Ancient Jewish sites are deliberately being relabeled, absorbed, and archived as "Palestinian heritage" — while the institutions overseeing the erasure accuse Israel of "occupation."
Who knows any of this? Are the major Jewish organizations, with their hefty budgets, sending out alarms? Are the community Jewish newspapers spreading this across their headlines? Do the synagogues and Jewish organizations write about it in their newsletters? Do our children learn about these places in their Hebrew and Sunday schools? We are in danger of being obliterated in a myriad of ways and, shamefully, we often don't even know it.
Every diaspora Jew needs to read "Betrayal: The Failure of American Jewish Leadership." It documents, without flinching, how our establishment organizations abandoned the mission they exist to serve—and are doubling down on their patronizing refusal to represent actual Jews.
It names names: the ADL, the American Jewish Committee, the JCRCs, the Union for Reform Judaism, and the rest. Unelected, donor-funded cronies who steer these institutions into un-Jewish politics because it pays—personally and socially—to hobnob with the political, media, academic, and entertainment set already in thrall to destructive ideologies. Jews pour hundreds of millions in and get almost nothing back.
More than 12,000 Jewish nonprofits worldwide. Billions of dollars. Endless panels and statements. And in the face of an open, accelerating explosion of antisemitism and anti-Israel hatred: no unified strategy, no coordinated response, no show of power. Just fragmentation, timidity, and self-preservation. We excuse everything from our guilt charities so long as they sound compassionate and offend no one, while they hoard resources and congratulate themselves as things get worse.
This is failure, and it demands a reckoning. Unity, accountability, coordinated action—none of it optional, and none of it possible on checks and slogans alone. It takes sustained pressure, political muscle, legal force, and unapologetic confrontation. Replace the failures with real leadership, real ideas, real passion.
And this site is no better: it informs but only as a whine, it lets antisemitic and anti-Zionist commentary sit here out of place, and it has offered not one real idea for changing the narrative. I'm disgusted that I come here and have to read the anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist, anti-Israel comments the publisher doesn't have the basic chutzpah to delete or block. I think I'm done coming here every day just to get pissed off with no healing to show for it.
Because it is dangerous to confront the Islamic world. They have no ethical boundaries around their means and methods. Neither do the western academics.
I say this because I see it now, not because you told me so, because you knew this all along. Sorry I have been so dim.
I think the Jewish public sources are really good and have done well. But now, it's a new day.
I'm not Jewish , but when I say we, I mean every Zionist whom ever they are, needs to participate in a collective take down of what's happening. Like it's wartime and we are in the fight.
Bless you. We are at war- no more letter writing, conferences, silent marches. We need action effective impactful unified action.
Natan Sharansky, lived in Ukraine/Russia, is one of the towering figures of modern Jewish and Zionist history. Before being released through mass international pressure, he served nine years in the Gulag, much of it in punishing isolation for advocating for peace and and human rights. He received the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal (1986) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2006)—the only living non-American to hold both—and won the Genesis Prize in 2020. He is the author of Fear No Evil, The Case for Democracy, Defending Identity, and Never Alone. He's frequently cited as an example of moral clarity and courage over institutional caution
When asked how to deal with terrorists and Muslims/Islam who want to violently eradicate jews and Israel from the earth, he said "you kill your enemy before he kills you."
The popular discourse has to change. Our pals on YouTube need to start talking about *fraudulent discourse not politely with words like *slander and libel. Strong bold confronting language is called for now.
Flip the script, confront the lies, expose the Islamic neo colonial agenda for what it is.
Quite a dangerous plan. But it's a matter of survival now. Big time.
But one thing imo. calling out slander or libel is not strong enough language. Speaking to an audience of Zionists is not going to change things. Nor should we engage with proxies, plants , activists. The best audience to reach are students, non engaged poorly informed general public.
We have to seriously expose and discredit the antizionist scholars on their methodology and errors. Big time. So university governors and university ethics boards are our audience, readers, book buyers.
We have to shame Hollywood actors by name who seek notoriety without knowing anything.
I think we have to pressure and shame social media sources and tv shows , to make them adopt ethical standards for civil discourse.
Zionist PR teams should be visiting government ministries….and leaders…to educate them.
The antizionist discourse is fraudulent, considered over time the Palestinian discourse and * aggression are *genocidal in intent and agenda. I think that can be demonstrated by documentary evidence, public statements, primary sources, the history of Islamic genocide up to the present day, Islamic occupation and destruction of Jewish antiquities and Holy sites.
The Palestinian agenda is a *fraudulent agenda it's not for statehood. It is an Islamic * neo-colonial , genocidal agenda for hegemony in Levant.
