A Jewish student (in America!) shouldn't care about a protest calling to liberate Palestine. Unless they support the occupation, in which case they deserve to feel intimidated, and hopefully ashamed too.
Imagine being a Jewish student on this campus and watching this terror-supporting parade make its way through the University.
How can Jewish students feel safe in this environment?
Israel appoints a third-rate 90s soap opera actress as special antisemitism envoy (in the same week that the US appoints Debora Lipstadt, a world-renowned scholar). Is there a better indication that for Israel combating AS is no more than a hasbara stunt?
It's so ironic that Netanyahu, who always thought of himself as a modern-day Churchill, emerged not as a Chamberlain - that would be too flattering - but as an Édouard Daladier.
I usually function well under pressure. I'd be a good soldier if I wasn't a bleeding-heart lefty. But I broke down when I 1st read about 8yo Ela, who her mum said loves 'animals &dancing'. That's exactly what I'd say about my daughter. I can't imagine what it must be like for her
I've been informed that Dafna and Ela are not on the list of the 13 hostages to be released tomorrow. This is incredibly difficult for me; I long for their return.
I'm relieved for the other families and hopeful for the release of all the hostages.
The videos showing Hamas and the hostages being chummy are mirror images of videos showing IDF soldiers helping old Palestinians cross the street.
The fact that they are not monsters does not detract from the monstrosity of the broader scheme of things.
Shout out to new MK
@gaby_lasky
, who was my lawyer briefly when I was jailed for refusing the draft in 2014. She was pleasant and professional, happily available at 10pm to read the military penal code, and generous: she ended up refusing to charge me.
We knew Gaza would blow up - but not like this.
We knew Netanyahu is a terrible PM - but not like that.
We knew military might does not guarantee security - but not like that.
What a tragedy; what a travesty
For 🇮🇱, Oct 7 marks many ends:
- To military hubris
- To the idea that 🇮🇱 can manage its conflict w/ the Pal's
- To the lie that regional peace can bypass the Pal's
- To the idea that a democ state can be gov'd by an indicted leader
- To the lie and travesty that was Netanyahu
It's simple: this election was decided exactly a year ago, when the centre-left preferred Netanyahu to the Joint List, thereby sending Arab citizens a clear message: don't bother voting, your votes don't count. So they didn't.
Many Israelis freak out over the J'lem Day flag march not just for the risk of violence. It's primarily because it's a glimpse into our imminent future: proud, unabashed, violent Apartheid, condoned by the authorities, in the heart of a major city (rather than a remote hilltop).
Matan Kahana has come under a lot of fire, and I'm not sure why.
1. He simply said out loud what 80% of Israeli Jews think quietly.
2. He apologized profusely and unabashedly.
3. His bottom line is that he can't ship the Arabs to Switzerland.
The Zionist left in Israel has a major blind spot about their privileges, and that's sometimes infuriating.
But at least they don't think of themselves as second-class citizens, as the settlers - another elite group - do. It's beyond infuriating; just absurd.
The same guy who was barred from running for the Knesset again BY AN ISRAELI JUDICIAL PANEL because he was too racist?
When I grow up I want to be Ben Shapiro and talk out of my ass at a 1.5x speed.
Remember that time the Obama administration barred a member of Israeli Knesset from entering the United States in 2012? Because you were vice president at the time.
I'm old enough to remember the dreadful feeling of an irreparable rupture between Jews and Arabs in October 2000 (Jeez I am old, it was 20 years ago).
Yet we are at a much better place today, in terms of inter-communal relations, than we were then. It looks dire but I'm hopeful
On 29 May 1996, Benjamin Netanyahu was first elected Prime Minister of Israel.
A quarter of a century (!) on, he might (!) Be finally (!) Stepping down.
I see many people saying that a leftist foreign policy is irrelevant, because prospects for a peace process with the Palestinians are nil. At the moment they might be, but it's the role of a leftist leadership to create the conditions for one. For example, by facilitating >
Looks like a fifth general election was called tonight.
What Yair Lapid needs to do, from the start of the campaign, is normalize the Arab vote. Say loud and clear that they are potential coalition partners and hopefully return to the results of last year's elex.
And in a broader perspective: The Palestinian Arabs fiercely opposed Zionism from a very early stage because they felt - and were ultimately proved right - that the endgame would be their dispossession.
Have been doing some reading on American Zionism in the 1930s, and what can I tell you, it's no coincidence that Tel Aviv's Weizmann and Brandeis streets don't intersect
We're back! Well, not all of us.
After a six-month hiatus, the
@TelAvivReview
has resumed its regular programming this week. This is by all means a cause for celebration, barring one thing >
I know we're all blasé by now but the fact that a party is banned from running in an election for presenting a (peaceful and democratic!) programme for regime change is mind boggling.
