People who attended the library event have every right to be angry and emotional. They are human beings, and groups like yours continue to deny their basic humanity; and then when we say "ouch, you're hurting me, please stop stabbing me," you twist the knife, find a friend to support you, and laugh. That is called gas-lighting; it is you doubling down when people are saying: please stop, you are hurting me. Please stop. Your words, like Donald Trump's on January 6th, put my and my family's lives in danger; and we are entitled to hold you responsible if you are going to continue stabbing us.
to start: The term Zionist and Jew are synonymous and mostly interchangeable terms in Arabic.
75% of Palestinians surveyed in the West Bank 2 weeks ago stated they agreed with the atrocities visited upon Israel on October 7th, and since you do not believe in Zionism and you seek to elevate Palestinian voices and "liberate Palestine," I will share the details of which events they find such joy, as you engage in your continued racist bigotry of low expectations which you dress up fancily as justification of expected and necessary "violence against settler colonialists." Many leaders in the Nazi party had PhD's too, by the way; eugenics was a tried and true scientific fact for almost 100 years prior to the first undesirables were murdered en masse in Nazi Germany. Your participation in academia does not relinquish you your antisemitism, no matter how you seek to linguistically absolve yourself of it, and no matter how you seek to stomp on my life and my real lived experience. (see, now I am angry again...)
Zionism is simply the belief that the Jewish people have a right to live in a self-determined state in Israel. If you do not agree with that, and you are indeed Jewish (which I know you are not, as I was on the Zoom call with you), your opinions represent roughly 10% of Jews by most polls. Most Jews believe that Israel has a right to and should exist, regardless of the complexities and nuances behind that belief.
And if you are a member of a group called "Jewish Voices for Peace," and you are not Jewish, I would consider you suspicious for good reasons. After all, why would I, an Ashkenazi white-passing Jew, claim to be a member of the Black community, and speak on behalf of Republicans who are Black (which is, a minority of black American voices), and why would I then demonize and mock the majority of liberal Black Americans; when I myself am Caucasian, and then why would I also seek continuous validation from other Black Token "friends" of mine who assure me that I am not racist? That would racist, would it not?
If that is not racist, please explain how your active co-opting of Jewish voices is not antisemitic. I do not benefit from the uncanny mental gymnastics that you have! But I digress. Onto October 7th and elevating those voices, shall we?
Zaka volunteers, eyewitness survivors, medical examiners, and archaeologists have all given testimony to what they saw on and in the weeks following October 7th. You are gonna love this! :)
Scene: it's the morning after Simchat Torah, the happiest holiday of the Jewish year! This 3000+ year-old Jewish holiday celebrates, amongst other things, the gift of the Torah from God to the Jewish people (I know, we are so full of ourselves, trying to live and have holidays and all!)
On Simchat Torah, we dance, sing, read the Torah, and then get so drunk that we cannot physically read it anymore. Children are given bags of candy and ride on their parents' shoulders. Similarly, the following day, children in parts of Palestine and other Middle Eastern countries received candy on October 7th to celebrate the slaughter of the Jews! See, we are all just human who want to be happy and alive, and not to kill Jews and die as martyrs. :-)
Since it is the morning after the happiest holiday of the Jewish year and a long break, the dirty Jewish adults will be hung-over, the dirty Jewish youngsters will be partying at a music festival similar to Burning Man, and the dirty Jewish children will be asleep in their beds, horns, money and all.
Hamas, the de facto government in Gaza since 2007, and a terrorist, totalitarian, sadistic regime which tortures and kills Gazans, has an assignment, funded most likely by Iran. Hundreds break through and hang-glide over the barrier which Israel had erected following 2007 to protect itself from their continued terrorism; and they massacre as many Jews as humanly possible. During their massacre, they record it on their phones and on their victims' phones, live-streaming as much of it as possible via Facebook and Telegram!
They also call upon their friends and neighbors in Gaza to brag about what they have done and to invite thousands more "innocent" Gazans over the border to enjoy the killing, burning of homes, and pillaging of entire communities. These communities, known as kibbutzim, are near the border with Gaza and inhabited by some of the most liberal Israelis; people whose life's work and actions (and not just Facebook posts!) have consistently been in pursuit of peace and goodwill with Gazans.
Many of the attacked kibbutzim have been there for over 100 years, as they represent an era during which persecuted Jews legally purchased barren, uninhabited desert land in what was then part of the Ottoman empire; and these Jews learned how to grow crops, build aquifers and desalination systems, rely upon one another, and prosper there in self-actualized, self-reliant, simple yet idyllic socialist communities. You see, the little baby Zionist Jews just wanted to live somewhere, anywhere, as they had tried to do all over the world without success for thousands of years.