That's not decolonization it's an Islamic neo colonial ambition to replace Israel . The Hamas Charters spell it out. The 1948 Arab war on Israel made it clear, Al Hussaini they all had a genocidal agenda. Not recognized legally, but we can take *cultural genocide to mean the systematic destruction of a minority population their culture, toward total destruction, their indigenous status, their history, their sovereignty, their antiquities and religion and ultimately the Jewish presence in their own land. This is all demonstrable.
We have to flip the script, take the gloves off. Use stronger language that the masses can understand.
If the ICJ can agree that Gaza has 'plausible rights under the Geneva Convention on genocide' there is certainly enough evidence for a comparable finding concerning Israel defending itself against jihadi Islam.
That's why antizionists have to delegitimize the sovereignty of Israel, so that no UN rights can apply to that country. They are determined to destroy the Jewish nation as thoroughly as Hitler was.
Because the media, outside of Israel, where the influencers of others live, are busy coming up with fake definitions of Genocide, and slapping those on Israel.
Because there is no spare bandwidth in all that noise, to hear a soft footstep, when the thunder of the herd drowns it all out. The thunder that screams that there has to be "proportionality" in Israel's response to the attempts to erase it.
The only Jewish organizations that are seriously addressing this are also being sanctioned by the European Union (and will be sanctioned by the next Democrat administration in the US at this rate)
B’Tselem always reminds me of this quote from Aharon Megged:
"We have witnesed a phenomenon which probably has no parallel in history: An emotional and moral identification by the majority of Israel's inteligentsia, and its print and electronic media, with people committed to our annihilation."
If B’Tselem got its way and Israel was dissolved and overrun with jihadists, whose side would they be on? Would any of their leaders or members, not to mention their fellow travelers at Haaretz, have any regrets? Even when the jihadists inevitably turn on them and their families?
Israel's survival may depend upon expelling every UN-affiliated NGO, every org funded by European govts that are opposed to its existence, and every supposed "human rights" group that's spent decades reporting on one single country's violations while turning a blind eye to any deed committed elsewhere, no matter how vile.
Leftist self-hatred and moral narcissism is a luxury good for Western Leftists, who live safe and secure far from any possible violence, but in Israel it's a death wish, not just for yourself but for your entire nation. Did these people learn nothing from what happened to the peaceniks at Be'eri? All brutally massacred, no matter how much they devoted their lives to helping Palestinians.
If B’Tselem cares so deeply for the people who live in Gaza and the WB, they should move there.
This is not about what belongs to Palestinians it's about what belongs to Islam.
This is Islamic neo-colonial ambition, which is to control all the Holy Sites, Christian and Jewish.
I noticed this on the web ages ago. It's part of an invented Palestine history, and an invented Islamic history too.
I just read a 7 th century travel diary by Evliya Çelebi, an Ottoman Muslim. He talks about the Jewish Patriarchs as though they are relatives to Ali and Mohammed. He talks about the tomb of the Patriarchs as belonging to Islam. He talks about chasing away the Jews from their own heritage sites and securing them so they won't go back. This is the foundational thinking of today's Islam.
Because Islamic belief is that it replaced Christianity and Judaism.
So the UN is must be dominated by Islamic interests, while others don't know or don't care about cultural genocide of the Jewish presence, history, creation and veneration of these ancestral sites.
I think it should be attacked as the cultural genocide of Jewish history and antiquities. In every fraudent narrative they attempt to erase Jewish nationalism and identity. This occupation of Jewish antiquities is not an effort to participate and share but to appropriate, own and erase the Jewish presence. It is genocidal. Western antizionist scholars are part of it. I don't even think sharing is an option because genocide is in their hearts, not faith. They want religious domination. If antizionists don't know this, they are plain stupid.
I think it should be attacked as Islamic neocolonialism. It is not decolonization. It's an attempt by them to reclaim their conquered lands.
This is well documented throughout antizionist literature.
It is not up for debate any longer.
I really urge whoever is leading or coordinating the Israeli/Zionist counter attack in public discourse to flip the script. Take their fake claims and flip them.
A major confrontation and debunking campaign is needed targeting the fraudulent scholarship and essential genocidal war on Israel, because this is really serious imo. For so many reasons.
The only concrete ideas I have for this is to inundate social media, challenge false videos, demand standards for truth and civil discourse on Substack , X and other outlets. Organize the responsible academics like Morris, and articulate public speakers, not for debate for lectures that cannot be disrupted.
The UN has to be restructured altogether imo. But first it has to be confronted and exposed.
