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Israeli journalist, Israel Frey sends out a message after going into hiding.
Earlier this week Israel Frey made a public prayer for Palestinians. His home was subsequently attacked by an angry mob and Frey fled to safety.
Please listen.
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On Monday, a peace activist from Be’er Sheva, in southern Israel, learned that his friend, Khalil Abu Yahia, a resident of the war-torn Gaza Strip, had been killed in an Israeli air strike.
“He was one of the organisers of the Great March of Return,” said Yossef Mekyton, visibly shaken and emotional when referring to the March 2018 to December 2019 pro-Palestinian protests held along the Israel-Gaza border.
“And he was killed with his whole family.”
Mekyton, an Israeli citizen, has long supported the rights of the Palestinians.
But since the events of October 7 – when Hamas fighters breached the Gaza border with Israel, killing some 1,400 Israelis, prompting an unprecedented scale of bombardment on the Palestinian enclave – Mekyton says that many Israeli-based activists live in a climate of “fear”.
“I think one of the most effective ways to commit suicide these days in Israel is to go out on the street with a Palestinian flag,” the graphic designer told Al Jazeera.
While the treatment of activists felt threatening before October 7, it is “much more threatening” now, he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to destroy Hamas – which has controlled the impoverished Gaza Strip since 2007 – following the group’s incursion and kidnapping spree.
But Israel’s relentless shelling of Gaza has killed 8,500 Palestinian civilians, including more than 3,500 children.
Israeli troops claim that among the dead are several Hamas commanders. The Palestinian group has not yet announced any deaths of its fighters.
Fear and panic have gripped most sections of Israeli society following the Hamas attacks, making the activities of Israel’s activist population more conspicuous than ever.
“I am facing harassment by individuals on social media,” said Israeli Ofer Neiman, a pro-Palestinian resident of Jerusalem and supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, which is committed to putting political and economic pressure on Israel to end its occupation of the Palestinian West Bank and blockade of the Gaza Strip.
“Will it get worse? Yes, perhaps – it is concerning.”
On October 28, dozens of Israelis attended an anti-war protest in Tel Aviv – widely regarded as a liberal city.
“In terms of going out to demonstrate, I would feel reasonably safe in the Tel Aviv demonstration. But in other places, such as in Jerusalem where I live, I would not feel safe,” said Neiman.
Right-wing voices ‘dominate’ discourse
Last month, Israeli Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai warned there would be “zero tolerance” for domestic rallies supporting Gaza.
But there are signs of a crackdown that go beyond protests.
Israeli Jewish sociolinguist Uri Horesh recently announced that he had been suspended from his lecturing role at Israel’s Achva Academic College, citing his opposition to the attacks on Gaza as the reason for his dismissal.
Israel Frey, an ultra-Orthodox Israeli journalist, was forced into hiding after expressing support for the people of Gaza – which he said made him the target of far-right activists.
And it was reported that an Israeli citizen had been arrested on account of a publicly displayed sign.
“There is no sanctity in an occupied city,” read the sign, which had reportedly been hung from the window of his Jerusalem home for years.
#palestine#Israel#genocide#Israel Frey#Uri Horesh#Ofer Neiman#Khalil Abu Yahia#Yossef Mekyton#Neta Golan#Tali Shapiro
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Blood ~Closed RP~
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The Krimzon Guard was a stable place to work if you only wanted to make a living and have a home. There were battles sometimes, yes, and people died to the ever encroaching metal head threat, but you could keep yourself fed, and a family member as well if that's all you were looking to do. Unfortunately, that wasn't all he wanted.
Israel had morals, standards to what he was willing and unwilling to put up with. The horrid acts that the Baron was willing to do to further ensure his rule made him sick. A shaky deal with the enemy to make himself and his guard look like they were putting up a good fight was pathetic, and he'd had enough of it. Hannah was off working and making her own money, and most of his money went to keeping them in a home, so she'd be fine if he left. Today he was going to incite one large act of rebellion.
Making his way into the prisons late at night, he moved with a purpose. Walking into the cells with his armor still on, looking to each of the cells and the individuals inside.
"Back up." He said to the woman in the first cell. Typical procedure for the time being. He looked down at the control panel and opened it, standing before the woman now, staring her down for a moment before slowly reaching down to a pistol attached to his hip and pulling it free.
"I hear you're pretty handy with these." He said softly, spinning the pistol in his hand for a second before tossing it onto the ground in front of her. "Release the others, we're leaving." He instructed, turning and taking his rifle off his back now, going to the next cell over.
