This is your "contribution" to a positive discussion? To preemptively bitch and moan about whether a social media platform will block an Israeli kid's posts? Really?
Grow some skin, man. Douglas Lewis's point was a perfectly reasonable comment, and you jumped on him for no good reason, or do you think we just have to go "hurrah, hurrah" to every pro-Jewish comment made?
You grow some fucking harder hide, candy ass. It was not a particularly smart point and was more of a “but they won’t let us, so why bother” kind of sentiment. I am more than willing to accede that I am beyond sensitive to this kind of thing given that polls show New York stupid fucking liberal Jews ARE GOING TO VOTE FOR ZOHRAN “LET’S ALL KILL JEWS” MAMDANI.
We are in yet another GLOBAL existential fight for our lives. I just spent the day at a memorial to the Jews stolen and murdered from Prague, and spent the last week at mass graves in Hungary.
I have zero fucking patience for anyone or anything that is not ready to fight for our right to live.
It's not that you're beyond sensitive, it's just that you're a histrionic, potty-mouthed, self-obsessed, thin-skinned member of the tribe. I am not going to make any headway with you on a very simple point -- that there was no need to insult someone for simply raising a question that you happened to interpret a particular way -- so have a nice life and try not to nick yourself too much along the way.
I can speak from within the Canadian Jewish community about the success of the shinshinim who spend a year with us representing Israel to Diaspora Jews, through the auspices of our local Federation. If that success can be transferred to the non-Jewish community, I’m all for it. We have housed and welcomed into our family two dynamic young women for 6 months each who had all the strengths you mention. We also had to lock them down for a few days after the Iranian war ramped up. Security IS a concern. You need a reliable partner organization on foreign soil to oversee the process, and also churches, schools, service organizations, scouting groups, etc., who will integrate them into their programming. Fingers crossed.
This is one of the best Future of Jewish articles I've seen. Israel is as hopeless at hasbara as it is brilliant in tech and innovation. You'd think they just don't care that the world's media are feeding a constant flood of Hamas propaganda to their viewers, listeners and readers. Something must be done as all wars ultimately are psychological wars. Israeli youth have the skills, interest and motivation to help turn the tide. They are also more appealing than old hacks. Although I must say the Israeli deputy foreign minister, whom I have seen on Australian TV a couple of times is brilliant. She should do a world tour.
I hosted a Shinshinit and saw firsthand the power of her ambassadorship in the community and especially with the youth. The most troubling thing was to hear her tell me how much the kids at camp were anti-Israel and didn't understand the need for Israel.
I love it!!! I'm picturing a bunch of Israeli youth folk dancing on campus with Israeli music blasting through speakers during pro-Palestinian rallies. Too much? Sorry. lol
I have long believed that bridges of understanding are built one by one. I have worked and lived in North Africa and the GCC. I like to think that those relationships mean something, not just for those of us personally involved, but in a larger way.
The essay is a good one, and it is always better to share more, but we have had decades already of students from Israel sitting next to students from Arab countries, in American universities and that did not stop the insane Jew Hatred erupting on Ivy League campuses.
On the plus side, and little noted in the media, south of the Mason-Dixon Line, virtually NONE of the bullshit we have seen at Harvard and Columbia has occurred.
People hate Jews. Mainly losers - and those losers are not likely to be around the Israeli bridge builders.
I don't like to be a hater, in the words of my teenagers, so I say any initiative is a good one.
The main thing which will change minds is the destruction of the Iranian regime and the removal of the cancer of Hamas et alia from the Fakestinian masses.
The evil bastards are keeping hostages dead and alive because they KNOW once they're returned, there will be no more photogenic (to a twisted Islamist's way of thinking) pictures of Israeli rockets hitting Gaza.
Will social media platforms, like TikTok allow Israeli "ambassadors to be viral countering the dominant narratives, or will the platforms censor them?
This is your "contribution" to a positive discussion? To preemptively bitch and moan about whether a social media platform will block an Israeli kid's posts? Really?