That seems to be the goal. To say Jews are really like the Roma. A permanently stateless people,who just short of show up. We know it isn't true,but seems the United Nations doesn't seem to care.
So true - the conquerors demand conversion and the architecture tells the story of erasure of any deviation from their ideology. Believe me though, some who lived in the area held the spirit of the Israelites in their heart just as the song goes - by the rivers of Babylon where we wept when we remembered Zion.
This is cultural genocide. Obliteration of yet another civilisation. Egyptian, Persian, Berbers etc, but Israel would be the real coup as foundations of Judeo-Christian civilisation. Your holy places matter to Christians - or should.
Israel will prevail, yet again. Don't worry. But cultural genocide. I think we must be brave enough to table this as part of a literal genocidal ambition by the Islamic Palestine project.
The Israelites have had so many moments of near extinction that they are a miracle of survival! It's something to be respected and appreciated in the human story, imo
According to the UN and Europe, Jews acting to preserve their own ancient sacred sites amounts to "stealing". As always without fail, they side with the muslims and their fake claims regardless of the fact that it is they who are actually the ones stealing and occupying sites that were Jewish centuries before islam existed.
Europe hasn't let up on its centuries long war against the Jews. May karma continue to be visited upon Europe.
Ah yes, the memory hole, but there is hope. "Here I stand with my IDF and my Merkava tanks. There you stand with your UN resolutions and your fat bank accounts. Let's see which of us prevails."
This has made me so angry, I'm beside myself. First of all, I don't care what international law says. Why can't Israel physically not allow some of these things to take place. Just don't allow it. And then it will get lots of attention. And then you make a big comparison to building a pipeline through Native American graveyards. Why is that wrong, and this is okay. Why?
Some mad jealousy of your rich past - mad coveting your ancient property. They wish they had your legitimisation. Easy to ignore jealousy but have to secure everything! 🤔
Who knows any of this? Are the major Jewish organizations, with their hefty budgets, sending out alarms? Are the community Jewish newspapers spreading this across their headlines? Do the synagogues and Jewish organizations write about it in their newsletters? Do our children learn about these places in their Hebrew and Sunday schools? We are in danger of being obliterated in a myriad of ways and, shamefully, we often don't even know it.
Every diaspora Jew needs to read "Betrayal: The Failure of American Jewish Leadership." It documents, without flinching, how our establishment organizations abandoned the mission they exist to serve—and are doubling down on their patronizing refusal to represent actual Jews.
It names names: the ADL, the American Jewish Committee, the JCRCs, the Union for Reform Judaism, and the rest. Unelected, donor-funded cronies who steer these institutions into un-Jewish politics because it pays—personally and socially—to hobnob with the political, media, academic, and entertainment set already in thrall to destructive ideologies. Jews pour hundreds of millions in and get almost nothing back.
More than 12,000 Jewish nonprofits worldwide. Billions of dollars. Endless panels and statements. And in the face of an open, accelerating explosion of antisemitism and anti-Israel hatred: no unified strategy, no coordinated response, no show of power. Just fragmentation, timidity, and self-preservation. We excuse everything from our guilt charities so long as they sound compassionate and offend no one, while they hoard resources and congratulate themselves as things get worse.
This is failure, and it demands a reckoning. Unity, accountability, coordinated action—none of it optional, and none of it possible on checks and slogans alone. It takes sustained pressure, political muscle, legal force, and unapologetic confrontation. Replace the failures with real leadership, real ideas, real passion.
And this site is no better: it informs but only as a whine, it lets antisemitic and anti-Zionist commentary sit here out of place, and it has offered not one real idea for changing the narrative. I'm disgusted that I come here and have to read the anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist, anti-Israel comments the publisher doesn't have the basic chutzpah to delete or block. I think I'm done coming here every day just to get pissed off with no healing to show for it.
Because it is dangerous to confront the Islamic world. They have no ethical boundaries around their means and methods. Neither do the western academics.
I say this because I see it now, not because you told me so, because you knew this all along. Sorry I have been so dim.
I think the Jewish public sources are really good and have done well. But now, it's a new day.
I'm not Jewish , but when I say we, I mean every Zionist whom ever they are, needs to participate in a collective take down of what's happening. Like it's wartime and we are in the fight.
Bless you. We are at war- no more letter writing, conferences, silent marches. We need action effective impactful unified action.
