Its an incredible history and just really makes me question what are they teaching in the schools and universities and frankly, how are they getting away with distorting history to such an extent?
There is this marriage of convenience between the Islamists and the Progressives but dont the Marxists realize that once they get rid of Jews, the Islamists will go after them next?
On another note, I am just in awe over how well the enemy plays the PR war. They manage to take Arab headwear and turn it into a symbol of resistance. One must concede that it is a very cool look and I am certain that kids put it on just for the look of it.
Contributing by articles like this which ARE revisionist history. The state of Israel wasn’t an innocent Declaration of Independence. 500 villages destroyed, 750,000 displaced, tens of thousands killed. Refugees created for a century. Ongoing subjugation and military-dependent oppression.
Jason, you’re talking about the Nakba as though it happened in a vacuum while completely ignoring the broader historical reality and the choices that led to the war in the first place.
Why does almost nobody talk about the roughly 850,000 Jews expelled or forced to flee from Arab countries after Israel’s creation? Ancient Jewish communities across the Middle East were destroyed, assets confiscated, and Jews ethnically cleansed from countries they had lived in for centuries. Why is that refugee crisis almost completely erased from these conversations?
And let’s go further: the entire catastrophe of 1948 happened after the Arab side rejected the UN partition plan and chose war instead of coexistence. The Jewish leadership accepted a two-state solution. The surrounding Arab states and Arab leadership did not. They launched a war to destroy the newly created Jewish state.
War is tragic. Innocent Arabs suffered. Innocent Jews suffered. People were displaced on all sides. But presenting the story as though Jews simply woke up one day and decided to ethnically cleanse peaceful innocents is not balanced history either.
The Jewish side has repeatedly accepted partition, compromise, and coexistence proposals throughout history. The tragedy is that rejectionism, extremism, and refusal to accept a Jewish state have repeatedly sabotaged those opportunities.
That context matters whether people like it or not.
One of your points about Jewish people being expelled “after” creation of Israel that can’t be used then as an argument against something that happened in response to ethnic cleansing…
Of course that expulsion is horrendous. So was of course that from Europe pre and during holocaust - while Arabic / Palestinians welcomed Jewish refugees from Europe and ironically now are blocked out from the houses which welcomed refugees and are treated all as collectively-punishable :( this is not a “war”. This is genocide by everyone but Israel’s admission. It may not be to the scale of the hooocsust or the Armenian Genocide (20 million killed) or the amount of Russians killed in wars, but it is at the very least a mass murder, ethnic cleansing, collective punishment campaign that I do not support nor would I support any comparable action on Israeli people.
I feel like Palestinians and supporters thereof are expected to understand and empathize with Israel’s justification for its military action whilst being dismissed of any potential justification for even VOCALISING ours - our signs are deemed terrorist while Israel’s snipers and drones are “preemptive defense”. Roof knocking etc. please I wish you the best.
Why is a partition plan the only way for coexistence? That isn’t coexistence then….
I know many Jewish people millions have suffered. Nothing should justify ongoing abuse of others right. Never Again should be for everyone?
I was unaware until now how insidious it is and frankly, still trying to grasp the extent and more importantly the best way for a feeble old man to take up the fight.
Exactly. Like the people who support and believe this exact article!!!
I do recommend reading sources that don’t align with your views, as I just have, and having open dialog so we don’t all stay on echo chambers and drive ourselves further apart. We are all human beings trying to live our lives and make the world a better place. John Lennon “Imagine. “The state of Israel forming in 1948 written here as if it was a defensive salvation and independence - the actual reality is 750,000 Palestinians - half of the population - or should I just say people since you all think Palestinians don’t exist - were forced to flee as 500 villages were destroyed and 15,000 people were killed by this “salvation” army of Israeli “defense”. Israel is not this sweetheart. It does commit the subjugation this article claims the opposite. I know this from Israeli people. Anyone who is using this Palestinian movement as a veil for their antisemitism deserves to be called into question of course and that is so damaging to the majority who simply want equal right and freedom for the people there regardless of race / religion whether Palestinian or Arab or Jewish indigenous or refugee descendant. Israel however upholds itself by its superiority for one race over another. Am not talking about extremist groups like Hamas. I’m talking for the Palestinian people / Arabic whatever you want to call us / them to belittle and de-legitimize - we aren’t asking for domination. Israel equals domination. Pre-Israel, the British mandate of Palestine, my grandparents era, was many faiths and ethnicities - Christian, Jewish, Muslim, living amongst each other, from what they told me. That would be the Free Palestine I would want to see, rather than the “1000 Israelis / internationals killed while dancing next to a blockade, let’s kill 200,000 and displace two million and keep expanding - it’s justified as we need to ‘defeat Hamas’ while ‘doing all we can to avoid civilian casualties’ by bombing every hospital, shooting ambulances and burying them, shooting civilians as they line up for bread, shooting children in the head and heart. Israel doesn’t exist without walls, drones, boots on necks, billions from overseas donors and military aid, the iron dome, and birthright citizenship even if you are from the USA.