#ic#rp#starter#annytinthenomad#Blood RP#Israel Frey {Caged Crow}#Rebellion in Darkness {Jak and Daxter Verse}
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PEOPLE have a right to exist, not STATES
States are made up concepts that are never worth killing for. Fuck Zionism, fuck nationalism in all its forms including Nazism, Hindutva and american "white" nationalism.
#free palestine#free gaza#freies Palästina#palästina#gaza#palestine#watermelon#jerusalem#israel#israel palestine war#israel hamas war#zionism is fascism
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Thank you @piecesofacrow!! I love any and all work for Anny <3
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“We’re seeing a tsunami of police investigations,” Sfard said. “People who are targeted go through a very frightening experience and even if it ends with no indictments, it’s still horrendous.
“There is a wave of silencing of any type of, not only criticism, but also just compassion.”
Protests in sympathy with Gaza have been dispersed with force and Israel’s chief of police, Yaakov Shabtai, said last week: “Anyone who wants to identify with Gaza is welcome. I will put them on buses now that are headed there and I will help him get there.”
At the beginning of last week, Israel’s attorney general’s office also announced that it had instructed universities and colleges to forward cases to the police of students who had posted “words of praise for terrorism”.
In the wake of the attorney general’s instructions, there has been an apparent purge in Israeli universities. The legal rights group Adalah has reported that about 50 Palestinian students have been summoned to disciplinary committees about their social media posts and some have been suspended from their studies.
Intimidation of both Jewish and Arab Israelis with dissident views has also come from faceless individuals and groups, stirring up hate online.
In one notable incident, the ultra-orthodox leftwing journalist Israel Frey posted a video saying Kaddish (the Jewish prayer for the dead) for the victims of the Hamas slaughter and Palestinian civilians under fire in Gaza.
Soon afterwards, an anonymous user of the Telegram messaging platform published his address, which was shared widely by rightwing groups, and a mob turned up outside, lobbing fireworks at his windows, forcing him to flee with his family. He is now in hiding.
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Antisemitism Education
What does dogwhistle mean?
A dog whistle is the use of coded or suggestive language in political messaging to garner support from a particular group without provoking opposition. The concept is named after dog whistles, which are audible to dogs but not humans
Antisemitism or “anti-semitism”?
The word, “anti-semitism” was coined on the premise of pseudo-scientific race theory, alleging that “Semites” are a race of people, in order to give the hatred of Jews a scientific, rationalistic veneer.
Numerical dogwhistles
1-11
One representing the letter “A” and eleven representing the letter “K”, this is a numerical dog whistle made to refer to the Aryan Knights (AK) which is an Idaho based white supremacist group.
109
May be written as 109/110. This refers to the idea of Jews being exiled from 109 countries. The “110” is typically a direct threat, stating that there is about to be 110 countries.
12
One representing the letter A and two representing the letter B, these two letters represent the Aryan Brotherhood (AB).
100%
While there are many variations, 100% generally refers to “100% white”, feeding into the “pure white race” belief.
14 (14 words)
Fourteen words refers to a white supremacist slogan coined by the deceased leader of the group “The Order”, David Lane
1488
A numerical dog whistle that joins the “14 words” used by white supremacists in conjunction with “88” which refers to the eighth letter in the alphabet, “H”. “88” - “HH”, meaning Heil Hitler. 1483 may also appear which would instead mean Heil Christ.
6 million/6 gorillion
6 million refers to the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Antisemites will use terms like “gorillion” and other variations to avoid detection as well as to denote exaggeration in reference to their belief that Jews exaggerate the Holocaust.
6MWE
An acronym standing for “Six Million Wasn’t Enough”, signifying that 6 million Jews being murdered in the Holocaust wasn’t enough.
Dogwhistles and Conspiracy Theories
AKIA
Standing for “A Klansman I Am” this allows members to greet each other covertly.
Anglo-Saxon
A term what once was, and still is, used by white supremacists.
In the 1920s, the Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America lobbied in favor of segregation and argued for the exclusion of those with even a drop “of any blood other than Caucasian.”
Arbeit Macht Frei
Translating to, “Work will set you free” in English, this phrase was put on the gates of Aushwitz as well as other Nazi concentration camps.
Ashki-nazi
The intentional mispronunciation of Ashkenazi (Correct: Ash-ki-nah-zee. Incorrect: Ash-ki-Natzi) to accuse Ashkenazi Jews of being Nazis.