Natan Sharansky, lived in Ukraine/Russia, is one of the towering figures of modern Jewish and Zionist history. Before being released through mass international pressure, he served nine years in the Gulag, much of it in punishing isolation for advocating for peace and and human rights. He received the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal (1986) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2006)—the only living non-American to hold both—and won the Genesis Prize in 2020. He is the author of Fear No Evil, The Case for Democracy, Defending Identity, and Never Alone. He's frequently cited as an example of moral clarity and courage over institutional caution
When asked how to deal with terrorists and Muslims/Islam who want to violently eradicate jews and Israel from the earth, he said "you kill your enemy before he kills you."
Love Scharansky.
The popular discourse has to change. Our pals on YouTube need to start talking about *fraudulent discourse not politely with words like *slander and libel. Strong bold confronting language is called for now.
Flip the script, confront the lies, expose the Islamic neo colonial agenda for what it is.
Quite a dangerous plan. But it's a matter of survival now. Big time.
How, though.
Don't know.
But one thing imo. calling out slander or libel is not strong enough language. Speaking to an audience of Zionists is not going to change things. Nor should we engage with proxies, plants , activists. The best audience to reach are students, non engaged poorly informed general public.
We have to seriously expose and discredit the antizionist scholars on their methodology and errors. Big time. So university governors and university ethics boards are our audience, readers, book buyers.
We have to shame Hollywood actors by name who seek notoriety without knowing anything.
I think we have to pressure and shame social media sources and tv shows , to make them adopt ethical standards for civil discourse.
Zionist PR teams should be visiting government ministries….and leaders…to educate them.
The antizionist discourse is fraudulent, considered over time the Palestinian discourse and * aggression are *genocidal in intent and agenda. I think that can be demonstrated by documentary evidence, public statements, primary sources, the history of Islamic genocide up to the present day, Islamic occupation and destruction of Jewish antiquities and Holy sites.
The Palestinian agenda is a *fraudulent agenda it's not for statehood. It is an Islamic * neo-colonial , genocidal agenda for hegemony in Levant.
That's not decolonization it's an Islamic neo colonial ambition to replace Israel . The Hamas Charters spell it out. The 1948 Arab war on Israel made it clear, Al Hussaini they all had a genocidal agenda. Not recognized legally, but we can take *cultural genocide to mean the systematic destruction of a minority population their culture, toward total destruction, their indigenous status, their history, their sovereignty, their antiquities and religion and ultimately the Jewish presence in their own land. This is all demonstrable.
We have to flip the script, take the gloves off. Use stronger language that the masses can understand.
If the ICJ can agree that Gaza has 'plausible rights under the Geneva Convention on genocide' there is certainly enough evidence for a comparable finding concerning Israel defending itself against jihadi Islam.
That's why antizionists have to delegitimize the sovereignty of Israel, so that no UN rights can apply to that country. They are determined to destroy the Jewish nation as thoroughly as Hitler was.
Yes yes yes. And strong statements. It will increase tensions but in a necessary way. If only we had done that in the prelude to WW2.
Because the media, outside of Israel, where the influencers of others live, are busy coming up with fake definitions of Genocide, and slapping those on Israel.
Because there is no spare bandwidth in all that noise, to hear a soft footstep, when the thunder of the herd drowns it all out. The thunder that screams that there has to be "proportionality" in Israel's response to the attempts to erase it.
How very sad!
The only Jewish organizations that are seriously addressing this are also being sanctioned by the European Union (and will be sanctioned by the next Democrat administration in the US at this rate)
B’Tselem always reminds me of this quote from Aharon Megged:
"We have witnesed a phenomenon which probably has no parallel in history: An emotional and moral identification by the majority of Israel's inteligentsia, and its print and electronic media, with people committed to our annihilation."
If B’Tselem got its way and Israel was dissolved and overrun with jihadists, whose side would they be on? Would any of their leaders or members, not to mention their fellow travelers at Haaretz, have any regrets? Even when the jihadists inevitably turn on them and their families?
Israel's survival may depend upon expelling every UN-affiliated NGO, every org funded by European govts that are opposed to its existence, and every supposed "human rights" group that's spent decades reporting on one single country's violations while turning a blind eye to any deed committed elsewhere, no matter how vile.
Leftist self-hatred and moral narcissism is a luxury good for Western Leftists, who live safe and secure far from any possible violence, but in Israel it's a death wish, not just for yourself but for your entire nation. Did these people learn nothing from what happened to the peaceniks at Be'eri? All brutally massacred, no matter how much they devoted their lives to helping Palestinians.
If B’Tselem cares so deeply for the people who live in Gaza and the WB, they should move there.
This is not about what belongs to Palestinians it's about what belongs to Islam.
This is Islamic neo-colonial ambition, which is to control all the Holy Sites, Christian and Jewish.