Have you been to a kibbutz or celebrated Simchat Torah? Are you jealous? I admit, it is a cool feeling to sing songs in Hebrew which your Jewish ancestors from 3,000 years prior have sung, and in the same language, and it is remarkable to be part of a religion whose Torah references Israel hundreds of times, whose holidays revolve around celebrating seasons in Israel, because we *literally all came from Israel originally and have always maintained a presence there*, and whose prayers requires us to face in the direction of the Western Wall of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and which is a highly ethical, moral religion which places extraordinarily high value on human life and love.
What did the eyewitnesses that I previously mentioned report having seen? Surely they must all be making it up! Female children and women who were bleeding from their vaginas and anuses. Children and women whose pelvises were broken, their legs spread wide open. Every single woman and female child brought to one Zaka vounteer had her underwear and pants or skirt removed. Faces blasted by guns; rendered unrecognizable. Bodies burned twice -- once to kill, and the second time with chemical accelerant, to render them ash. Since cremation is against Halakhah (or, Jewish law, as I am sure you know), the Hamas were smart to burn the Jews twice in this fashion.
One female Zaka volunteer was part of a large group charged with preparing the women's bodies for proper Jewish burial, around which there are many Jewish "laws"; laws which could not be followed because of the state the women and female children's bodies were intentionally left in.
Women and men shot in their genitals. Women shot in their eyes. Men with their genitals cut off. A group of children, hands tied together, burned alive. A husband, wife, and child, burned alive inside of their car.
A baby with oven marks on it; its mother dead in the next room. The skulls of babies, separated from their bodies (let's not go crazy now and say they were beheaded, we only have video evidence of that happening to, like, 5 adults!)
A family of 4, found dead, the son with 3 fingers cut off, the mother with her breast cut off. What else to the daughter and father? I forget, who cares. A Jew's job is to die, and they did their jobs so well for you.
On video filmed by Hamas: a 6 or 7 year-old female Jewess hiding under a table, visited upon by Hamas who chat briefly before deciding to shoot her in the head. Two boys, their father just killed by a grenade which exploded in their safe room, crying for their mothers and asking "why am I alive? why am I alive?" as a Jihadist offers him water.
The video footage is remarkable, isn't it? How quickly the soul leaves the body and how quickly the body collapses, mid-run for its survival, shot in the back by an innocent, oppressed freedom fighter, whose actions surely are justifiable and natural, given his circumstances, having had all the money, food, water, electricity, and fuel hoarded unto him and his Muslim brotherhood while destroying the lives of innocent Gazan civilians for two decades. He is the victim, not the dead Jew! How dare the Israeli government imprison him or accidentally kill his son in an airstrike alongside him? Surely such an individual would never hide under a hospital and use innocent people as human shields. He just wants his house back!
One survivor recounted that multiple women were raped next to her. One woman was raped, bleeding from her backside, then passed to another man who began to rape her. She does not remember what the raped woman was wearing.
He cut off her breast and threw it on the ground. They then passed it around like a ball. While the Hamas terrorist or Gazan civilian was still erect and had his penis inside of her vagina, he shot her in the head.
Two young girls were found in their bedrooms, one on the bed, and one on the floor, with their underwear and bottoms removed, on their stomachs, with blood coming from their vaginas and semen on their backs, and bullets in the backs of their heads.
Was it October 7th or 8th when JVP put out its tweet explaining the context and the who, what, where, when, and why for all of the above?
I'm sorry I missed this event, but very glad they had it. I went to the children’s rally in Brooklyn. It was so wonderful to see after all the nasty confrontations I have endured for the past six weeks. It has been so hard to see the Zionists shout down their opposition.
Personally, I don’t think it’s useful to start with 1948 when the simple facts of the present genocide need to be shown. Of course, there has been an ongoing Nakba since 1948, but just the events of the last two years and the clear genocidal intent would take a couple hours to fully explain.
What really needs to be emphasized at this point is that it has become very clear that Israel has gone into Gaza to take it back so that it can drill for gas and oil. Two weeks into the genocide campaign, the contracts were already awarded. That is why Bibi continues to talk about “finishing the campaign"
Rishi Sunak’s father in law is a major investor in BPI. Rishi is a major supporter of the genocide. The US and other supporters will also be major profiteers of this drilling. That is why they want everyone out. This is a Zionist wet dream, getting rich from resources and the world leaders support for killing every Palestinian.
We can’t appeal to Zionists’ sense of morality, they don’t have one, but I wonder how they would feel if they knew they were just pawns in killing for oil game?
This has been running through my mind and I just never discuss it, but I just found this article. Did Israel just set up Hamas so they could have an excuse to take everything for themselves?
I read your essay and now you will read mine.
