. This point of view is so rare in the mainstream media.
Excellent analysis. Bravo
Unfortunately, this is one of the issues that has devided my family. My brother is fanatically anti-Trump. Since Trump supports Israel, he hates Israel. His FB posts have become increasingly unhinged. He sounds just like the fanatics described in this Article. I "unfriended" him over a year ago, and we have stopped all communication. Yesterday, my husband had enough as well, and finally blocked him. I just wonder what these useful idiots will say when sanity returns, and their kids and grandkids ask what they did to stop the insanity. As the people pictured in this Article will learn, photos on social media will never go away. Their loss.
I’m very sorry for you. That must be extremely difficult.
For some reason the people with the loudest voices are heard. Screaming and violence will get you what you want. But will it? I hope not.
Well it gets you a lot of media coverage, that's for sure.
All media. MSM and social media. Sigh.
I've been thinking lately about Eylon Levy's comment regarding Dara Horn, to the effect that people don't love dead Jews; rather, people love Jews dead. Which was pretty spot-on and it explains why Jews who fight back freak people out; it's so much harder to kill them, and it's mostly cowards who want to do the killing. I've been thinking about how the hypocrisy of the hoards of virtue-signalling antisemites who really don't give a rat's ass about "Palestinians" really bothers me; they're predators with the kind of bottomless viciousness you see in the weak, but in their own minds they're brave and valiant, backed up by each other. In person they hide behind masks and online they hide behind fake names. I recognize the phenomenon is nothing new; I don't think it's because they're on the spectrum or mentally ill; just look at history. This sort of attack of the cowardly losers has plagued the Jewish people pretty much every 50 years for the past what, 3500 years? I was raised by cynics and it took me decades to achieve some faith in humanity. Since 10/7, I've lost it completely.
I've got to the point where when people say to me, "Free Palestine," I'm about ready to say, "Cut the shit and be honest. You want to say, 'Kill All the Jews.' Just say it. You don't give a rat's ass about the Palestinians because if you did you would be protesting Hamas, because their whole strategy is about maximizing Palestinian deaths. So please, have a little integrity, a little honesty, even if you won't have any intellectual curiosity, even if you won't do a second of research to find out if your opinion is right. Just say, "Kill all Jews" and quit dissembling. It's cowardly. Like how hiding your face behind a keffiyah is cowardly.
Lucy, your piece is right on point. It's makes feel like throwing up, I'm not sure if I'll sleep tonight, or tomorrow or the day after that. I am scared, I am livid. There are real-life Nazis everywhere; the time is right.
I have to take in the news cast from all sides & angles. Why? I feel I am obligated to keep current and try understand, even doing this makes me cry & gives me days long migraines. I. Am. Obligated.
So, I'll start here & come back tomorrow...
'Hey students-with-pourous-spongy-heads & possibly sh*t for brains...
TAKE YOUR KAFIAS OFF AND SHOW US YOU FACES!
SHOW your Parents,
SHOW your synagogue/congregation & community where you were bar/bat mitzvahed,
SHOW your friends at home & abroad,
And,
SHOW YOUR GRANDPARENTS who may be Shoah Survivors who you are & what you ignorantly stand for.
Let the reporters SEE your faces.
And, to close for tonight...
It is our job as Jews to continue to block those people who spew political atrocities & garbage on social media.
It is Our job as Jews to keep learning, to always remain aware of how things are changing so rapidly against Us.
It is Our job to know of those who would LOVE to see us driven into the sea, into gas chambers, into mass graves, to have 'Juden' on our chests & passports and be treated like filth.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge is always growing in Our understanding & knowing what right, always.
Knowledge is knowing of and parsing out what is true and what are insidious heinous untruths/garbage.
Knowledge is speaking with facts and what We know are the Truths.
Our knowledge spurs on Our strength to continuously growth as Jews all around the Diaspora.
OK, I'll be back. Lila tov, Am Israel Chai
'le chaim to Us,' We WILL stay strong.
Kol ha Kavod Lucy!
You’re not alone! Just know…now we have Israel.
At a certain point dialogue with such persons ceases to have value so block their comments . More importantly you have to be educated as to the strong connection of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel that traces back to to the dawn of the Jewish People .That knowledge is impregnable
Steve, your piece is concise & absolutely correct! Thanks for your strength & for reminding me that Our history is strong & impregnated! Erin
Palestine is a cult of fiction!
The label "Activists," which the media love to use, is actually a euphemism for Agitators. Unfortunately, agitator does not sound so romantic, morally righteous, or high minded as the SJE (Social Justice Warrior) term activist.