I noticed this on the web ages ago. It's part of an invented Palestine history, and an invented Islamic history too.
I just read a 7 th century travel diary by Evliya Çelebi, an Ottoman Muslim. He talks about the Jewish Patriarchs as though they are relatives to Ali and Mohammed. He talks about the tomb of the Patriarchs as belonging to Islam. He talks about chasing away the Jews from their own heritage sites and securing them so they won't go back. This is the foundational thinking of today's Islam.
Because Islamic belief is that it replaced Christianity and Judaism.
So the UN is must be dominated by Islamic interests, while others don't know or don't care about cultural genocide of the Jewish presence, history, creation and veneration of these ancestral sites.
I think it should be attacked as the cultural genocide of Jewish history and antiquities. In every fraudent narrative they attempt to erase Jewish nationalism and identity. This occupation of Jewish antiquities is not an effort to participate and share but to appropriate, own and erase the Jewish presence. It is genocidal. Western antizionist scholars are part of it. I don't even think sharing is an option because genocide is in their hearts, not faith. They want religious domination. If antizionists don't know this, they are plain stupid.
I think it should be attacked as Islamic neocolonialism. It is not decolonization. It's an attempt by them to reclaim their conquered lands.
This is well documented throughout antizionist literature.
It is not up for debate any longer.
I really urge whoever is leading or coordinating the Israeli/Zionist counter attack in public discourse to flip the script. Take their fake claims and flip them.
A major confrontation and debunking campaign is needed targeting the fraudulent scholarship and essential genocidal war on Israel, because this is really serious imo. For so many reasons.
The only concrete ideas I have for this is to inundate social media, challenge false videos, demand standards for truth and civil discourse on Substack , X and other outlets. Organize the responsible academics like Morris, and articulate public speakers, not for debate for lectures that cannot be disrupted.
The UN has to be restructured altogether imo. But first it has to be confronted and exposed.
This makes me so angry I couldn't even finish reading.
This outrageous! The people pursuing this are obsessed to the point of mental illness.
This makes my blood boil.
They will be editing the Old Testament next. They are a sickness.
That seems to be the goal. To say Jews are really like the Roma. A permanently stateless people,who just short of show up. We know it isn't true,but seems the United Nations doesn't seem to care.
So true - the conquerors demand conversion and the architecture tells the story of erasure of any deviation from their ideology. Believe me though, some who lived in the area held the spirit of the Israelites in their heart just as the song goes - by the rivers of Babylon where we wept when we remembered Zion.
Gotta read him. Sounds like what I've been saying too I think.
F'm. Annex now.
This is cultural genocide. Obliteration of yet another civilisation. Egyptian, Persian, Berbers etc, but Israel would be the real coup as foundations of Judeo-Christian civilisation. Your holy places matter to Christians - or should.
Israel will prevail, yet again. Don't worry. But cultural genocide. I think we must be brave enough to table this as part of a literal genocidal ambition by the Islamic Palestine project.
The Israelites have had so many moments of near extinction that they are a miracle of survival! It's something to be respected and appreciated in the human story, imo
💯
According to the UN and Europe, Jews acting to preserve their own ancient sacred sites amounts to "stealing". As always without fail, they side with the muslims and their fake claims regardless of the fact that it is they who are actually the ones stealing and occupying sites that were Jewish centuries before islam existed.
Europe hasn't let up on its centuries long war against the Jews. May karma continue to be visited upon Europe.
Ah yes, the memory hole, but there is hope. "Here I stand with my IDF and my Merkava tanks. There you stand with your UN resolutions and your fat bank accounts. Let's see which of us prevails."
Before I enter my comment I would like to open with the following land acknowledgement....
...erm.....yes...um....allrighty then.
This has made me so angry, I'm beside myself. First of all, I don't care what international law says. Why can't Israel physically not allow some of these things to take place. Just don't allow it. And then it will get lots of attention. And then you make a big comparison to building a pipeline through Native American graveyards. Why is that wrong, and this is okay. Why?
How could a religion that united Arabia in 630AD, immediately invade and conquer the Levant in 634AD?
Perhaps an Empire is what Mohammed imagined in the first place.
Why did this new religion claim descent from the Jewish Patriarchs, recognize some aspects of Christianity, then claim to replace both?
Perhaps it was always a pan national , Imperial movement. Islam conquered Arabia by force then conquered Europe and North Africa by force.
Christianity expanded too and it forced conversions, and became the religion of Empires, but not four years after it was founded!
Some mad jealousy of your rich past - mad coveting your ancient property. They wish they had your legitimisation. Easy to ignore jealousy but have to secure everything! 🤔