Ballpoint pen
A form of Holocaust denial in which Neo-Nazi’s claim that Anne Frank’s diary is a falsified or entirely fake document because “ballpoint pens didn’t exist at that time”.
Blood libel
Perpetuated accusation that Jews have murdered non-Jews
(such as Christian children) in order to use their blood in rituals
Cabal
Jews have long been accused of being part of a secret group that controls the economic and political world order. The term cabal originates from the word kabbalah, the Jewish mystical interpretation of the Hebrew Bible.
Cultural marxism
Sometimes also appearing as Cultural Bolshevism, this antisemitic theory believes Jews are trying to overthrow “Western culture” and destroy “White America”.
Delousing
A method of denying the Holocaust by suggesting that the gas chambers used to murder people were actually merely “delousing” facilities.
Dual Loyalty
Alleging that Jewish people are more loyal or only loyal to Israel rather than their own country.
Khazars or Khazar Theory
An antisemitic conspiracy theory that the Ashkenazi Jewish people today come from ancient Khazars and are “not real Jews”.
Khazar Milkers
A term used for sexual harassment towards Jewish women. Alternatively “milkies”.
Lizard people
The conspiracy theory that reptilian humanoids are trying to take over the government and can be government officials or large corporate figureheads.
Oven Dodger
A term for a Jew who antisemites believe should have been murdered in the Holocaust.
Pepe The Frog
While not originating in Nazism or White supremacy, the meme was co-opted by the alt-right along Reddit, 4-Chan, and 8chan.
Protocol of the Elders of Zion
An antisemitic text that spreads the paranoid theory that Jews are planning to dominate the globe.
Swimming Pool
An antisemitic conspiracy that the Holocaust didn’t happen because of the existence of a “swimming pool” at Aushwitz and was instead a “resort”. In actuality, it was an aquifer turned into a swimming pool for SS soldiers and their families.
The Jewish Question/Problem
The problem is the existence of Jews. The “question” being how to deal with the “problem” of Jews. This results in Nazism, for example, with the Final Solution. The full phrase is, “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question”.
WPWW
White Pride/Power World Wide.
You Will Not Replace Us
A phrase popularized in 2017 after the Charlottesville Nazi Riot. Sometimes appearing as Jews will not replace us or YWNRU, this antisemitic theory believes Jews are trying to “over-run the white race”.
ZOG
Meaning “Zionist Occupied Government”, white supremacists curated this phrase to signal a “Jewish controlled government”, most commonly the United States.
(((echo)))
an antisemitic symbol used to highlight the names of Jewish individuals or organizations owned by Jews
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The identity of the man leading Israeli protesters to block aid trucks coming into Gaza, has been revealed.
His name is Andy Green. He's an American and a suspect in the 1985 assassination of Palestinian-American activist, Alexander Odeh.
Subtitles aren't the best so I've transcribed the video:
[It turns out that the guy leading Israeli protesters to block humanitarian aid into Gaza is an American.
The story goes that Andy Green fled to Israel because he's suspected of murdering a major Palestinian-American figure named Alexander Odeh.
Alexander Odeh was a Palestinian activist and the West Coast regional director of the American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee. He was assassinsted in a bombing in 1985.
Israeli Frey, an Israeli journalist who previously went into hiding after his house was attacked by a radical Israeli mob over his solidarity with Palestinians just exposed Andys identity.
A couple of days ago, Frey posted that one of the groups organising protesters to block humanitarian aid trucks, published an appeal for donations.
And the address in the register of associations is the same office of Andy Green. In the late 80's, Green was widely reported as a suspect in Odeh's assassination.
Instead of being held accountable, he moved to Israel, changed his name to Baroh Ben Yosef, became a lawyer and is now publically involved in Israel's thriving extremist political movements.
In fact it seems as though he's spearheading racist anti Palestinians actions as we speak. Since late January, Israeli protesters have been stopping aid trucks at the Karem Abu Salem crossing between Israel and Egypt.
As Gaza faces a famine.
A growing number of Palestinians especially children have died of starvation. ABC National Executive Director Abed Ayoub says:.
"The involvement of a suspect in the assassination of Alex Odeh in current events, particularly in actions in actions that hinder humanitarian aid, is a stark reminder of the unresolved injustices faced by the Arab American community.
We call upon the Department of Justice to intensify its investigation into Green and end the impunity that let's him continue his commitment to anti Palestinian terror."
My question is, why hasn't Biden or any other President ever extradited this suspected terrorist. If we want to get aid into Gaza, then Andy Green should be bought to justice right now.