I post about indoctrination constantly. I find this most important and often overlooked factor. It starts with supposedly benign dressed in the objection to injustice.
A very difficult battle fighting indoctrination. The Left have taken over the schools and universities and their aim is not solely the destruction of Israel but it a revolution against Western culture and capitalism.
It’s not “left taking over schools”. Schools and universities are places for critical thinking to be developed and encouraged. For history to be taught. For debating skills to be learned. Think re Vietnam war protests. The left is often in synch because the left ideals are John Lennon Imagine as opposed to the right wing which is “fuck you all I’m getting to the top and especially stay down if you’re a woman or lgbtqia or Brown or Black.
Jason, of course ideology has heavily influenced schools and universities. Poll after poll has shown that professors in many humanities and social science departments lean overwhelmingly left politically, often by enormous margins. That absolutely affects campus culture, what ideas become socially acceptable, and which viewpoints are rewarded or stigmatized.
And let’s be honest: postmodernism, identity politics, oppressor-versus-oppressed frameworks, equity replacing equality, and ideological approaches to race, gender, and power did not emerge out of nowhere. Those ideas were heavily cultivated inside universities and then spread outward into media, activism, institutions, and public discourse.
Critical thinking is supposed to involve open debate and intellectual diversity. But many people increasingly feel universities have become places where certain viewpoints can barely be questioned without social or professional consequences. When highly educated people struggle to answer basic biological or definitional questions because ideology overrides clarity, people naturally begin losing confidence in those institutions.
And yes, I think a backlash is already happening because many ordinary people feel they are being lectured to by ideological systems that increasingly seem detached from common sense and everyday reality.
Very good post! Few people realize the goal of the conflict from the genesis in 1948 was/is not a Palestinian state but an islamic state or states. What an interesting lot of history your essay on the origin of the keffiyeh illuminated.
Too bad the professors and instructers at the universities and colleges have never read this information. If they have read it, they have certainly not taught these truths to their students.
College "teachers" are overwhelmingly among the most cowardly denizen of the country. Like most politicians their primary consideration is their social status and which way the wind is blowing.
History, baby, HISTORY! Thanks for sharing this information. I’ve a muted brown and tan Sudra (in houndstooth check) from my days as a long distance operator. Haven’t worn it to work in many years.
Arafat was obviously a “person of color.” Just like Abbas is now. Or MBS. Or Assad. Or both the Ayatollahs. Could not possibly by confused with a white Jew.
This was such an informative article that taught me much about the keffiyeh's origins. This should be part of a course to these confused and ignorant university students. I just have one comment when you say, "There will be a huge number protesting who only mean well," For me, that says a large number are unaware of what they're doing, and are only doing it with good intentions. Some may "mean well," but a huge number?
Thank you. I definitely will and thank you again for a wonderful and informative article. I got to hear Rudy speak at our Chabad a few years ago. Quite an amazing person. My Israeli friend knew his family when they were in Miami.
What’s wrong with Equity? What’s wrong with inclusivity? What is “common sense”? Common sense evolves (or at least, should) as we evolve as people emotionally and compassionately, empathetically. Definitions are definitions made by one person of another or can they be made of one person about themselves? Shouldn’t there be ramifications for “certain viewpoints” when those viewpoints are racist or sexist or discriminatory or diminishing? For Jewish people or for no. Jewish people? For anyone?
Excellent post! I will share it widely!
Its an incredible history and just really makes me question what are they teaching in the schools and universities and frankly, how are they getting away with distorting history to such an extent?
There is this marriage of convenience between the Islamists and the Progressives but dont the Marxists realize that once they get rid of Jews, the Islamists will go after them next?
On another note, I am just in awe over how well the enemy plays the PR war. They manage to take Arab headwear and turn it into a symbol of resistance. One must concede that it is a very cool look and I am certain that kids put it on just for the look of it.
papa j
Lack of knowledge leaves many vulnerable to disinformation and easily manipulated by revisionist history and twisted truths.