People who attended the library event have every right to be angry and emotional. They are human beings, and groups like yours continue to deny their basic humanity; and then when we say "ouch, you're hurting me, please stop stabbing me," you twist the knife, find a friend to support you, and laugh. That is called gas-lighting; it is you doubling down when people are saying: please stop, you are hurting me. Please stop. Your words, like Donald Trump's on January 6th, put my and my family's lives in danger; and we are entitled to hold you responsible if you are going to continue stabbing us.
to start: The term Zionist and Jew are synonymous and mostly interchangeable terms in Arabic.
75% of Palestinians surveyed in the West Bank 2 weeks ago stated they agreed with the atrocities visited upon Israel on October 7th, and since you do not believe in Zionism and you seek to elevate Palestinian voices and "liberate Palestine," I will share the details of which events they find such joy, as you engage in your continued racist bigotry of low expectations which you dress up fancily as justification of expected and necessary "violence against settler colonialists." Many leaders in the Nazi party had PhD's too, by the way; eugenics was a tried and true scientific fact for almost 100 years prior to the first undesirables were murdered en masse in Nazi Germany. Your participation in academia does not relinquish you your antisemitism, no matter how you seek to linguistically absolve yourself of it, and no matter how you seek to stomp on my life and my real lived experience. (see, now I am angry again...)
Zionism is simply the belief that the Jewish people have a right to live in a self-determined state in Israel. If you do not agree with that, and you are indeed Jewish (which I know you are not, as I was on the Zoom call with you), your opinions represent roughly 10% of Jews by most polls. Most Jews believe that Israel has a right to and should exist, regardless of the complexities and nuances behind that belief.
And if you are a member of a group called "Jewish Voices for Peace," and you are not Jewish, I would consider you suspicious for good reasons. After all, why would I, an Ashkenazi white-passing Jew, claim to be a member of the Black community, and speak on behalf of Republicans who are Black (which is, a minority of black American voices), and why would I then demonize and mock the majority of liberal Black Americans; when I myself am Caucasian, and then why would I also seek continuous validation from other Black Token "friends" of mine who assure me that I am not racist? That would racist, would it not?
If that is not racist, please explain how your active co-opting of Jewish voices is not antisemitic. I do not benefit from the uncanny mental gymnastics that you have! But I digress. Onto October 7th and elevating those voices, shall we?
Zaka volunteers, eyewitness survivors, medical examiners, and archaeologists have all given testimony to what they saw on and in the weeks following October 7th. You are gonna love this! :)
Scene: it's the morning after Simchat Torah, the happiest holiday of the Jewish year! This 3000+ year-old Jewish holiday celebrates, amongst other things, the gift of the Torah from God to the Jewish people (I know, we are so full of ourselves, trying to live and have holidays and all!)
On Simchat Torah, we dance, sing, read the Torah, and then get so drunk that we cannot physically read it anymore. Children are given bags of candy and ride on their parents' shoulders. Similarly, the following day, children in parts of Palestine and other Middle Eastern countries received candy on October 7th to celebrate the slaughter of the Jews! See, we are all just human who want to be happy and alive, and not to kill Jews and die as martyrs. :-)
Since it is the morning after the happiest holiday of the Jewish year and a long break, the dirty Jewish adults will be hung-over, the dirty Jewish youngsters will be partying at a music festival similar to Burning Man, and the dirty Jewish children will be asleep in their beds, horns, money and all.
Hamas, the de facto government in Gaza since 2007, and a terrorist, totalitarian, sadistic regime which tortures and kills Gazans, has an assignment, funded most likely by Iran. Hundreds break through and hang-glide over the barrier which Israel had erected following 2007 to protect itself from their continued terrorism; and they massacre as many Jews as humanly possible. During their massacre, they record it on their phones and on their victims' phones, live-streaming as much of it as possible via Facebook and Telegram!
They also call upon their friends and neighbors in Gaza to brag about what they have done and to invite thousands more "innocent" Gazans over the border to enjoy the killing, burning of homes, and pillaging of entire communities. These communities, known as kibbutzim, are near the border with Gaza and inhabited by some of the most liberal Israelis; people whose life's work and actions (and not just Facebook posts!) have consistently been in pursuit of peace and goodwill with Gazans.
Many of the attacked kibbutzim have been there for over 100 years, as they represent an era during which persecuted Jews legally purchased barren, uninhabited desert land in what was then part of the Ottoman empire; and these Jews learned how to grow crops, build aquifers and desalination systems, rely upon one another, and prosper there in self-actualized, self-reliant, simple yet idyllic socialist communities. You see, the little baby Zionist Jews just wanted to live somewhere, anywhere, as they had tried to do all over the world without success for thousands of years.