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Can you help me understand the conflict? It all feels like too much info too fast for me to organize my thoughts about it and I don’t know which sources carry which bias but I want to have an understanding of what is happening so I can make steps to support the right people. None of this was discussed when I was in school and it kind of been vague hand-waving to brush it away when I’ve tried to bring it up irl so I’m just lost where to start on getting the basic info about what’s happening.
I just feel really overwhelmed trying to understand it on my own without a reference point to start from, and hearing about all of the violence without having a clear path to help those effected is killing me. I want to understand so that I can use my voice and my resources the right way I just don’t know where to start.
of course, darling! these are some guides that i have found!
https://x.com/svhibe/status/1715054588502360565?s=46
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With hundreds of Palestine supporters packing the meeting room and the hallway outside, on January 23 the Minneapolis City Council’s Committee of the Whole voted 9-3 (with one abstention) to pass a Palestine ceasefire resolution.
The next step [is] January 25, for a full council for a final vote.
The committee voted in favor of eight amendments to the original resolution, all of which clarified or strengthened the resolution.
If the nine council members who voted for the resolution in committee all stand firm, they would have enough votes to override a potential veto from Mayor Jacob Frey, who has publicly criticized the resolution.
The Free Palestine Coalition has organized a campaign to press the city council to pass a strong resolution. They’ve generated thousands of emails and calls to councilmembers. The coalition also organized a large rally outside City Hall the Saturday before the vote.
Increasing numbers of cities around the country are passing resolutions calling on the Biden administration to advocate for a ceasefire to stop the carnage in Gaza. The language in the Minneapolis resolution goes further than many that have passed in other cities.
While many cities’ resolutions start with October 7, the Minneapolis resolution puts the current events in historical context, saying, “Whereas, the ongoing bombardment in the Gaza Strip comes in the context of the 75-year displacement of Palestinians and in 2016 the United Nations Security Council found the settlements in the occupied West Bank, which have gone on for 56 years, unlawful, and the 17-year blockade of Gaza; and…”
The Minneapolis resolution also uses the word “genocide” in two places, referencing statements by the United National Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner and the South African case before the International Court of Justice arguing that Israel is carrying out genocide in Gaza.
-- "Minneapolis Palestine resolution passes committee, heads for final vote" from Fight Back! News, 24 Jan 2024
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by Ira Stoll
The real problem with the Holocaust is that it is “shutting down debate about Israeli treatment of Palestinians.”
That’s the argument getting respectful attention in a New York Times book review. The review lavishes praise — “conscientious,” “especially timely,” “concise and accessible” — on a book that applies the label of “knee-jerk Zionism” to the views of Jewish Holocaust survivors in displaced persons camps.
It’s hard to tell how much of the complaining about Israel and Zionism is from the book, The Holocaust: An Unfinished History, by Dan Stone, and how much is added by the Times book reviewer, staff critic Jennifer Szalai.
The book itself, as the reference to “knee-jerk Zionism” indicates, has its problems. A sentence from the introduction asserts, “It would take several decades for the events which accompanied the creation of the state of Israel, especially the Nakba, or Palestinian catastrophe, when Palestinians were expelled from their towns and villages to make way for Jewish settlers, to make its mark on Israeli intellectuals and the public.” Never mind that many of those Arabs fled on their own, hoping that the invading Arab armies would destroy Israel, and never mind that some Jewish officials at the time urged the local Arabs to remain.
Yet as the review notes, the “book was first published in Britain in January of last year — too early to include events from the last few months.” That doesn’t stop the Times reviewer from using the Holocaust as a platform to opine about the Israel-Hamas war.
“Prominent historians have decried the misuse of ‘Holocaust memory’ by politicians to justify Israel’s bombing of Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks,” the Times reviewer writes, hyperlinking to a Nov. 2023 letter from a motley collection of far left academics accusing Israeli leaders of “promoting racist narratives” and blaming Israel for “seventy-five years of displacement, fifty-six years of occupation, and sixteen years of the Gaza blockade.”
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You Fight Me ~Closed RP~
@lyanna-aarvik
Five years. It had been five years since he'd seen the shores of his home. Marley. What an unwelcome sight on the horizon. Had they really made it back already? He was hardly conscious during the entire boat ride home, it felt like it at all passed by so quickly. It took a couple days, but he felt like he had simply blinked and here he was. A blur. That's what it was. That's what the past five years suddenly felt like. A blur. There was very little he truly could think of right now.