We are effectively contributing to this approach.
Contributing in what respect? Not fighting against it? Not getting involved in what is being taught?
Contributing by articles like this which ARE revisionist history. The state of Israel wasn’t an innocent Declaration of Independence. 500 villages destroyed, 750,000 displaced, tens of thousands killed. Refugees created for a century. Ongoing subjugation and military-dependent oppression.
Jason, you’re talking about the Nakba as though it happened in a vacuum while completely ignoring the broader historical reality and the choices that led to the war in the first place.
Why does almost nobody talk about the roughly 850,000 Jews expelled or forced to flee from Arab countries after Israel’s creation? Ancient Jewish communities across the Middle East were destroyed, assets confiscated, and Jews ethnically cleansed from countries they had lived in for centuries. Why is that refugee crisis almost completely erased from these conversations?
And let’s go further: the entire catastrophe of 1948 happened after the Arab side rejected the UN partition plan and chose war instead of coexistence. The Jewish leadership accepted a two-state solution. The surrounding Arab states and Arab leadership did not. They launched a war to destroy the newly created Jewish state.
War is tragic. Innocent Arabs suffered. Innocent Jews suffered. People were displaced on all sides. But presenting the story as though Jews simply woke up one day and decided to ethnically cleanse peaceful innocents is not balanced history either.
The Jewish side has repeatedly accepted partition, compromise, and coexistence proposals throughout history. The tragedy is that rejectionism, extremism, and refusal to accept a Jewish state have repeatedly sabotaged those opportunities.
That context matters whether people like it or not.
One of your points about Jewish people being expelled “after” creation of Israel that can’t be used then as an argument against something that happened in response to ethnic cleansing…
Of course that expulsion is horrendous. So was of course that from Europe pre and during holocaust - while Arabic / Palestinians welcomed Jewish refugees from Europe and ironically now are blocked out from the houses which welcomed refugees and are treated all as collectively-punishable :( this is not a “war”. This is genocide by everyone but Israel’s admission. It may not be to the scale of the hooocsust or the Armenian Genocide (20 million killed) or the amount of Russians killed in wars, but it is at the very least a mass murder, ethnic cleansing, collective punishment campaign that I do not support nor would I support any comparable action on Israeli people.
I feel like Palestinians and supporters thereof are expected to understand and empathize with Israel’s justification for its military action whilst being dismissed of any potential justification for even VOCALISING ours - our signs are deemed terrorist while Israel’s snipers and drones are “preemptive defense”. Roof knocking etc. please I wish you the best.
Why is a partition plan the only way for coexistence? That isn’t coexistence then….
I know many Jewish people millions have suffered. Nothing should justify ongoing abuse of others right. Never Again should be for everyone?
Yes, but it is easier said than done. I wonder if I undermined all my chances.
I was unaware until now how insidious it is and frankly, still trying to grasp the extent and more importantly the best way for a feeble old man to take up the fight.
Exactly. Like the people who support and believe this exact article!!!
I do recommend reading sources that don’t align with your views, as I just have, and having open dialog so we don’t all stay on echo chambers and drive ourselves further apart. We are all human beings trying to live our lives and make the world a better place. John Lennon “Imagine. “The state of Israel forming in 1948 written here as if it was a defensive salvation and independence - the actual reality is 750,000 Palestinians - half of the population - or should I just say people since you all think Palestinians don’t exist - were forced to flee as 500 villages were destroyed and 15,000 people were killed by this “salvation” army of Israeli “defense”. Israel is not this sweetheart. It does commit the subjugation this article claims the opposite. I know this from Israeli people. Anyone who is using this Palestinian movement as a veil for their antisemitism deserves to be called into question of course and that is so damaging to the majority who simply want equal right and freedom for the people there regardless of race / religion whether Palestinian or Arab or Jewish indigenous or refugee descendant. Israel however upholds itself by its superiority for one race over another. Am not talking about extremist groups like Hamas. I’m talking for the Palestinian people / Arabic whatever you want to call us / them to belittle and de-legitimize - we aren’t asking for domination. Israel equals domination. Pre-Israel, the British mandate of Palestine, my grandparents era, was many faiths and ethnicities - Christian, Jewish, Muslim, living amongst each other, from what they told me. That would be the Free Palestine I would want to see, rather than the “1000 Israelis / internationals killed while dancing next to a blockade, let’s kill 200,000 and displace two million and keep expanding - it’s justified as we need to ‘defeat Hamas’ while ‘doing all we can to avoid civilian casualties’ by bombing every hospital, shooting ambulances and burying them, shooting civilians as they line up for bread, shooting children in the head and heart. Israel doesn’t exist without walls, drones, boots on necks, billions from overseas donors and military aid, the iron dome, and birthright citizenship even if you are from the USA.