Have you been to a kibbutz or celebrated Simchat Torah? Are you jealous? I admit, it is a cool feeling to sing songs in Hebrew which your Jewish ancestors from 3,000 years prior have sung, and in the same language, and it is remarkable to be part of a religion whose Torah references Israel hundreds of times, whose holidays revolve around celebrating seasons in Israel, because we *literally all came from Israel originally and have always maintained a presence there*, and whose prayers requires us to face in the direction of the Western Wall of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and which is a highly ethical, moral religion which places extraordinarily high value on human life and love.
What did the eyewitnesses that I previously mentioned report having seen? Surely they must all be making it up! Female children and women who were bleeding from their vaginas and anuses. Children and women whose pelvises were broken, their legs spread wide open. Every single woman and female child brought to one Zaka vounteer had her underwear and pants or skirt removed. Faces blasted by guns; rendered unrecognizable. Bodies burned twice -- once to kill, and the second time with chemical accelerant, to render them ash. Since cremation is against Halakhah (or, Jewish law, as I am sure you know), the Hamas were smart to burn the Jews twice in this fashion.
One female Zaka volunteer was part of a large group charged with preparing the women's bodies for proper Jewish burial, around which there are many Jewish "laws"; laws which could not be followed because of the state the women and female children's bodies were intentionally left in.
Women and men shot in their genitals. Women shot in their eyes. Men with their genitals cut off. A group of children, hands tied together, burned alive. A husband, wife, and child, burned alive inside of their car.
A baby with oven marks on it; its mother dead in the next room. The skulls of babies, separated from their bodies (let's not go crazy now and say they were beheaded, we only have video evidence of that happening to, like, 5 adults!)
A family of 4, found dead, the son with 3 fingers cut off, the mother with her breast cut off. What else to the daughter and father? I forget, who cares. A Jew's job is to die, and they did their jobs so well for you.
On video filmed by Hamas: a 6 or 7 year-old female Jewess hiding under a table, visited upon by Hamas who chat briefly before deciding to shoot her in the head. Two boys, their father just killed by a grenade which exploded in their safe room, crying for their mothers and asking "why am I alive? why am I alive?" as a Jihadist offers him water.
The video footage is remarkable, isn't it? How quickly the soul leaves the body and how quickly the body collapses, mid-run for its survival, shot in the back by an innocent, oppressed freedom fighter, whose actions surely are justifiable and natural, given his circumstances, having had all the money, food, water, electricity, and fuel hoarded unto him and his Muslim brotherhood while destroying the lives of innocent Gazan civilians for two decades. He is the victim, not the dead Jew! How dare the Israeli government imprison him or accidentally kill his son in an airstrike alongside him? Surely such an individual would never hide under a hospital and use innocent people as human shields. He just wants his house back!
One survivor recounted that multiple women were raped next to her. One woman was raped, bleeding from her backside, then passed to another man who began to rape her. She does not remember what the raped woman was wearing.
He cut off her breast and threw it on the ground. They then passed it around like a ball. While the Hamas terrorist or Gazan civilian was still erect and had his penis inside of her vagina, he shot her in the head.
Two young girls were found in their bedrooms, one on the bed, and one on the floor, with their underwear and bottoms removed, on their stomachs, with blood coming from their vaginas and semen on their backs, and bullets in the backs of their heads.
Was it October 7th or 8th when JVP put out its tweet explaining the context and the who, what, where, when, and why for all of the above?
I'm sorry I missed this event, but very glad they had it. I went to the children’s rally in Brooklyn. It was so wonderful to see after all the nasty confrontations I have endured for the past six weeks. It has been so hard to see the Zionists shout down their opposition.
Personally, I don’t think it’s useful to start with 1948 when the simple facts of the present genocide need to be shown. Of course, there has been an ongoing Nakba since 1948, but just the events of the last two years and the clear genocidal intent would take a couple hours to fully explain.
What really needs to be emphasized at this point is that it has become very clear that Israel has gone into Gaza to take it back so that it can drill for gas and oil. Two weeks into the genocide campaign, the contracts were already awarded. That is why Bibi continues to talk about “finishing the campaign"
https://unctad.org/news/unrealized-potential-palestinian-oil-and-gas-reserves
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/10/israel-hands-out-gas-concessions-bp-eni-gaza-war-drags
Rishi Sunak’s father in law is a major investor in BPI. Rishi is a major supporter of the genocide. The US and other supporters will also be major profiteers of this drilling. That is why they want everyone out. This is a Zionist wet dream, getting rich from resources and the world leaders support for killing every Palestinian.
We can’t appeal to Zionists’ sense of morality, they don’t have one, but I wonder how they would feel if they knew they were just pawns in killing for oil game?
This has been running through my mind and I just never discuss it, but I just found this article. Did Israel just set up Hamas so they could have an excuse to take everything for themselves?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/25/gaza-gas-israel-partnership-hamas-egypt/
Have you looked up the word genocide in a dictionary? The Palestinian population has increased 5 fold since 1948. Why are Jews so bad at genocide?