🔴 breaking: the Arab party “Balad” has been disqualified from the election to Knesset. The Knesset Election Council voted 9-5 with Ben Gvir (RZ) and Karhi (Likud) abstaining. Balad was disqualified for not recognizing the state of Israel. Balad is taking this to the high courts.
Sadly both sides yearn so much for support and solidarity that Palestinians will embrace a genocide-denier like Chomsky and Israelis hug a racist like Douglas Murray, without understanding that it’s not about them. The Isr-Pal conflict existed before the western identity wars >
I see many people comparing the Jerusalem Day flag march to the gay pride parade, so let me help you:
GPP: an oppressed minority calling for equal rights.
JDFM: an oppressive majority protesting to preempt equal rights.
The difference between right and left is that leftists are desperately looking for any bad reason not to vote for their party, while rightists overlook every good reason not to vote for theirs.
If Gantz doesn't pull out and fails to pass the electoral threshold, granting Bibi a clear victory, it will be the logical conclusion of his political career this far
It might be useful to consider Apartheid as a category, rather than a historical episode. Just as it's not serious to dismiss displays of fascism just because we're not in 1920s italy.
Israeli right wingers: the Arabs have always wanted to kill all of us, and forever will.
Also Israeli right wingers: Settlers and their Palestinian neighbours lived in perfect harmony until Rabin and Peres let Arafat and his henchmen back into the Territories.
Reading this, I thought to myself: One state or not, for most Israelis, Yavne is not a metaphor. It is a suburban town just south of Rehovot, where most people can't afford to buy real estate anymore.
To all
@TelAvivReview
listeners out there:
You may have noticed that we've been running some re-runs in recent weeks. That's because TAR is taking a break - for the next six months we will have only occasional original episodes.
.
@rachshabi
has been a consistent voice of nuance and moral clarity on the dual conversation progressives should have: on colonialism and antisemitism.
Being an anti vaxxer - being inherently suspicious of authority, insisting on making a moral decision, getting a lot of flak for it - feels like being a leftist in Israel, except that you're wrong and an idiot.
I will be 40 later this summer, I first voted in the 2001 election, and if this new government gets off the ground it will be the first time I've voted for a party that joined a coalition.
On a bus, going past Rabin Square.
Me: "oh no, what's this mass demo? So many anti vaxxers, so depressing."
Also me, getting closer: "phew it's just settlers."
Whenever I come across Mazzig I am reminded of the essay I will one day write, about the striking inverse correlation between the Israeli right's intellectual poverty and political power.
H*n M*zzig knows, because I told him, that I am a Sephardi/Mizrahi woman & the EIC of Jewish Currents. He continues to erase that fact because he is 100% bad faith. This is not about Mizrahi representation, it's about redirecting the American convo re: race, Zionism, & the left
“And we moved the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. That’s for the Evangelicals. You know, it’s amazing with that: the Evangelicals are more excited by that than Jewish people.”
A note from Palestine Post editor in chief to CEO about inability to stock the canteen during the siege of West Jerusalem in 1948, suggesting a tea and coffee pool nurtured by the staff instead. "Some such drill is now working with regard to News Room cognac."
#journalism
It has emerged that the amazingly brave and talented
@Elizrael
was kidnapped in Iraq in March. This interview she gave me and
@dahliasc
in 2019 shows a lot of her sharpness, humility and sheer guts. Praying for her safe return.
Call me a hopeless optimists, but these are the very last whimpers of a failed and corrupt leader, who will go down in history without a single real accomplishment to his name.
If Amir Peretz fails to persuade her to backtrack, he's tonight's biggest loser. He put the last remaining shreds of his political capital on the line to secure a merger with Levy, which an overwhelming majority of his followers found hard to swallow - for this very reason.
Orly Levy, leader of Gesher, which merged with Labor and Meretz in the last Israeli elections, has reportedly announced that she will not support a govt. that depends on the Arab-led Joint List.
This could potentially torpedo any prospect of a Gantz-led govt. coalition.
My guilty pleasure: reading about two obscure historical figures interacting and realizing that the streets named after them in Tel aviv are next to each other and thinking that maybe they were actually connected
If Lapid has any political instincts - and recently it has proved to be the case - he will shout from the rooftops that Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi are welcome in his coalition. It may well increase voter turnout among Arabs, currently at a record low.
@yaelnetzer
כמו האגדה האורבנית על האודישן לגלצ של אילנה דיין.
-אני רואה שאת גרה בדרך ההגנה. את יכולה להגיד לי באיזו הגנה מדובר?
- אתה יודע, הרחוב המקביל הוא דרך השלום. אתה יכול להגיד לי באיזה שלום מדובר?