I post about indoctrination constantly. I find this most important and often overlooked factor. It starts with supposedly benign dressed in the objection to injustice.
A very difficult battle fighting indoctrination. The Left have taken over the schools and universities and their aim is not solely the destruction of Israel but it a revolution against Western culture and capitalism.
It’s not “left taking over schools”. Schools and universities are places for critical thinking to be developed and encouraged. For history to be taught. For debating skills to be learned. Think re Vietnam war protests. The left is often in synch because the left ideals are John Lennon Imagine as opposed to the right wing which is “fuck you all I’m getting to the top and especially stay down if you’re a woman or lgbtqia or Brown or Black.
Jason, of course ideology has heavily influenced schools and universities. Poll after poll has shown that professors in many humanities and social science departments lean overwhelmingly left politically, often by enormous margins. That absolutely affects campus culture, what ideas become socially acceptable, and which viewpoints are rewarded or stigmatized.
And let’s be honest: postmodernism, identity politics, oppressor-versus-oppressed frameworks, equity replacing equality, and ideological approaches to race, gender, and power did not emerge out of nowhere. Those ideas were heavily cultivated inside universities and then spread outward into media, activism, institutions, and public discourse.
Critical thinking is supposed to involve open debate and intellectual diversity. But many people increasingly feel universities have become places where certain viewpoints can barely be questioned without social or professional consequences. When highly educated people struggle to answer basic biological or definitional questions because ideology overrides clarity, people naturally begin losing confidence in those institutions.
And yes, I think a backlash is already happening because many ordinary people feel they are being lectured to by ideological systems that increasingly seem detached from common sense and everyday reality.
Very good post! Few people realize the goal of the conflict from the genesis in 1948 was/is not a Palestinian state but an islamic state or states. What an interesting lot of history your essay on the origin of the keffiyeh illuminated.
Thank you.
Too bad the professors and instructers at the universities and colleges have never read this information. If they have read it, they have certainly not taught these truths to their students.
College "teachers" are overwhelmingly among the most cowardly denizen of the country. Like most politicians their primary consideration is their social status and which way the wind is blowing.
it is my post that have been shared and i am “college teacher.”
why do you generalize like this and place teachers in quotation marks?
Tried to reply to your question but Substack won’t permit it.
Maybe I’ll try again tomorrow. Headed for bed now.
Not sure why.
Willfully ignorant or intentionally manipulative "for the cause?"
It is a loaded question 😊
Qatari & other funding of university programs, with ,"strings?"
Likewise, news & media companies???
History, baby, HISTORY! Thanks for sharing this information. I’ve a muted brown and tan Sudra (in houndstooth check) from my days as a long distance operator. Haven’t worn it to work in many years.
The only thing I give a shit about is how many bullet holes are in the head of the vermin wearing them
Arafat was obviously a “person of color.” Just like Abbas is now. Or MBS. Or Assad. Or both the Ayatollahs. Could not possibly by confused with a white Jew.
This was such an informative article that taught me much about the keffiyeh's origins. This should be part of a course to these confused and ignorant university students. I just have one comment when you say, "There will be a huge number protesting who only mean well," For me, that says a large number are unaware of what they're doing, and are only doing it with good intentions. Some may "mean well," but a huge number?
These numbers will continue. Look at my other posts that deal with indoctrination.
Thank you. I definitely will and thank you again for a wonderful and informative article. I got to hear Rudy speak at our Chabad a few years ago. Quite an amazing person. My Israeli friend knew his family when they were in Miami.
Excellent Ilana. I would like to share this on Guerre and Shalom too.
Truth
What’s wrong with Equity? What’s wrong with inclusivity? What is “common sense”? Common sense evolves (or at least, should) as we evolve as people emotionally and compassionately, empathetically. Definitions are definitions made by one person of another or can they be made of one person about themselves? Shouldn’t there be ramifications for “certain viewpoints” when those viewpoints are racist or sexist or discriminatory or diminishing? For Jewish people or for no. Jewish people? For anyone?
I do not know how to remove this posting that it does not pop-up as my first to be seen one. It is frustrating that I have no control over it.