And it was the blood.
His mind was so focused on the lives lost, the look of terror in their eyes. Ravaged, torn corpses of those he once called his comrades. Flesh and limbs scattered like dust in the wind. Titans content to gorge themselves on the meal provided, mindless to the slaughter of their own kind.
All it took, was staying quiet. How in the hell had everything fallen apart so rapidly? His refusal to open his mouth led to this? He just felt guilty, like every life lost was on his hands. They rested uneasy in his conscious, their screams echoed in his skull, rattling his very soul with each voice.
It was a cacophony of madness.
He barely even noticed that he was stepping off of the boat, walking onto the docks. There was a crowd, waiting for them to return, and the chatter of everyone was tuned out. He doubted anyone was paying attention to him anyway, despite the red armband. He wasn't present for the parade five years ago. How were they supposed to know who he was? He just walked forward with a vacant expression, pushing through the crowd.
#ic#rp#starter#Lyanna-aarvik#You Fight Me RP#A Family Torn {Attack on Titan Verse}#Israel Frey {Caged Crow}
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They're now running propaganda trying to demonize Palestinian *Children*
#gaza#free gaza#palestine#free palestine#watermelon#palästina#freies palästina#israel#israel palestine war#zionism is terrorism
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"I've never been kissed like that before." {ehehehehehhehehehehe >:)}
"Neither have I... Perhaps it's a sign." She'd whisper softly, eyes half-lidded as her hazy, violet hues meeting his.
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Breaking the silence! Stop the bombs! Stop the war! Stop occupation! Against the walls!
Against all forms of opeession! Against Hate!
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Wenn wir free Palestine sagen, sagen wir: Freiheit und Gleichheit und gerechter Frieden für ALLE Menschen die dort leben. Frei von Unterdrückung, Frei von Gewalt, frei von korrupten Machthabern und durchgeknallten Milizen. Frei von Rassismus und Antisemitismus und frei von patriachalen Strukturen!Frei von Militärkontrollen, Mauern, Chackpoints und einem zwei-Klassen System. Frei von Besatzung und Krieg! Die Mehrheit der werktätigen Menschen auf allen Seiten will Friede, Gleichheit und ein Leben in Würde, das ist übrigens überall auf der Welt so. Und für die, die uns hier die Worte im Mund verdrehen wollen oder absichtlich Falsches in unser Plakat dichten wollen: Kommt mal klar - Free Palestine heißt nicht und niemals „ein Land ohne Jüdinnen und Juden“ sondern gleiche Rechte, gerechter Frieden, Demokratie und Teilhabe für Alle! Und wir stehen bedingungslos an der Seite der Menschen die sich für unteilbare Gerechtigkeit im nahen Osten einsetzen, scheissegal welche Religion sie haben. Das heißt Free Palestine! Eine Auseinandersetzung mit der europäischen Kolonialgesschichte ist dabei unabdingbar!
Wer allerdings meint Kritik an der Politik des Staates Israels oder seine Wut auf die Ungerechtigkeiten und den Krieg dadurch äußern zu müssen, jüdische Menschen zu bedrohen oder seinen Protest vor jüdische Einrichtungen zu tragen ist auch unser Feind! Basta! Und wer meint sich bedingungslos an die Seite einer faschistischen Regierung und ihrer Kriegsmaschine stellen zu müssen, hat seine Entscheidung getroffen. Wir stehen an der Seite der Unterdrückten und Ausgebeuteten. Von gerechtem Frieden in der derzeitigen Situation zu sprechen scheint völlig naiv, schon klar, aber das ist ja alles was wir machen - völlig naiv. Wir wollen auch libertäten Kommunismus statt Turbo-Kapitalismus im Endstadium hier zu Lande und zwar jetzt. So naiv sind wir .
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Fight Fascism Everywhere! Stop the war on Gaza! Stop the violence in the westbank! Kisses and Hugh’s to all our friends in Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Herbron we where lucky to meet on our last trip! We are with you and your people!
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never again...for anyone.
Mayor David Azoulai, head of Israel's Metula Council called for Israelis to "Turn Gaza into Auschwitz. Let it become a museum."
The Israeli official said, "The entire Gaza Strip should be emptied and leveled flat, just like in Auschwitz. Let it become a museum, showcasing the capabilities of the State of Israel and dissuading anyone from living in the Gaza Strip. This is what must be done to give them a visual representation."
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Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum strongly condemns an Israeli mayor’s call for depopulating the Gaza Strip and turning it into an open-air memorial...
