Every time I hear, I am not anti-Semitic, I am just anti-Zionist, I cringe. I unpack their belief system as best I can trying to find common ground. I tell them if you argue that as a first world country that holds itself out as a Democracy, Israel needs to live by those standards, I get the logic and the ethics. Unfortunately, it quickly goes they stole land. I then unpack history and how before WWI, it was under Ottoman control. I add it then after WWI, various countries popped up in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe - the latter only to be swallowed up and cut up again post-WWII and later. With that being said, ancient ties for the right to be there don't hold sway for me either. I found an arrowhead on my property. It is obvious that others were on my homestead. Arguments that it is a genocide don't square with an increase in population. The open-air prison argument seems odd when there are permanent buildings including hospitals. Some dopy guy on Judge Napolitano's channel was fawning over the Irish barrister bringing criminal charges in South Africa. No comment was made about the absurdity of a country falling into chaos spending money on such a trial. This goofy guy even made a statement that at least the British didn't kill the Irish. He missed the history memo of the people being reduced to cannibalism because there was no food though there was food for exports. I bring this up because in Ireland those who fought, like my grandfather, in the IRA were heralded as heroes. But as Constable told me decades ago, those days were gone. They wanted peace and stability. That peace and stability gave way to prosperity just like India. I have been told that India now has a university that is so difficult to get into that MIT is a backup. I don't know if it is true, but what a great story. Sort of like the UK's PM being the descendant of the formerly colonized and now heading the colonizer.
As a Jew , and a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, I decry antisemitism, but I do not support Israel and its genocide against the Palestinians. And I abhor the war criminal, Netanyahu and his ultra orthodox ultra nationalist followers.
Ever since the founding of Israel, Palestinians have been treated like non-humans, and now we see wanton deliberate killing of civilians on an unimaginable scale.
Although hypocritically saying that they try to spare civilians, the truth lies in Israel’s actions . Over 25,000 Palestinians killed , over 60,000 wounded ; deliberately cutting off aid, water, communication, bombing hospitals ,schools, refugee centers ,! Moreover, calling them “ subhumans”, telling them to “ voluntarily emigrate “! So that settlers can occupy Gaza and the West Bank and make Israel “pure” ! This is their Final Solution !
I can understand that some people falsely think if you’re Jewish, you also support Israel . I can understand where this antisemitism comes from!
If Israel continues on its genocidal path, and it looks like it will, since that is its goal, there will be more antisemitism, Hamas will have more recruits, and Israel will become a pariah!
‘As a Jew’ Where can I begin to refute your vile lies about Israel. Pretty much everything in your paragraph is untrue. Let’s just say this. Let’s play my favorite Nazi. Who is the Nazi in this story? Why it’s Amin Al Husseini the grand mufti of Jerusalem during world war 2. A true Nazi. And made a honorary Aryan by Goebbels. Why is this important? Because he provides the Nazi roots within anti Israel Palestinian Nationalism. This is the linkage.
Every time I hear, I am not anti-Semitic, I am just anti-Zionist, I cringe. I unpack their belief system as best I can trying to find common ground. I tell them if you argue that as a first world country that holds itself out as a Democracy, Israel needs to live by those standards, I get the logic and the ethics. Unfortunately, it quickly goes they stole land. I then unpack history and how before WWI, it was under Ottoman control. I add it then after WWI, various countries popped up in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe - the latter only to be swallowed up and cut up again post-WWII and later. With that being said, ancient ties for the right to be there don't hold sway for me either. I found an arrowhead on my property. It is obvious that others were on my homestead. Arguments that it is a genocide don't square with an increase in population. The open-air prison argument seems odd when there are permanent buildings including hospitals. Some dopy guy on Judge Napolitano's channel was fawning over the Irish barrister bringing criminal charges in South Africa. No comment was made about the absurdity of a country falling into chaos spending money on such a trial. This goofy guy even made a statement that at least the British didn't kill the Irish. He missed the history memo of the people being reduced to cannibalism because there was no food though there was food for exports. I bring this up because in Ireland those who fought, like my grandfather, in the IRA were heralded as heroes. But as Constable told me decades ago, those days were gone. They wanted peace and stability. That peace and stability gave way to prosperity just like India. I have been told that India now has a university that is so difficult to get into that MIT is a backup. I don't know if it is true, but what a great story. Sort of like the UK's PM being the descendant of the formerly colonized and now heading the colonizer.
As a Jew , and a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, I decry antisemitism, but I do not support Israel and its genocide against the Palestinians. And I abhor the war criminal, Netanyahu and his ultra orthodox ultra nationalist followers.
Ever since the founding of Israel, Palestinians have been treated like non-humans, and now we see wanton deliberate killing of civilians on an unimaginable scale.
Although hypocritically saying that they try to spare civilians, the truth lies in Israel’s actions . Over 25,000 Palestinians killed , over 60,000 wounded ; deliberately cutting off aid, water, communication, bombing hospitals ,schools, refugee centers ,! Moreover, calling them “ subhumans”, telling them to “ voluntarily emigrate “! So that settlers can occupy Gaza and the West Bank and make Israel “pure” ! This is their Final Solution !
I can understand that some people falsely think if you’re Jewish, you also support Israel . I can understand where this antisemitism comes from!
If Israel continues on its genocidal path, and it looks like it will, since that is its goal, there will be more antisemitism, Hamas will have more recruits, and Israel will become a pariah!
‘As a Jew’ Where can I begin to refute your vile lies about Israel. Pretty much everything in your paragraph is untrue. Let’s just say this. Let’s play my favorite Nazi. Who is the Nazi in this story? Why it’s Amin Al Husseini the grand mufti of Jerusalem during world war 2. A true Nazi. And made a honorary Aryan by Goebbels. Why is this important? Because he provides the Nazi roots within anti Israel Palestinian Nationalism. This is the linkage.