Is that your contribution to a positive discussion? Who's is the lesser contribution I 🤔
Yours is the least, since you've made it a three-way race in a purely gratuitous manner.
Grow some skin, man. Douglas Lewis's point was a perfectly reasonable comment, and you jumped on him for no good reason, or do you think we just have to go "hurrah, hurrah" to every pro-Jewish comment made?
You grow some fucking harder hide, candy ass. It was not a particularly smart point and was more of a “but they won’t let us, so why bother” kind of sentiment. I am more than willing to accede that I am beyond sensitive to this kind of thing given that polls show New York stupid fucking liberal Jews ARE GOING TO VOTE FOR ZOHRAN “LET’S ALL KILL JEWS” MAMDANI.
We are in yet another GLOBAL existential fight for our lives. I just spent the day at a memorial to the Jews stolen and murdered from Prague, and spent the last week at mass graves in Hungary.
I have zero fucking patience for anyone or anything that is not ready to fight for our right to live.
It's not that you're beyond sensitive, it's just that you're a histrionic, potty-mouthed, self-obsessed, thin-skinned member of the tribe. I am not going to make any headway with you on a very simple point -- that there was no need to insult someone for simply raising a question that you happened to interpret a particular way -- so have a nice life and try not to nick yourself too much along the way.
I meant: … young "ambassadors" …
I can speak from within the Canadian Jewish community about the success of the shinshinim who spend a year with us representing Israel to Diaspora Jews, through the auspices of our local Federation. If that success can be transferred to the non-Jewish community, I’m all for it. We have housed and welcomed into our family two dynamic young women for 6 months each who had all the strengths you mention. We also had to lock them down for a few days after the Iranian war ramped up. Security IS a concern. You need a reliable partner organization on foreign soil to oversee the process, and also churches, schools, service organizations, scouting groups, etc., who will integrate them into their programming. Fingers crossed.
This is one of the best Future of Jewish articles I've seen. Israel is as hopeless at hasbara as it is brilliant in tech and innovation. You'd think they just don't care that the world's media are feeding a constant flood of Hamas propaganda to their viewers, listeners and readers. Something must be done as all wars ultimately are psychological wars. Israeli youth have the skills, interest and motivation to help turn the tide. They are also more appealing than old hacks. Although I must say the Israeli deputy foreign minister, whom I have seen on Australian TV a couple of times is brilliant. She should do a world tour.
I hosted a Shinshinit and saw firsthand the power of her ambassadorship in the community and especially with the youth. The most troubling thing was to hear her tell me how much the kids at camp were anti-Israel and didn't understand the need for Israel.
Brilliant.
Great idea! Are they safe in other countries?
I love it!!! I'm picturing a bunch of Israeli youth folk dancing on campus with Israeli music blasting through speakers during pro-Palestinian rallies. Too much? Sorry. lol
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What a wonderful idea!! Why have "we" taken so long to come up with it?!?!
I have long believed that bridges of understanding are built one by one. I have worked and lived in North Africa and the GCC. I like to think that those relationships mean something, not just for those of us personally involved, but in a larger way.
The essay is a good one, and it is always better to share more, but we have had decades already of students from Israel sitting next to students from Arab countries, in American universities and that did not stop the insane Jew Hatred erupting on Ivy League campuses.
On the plus side, and little noted in the media, south of the Mason-Dixon Line, virtually NONE of the bullshit we have seen at Harvard and Columbia has occurred.
People hate Jews. Mainly losers - and those losers are not likely to be around the Israeli bridge builders.
I don't like to be a hater, in the words of my teenagers, so I say any initiative is a good one.
The main thing which will change minds is the destruction of the Iranian regime and the removal of the cancer of Hamas et alia from the Fakestinian masses.
The evil bastards are keeping hostages dead and alive because they KNOW once they're returned, there will be no more photogenic (to a twisted Islamist's way of thinking) pictures of Israeli rockets hitting Gaza.