“David Azoulai appears to wish to use the symbol of the largest cemetery in the world as some sort of a sick, hateful, pseudo-artistic, symbolic expression,” a spokesperson for the museum writes on X.
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On the same day I visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex this exchange took place between an Israeli official and the museum. Some photos from the somber and terrifying trip:
The notorious "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work sets you free") gate at the entrance of Auschwitz.
Auschwitz II-Birkenau gatehouse
Women's barrack at Auschwitz II-Birkenau
When I think about the Holocaust, I feel an intense sense of existential vertigo. How. How could humans allow this to be done to other humans? I just can't understand it. What the fuck were people thinking? But then I look at the genocidal rhetoric Israelis are using against the Palestinians and must face that we are witnessing the normalization of genocide right now.
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Only 1.8% of Israeli Jews think the IDF has used too much force in Gaza, in a campaign that has now (according to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor) killed over 25,000 Palestinians, including over 10,000 Palestinian children. "57.5% of Israeli Jews said that they believed the IDF was using too little firepower in Gaza." "48% of Jewish Israelis say that the suffering of Palestinian civilians should not be taken into consideration when planning the next phase of fighting in the Gaza Strip. 36% of Jewish Israelis said that it should 'not so much' be taken into consideration." Truly stunning, this near-consensus support in Israel on wiping out Gaza.
Recently, the #1 song in Israel calls for genocide of Palestinians, where Palestinians are referred to as rats and sons of Amalek. Do I need to remind you about what the Hebrew Bible says in the passage about Amalek?
Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’
It's not just the "fringe" of Israeli society that is calling for the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. "Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, evoked a biblical analogy referring to the Israelites’ enemy, largely interpreted as a genocidal call to wipe out Gaza."
“You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible - we do remember,” he said during an official video statement.
Then there are Gallant's early comments. “We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly,” Israel’s Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, said. “We will eliminate everything - they will regret it,” Gallant added.
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Moshe Feiglin, the founder of Israel's right-wing Zehut Party and former Likud representative in Israel’s parliament:“There is one and only (one) solution, which is to completely destroy Gaza before invading it. I mean destruction like what happened in Dresden and Hiroshima, without nuclear weapons,” he said.
In another statement, Feiglin said Israel’s end goal should not be to eliminate Hamas, but rather, “Gaza should be razed and Israel’s rule should be restored to the place. This is our country".
Amit Halevi, a Likud member in parliament, said, “There should be two goals for this victory: One, there is no more Muslim land in the land of Israel … After we make it the land of Israel, Gaza should be left as a monument, like Sodom”.
Nissim Vaturi, deputy speaker for Israel’s parliament: “Nakba? Expel them all.”
Ariel Kallner, a member of Israel’s parliament: “Nakba to the enemy now! .. Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48. A Nakba in Gaza and a Nakba for anyone who dares to join!”
When I ask myself how the Holocaust could have happened, I have to look no further than what I see happening in Palestine. While US politicians are wringing their hands about whether or not the IDF is "intentionally" targeting Palestinian civilians, Israeli officials including the PRIME MINISTER are straight up calling for genocide. And the US is sending them the arms to carry it out.
Yesterday I wept for the Jews killed at Auschwitz, the unfathomable catastrophe that was the Holocaust. I am not one to downplay the horrors of antisemitism. t's no secret that many of my favorite writers and thinkers are Jewish: Hélène Cixous, Susan Taubes, Paul Celan, Spinoza, Kafka, Clarice Lispector, Alejandra Pizarnik, Amelia Rosselli, Simone Weil, Karl Marx, Freud (yes, psychoanalysis is a Jewish tradition, as my analyst used to say). Antisemitism is a truly vile ideology that was incubated in the heart of Christian Europe.
Around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population was exterminated, along with disabled people, communists, gay people, Roma people, and Slavs under German occupation. I will never forget what it was like to see a gas chamber where thousands were murdered daily, to hear the names of those killed, along with the stories of the smell of burning corpses, the medical experiments, the daily humiliations, the sadism. Never again. We will always resist Nazis and fascists wherever they appear.
As antiauthoritarian leftists, we have always been categorically opposed to fascism in all its manifestations. What is truly maddening about contemporary discourse is the conflation of leftist support for Palestinian liberation with antisemitism, when it is actually the far-right that is pushing an antisemitic agenda. Again, I am thankful for the moral clarity of Jewish peace activists who urgently remind us that "never again" means NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE.
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