Jew. Zionist. Educator. Storyteller.
Antisemitism is the same all over, right and left, East and West.
Lately it occurs to me
What a long strange trip it's been
If Palestinians have a right to armed resistance against the Jews because of a so-called 75 year occupation, it would seem that the Jews have an even greater right to armed resistance against 1400 years of Islamic supremacy, race laws, massacres, and oppression. Real oppression.
Palestinian Arabs left because there was a war going on, a war that they started. People are displaced in every war, 3 million in Ukraine. And Ukraine didn’t start this war. If the Arabs had accepted partition, no one would have been killed or displaced.
Today, I introduced a resolution recognizing the Nakba (catastrophe), where 400 Palestinian towns and villages were destroyed, over 700,000 Palestinians uprooted from their homes, and made refugees.
The root cause of antisemitism:
Christianity and Islam stole our sacred texts and appropriated our ancient religion, and they’ve spent most of the last 2000 years trying to destroy the evidence.
There are 55 sovereign states where English is an official language. There are 25 sovereign states where Arabic is an official language. There is one sovereign state where Hebrew is an official language.
Who are the colonizers?
@nbjewbolshevik
There are 55 sovereign states where English is an official language. There are 25 sovereign states where Arabic is an official language. There is one sovereign state where Hebrew is an official language. Who are the colonizers?
European and Middle Eastern colonizers are upset that the people they abused the most over the centuries rebelled and took their land back. Don’t worry, we just want equality. Be thankful we don’t seek revenge.
Gaza needs to surrender immediately, return the hostages unharmed, and disarm. If they do that, borders can be opened, money will pour in for rebuilding, and Gaza can be the jewel of the Mediterranean.
If they don’t, Gaza should be a smoking crater. Enough.
The people who call us white are attempting to cast doubt on our ancient identity and heritage. No one goes up to Native Americans, African Americans, or any other minority and grills them on whether or not they are ‘authentic’. We are the Jews, and have been for millennia.
Zionism is the most progressive movement in history. A despised minority overcame centuries of horrific systemic racism, rose up, and defeated the British and Arab colonizers to reclaim their indigenous homeland.
Antizionism is a reactionary movement.
Saying Jesus was a Palestinian would be as absurd as saying Sitting Bull was a white guy from Minnesota. It’s ahistorical colonial nonsense, and it’s racist.
In Israel, the indigenous people have seized control of their history and their destiny, which obviously has all the imperialists and colonizers in the neighborhood upset. This is our history, this is our culture, and this is our land.
@zakraaaaa
Christian and Muslim colonialism are two sides of the same coin. The each had different ways of forcing the local population to convert to their respective religions, but conquering other people is conquering other people. Nasty business.
The false parallel between apartheid South Africa and Israel is obscene. Jews are one of the world’s tiniest minorities and are a historically oppressed people. Jews are indigenous to Israel. All citizens of Israel have equal rights. None of that held true for South Africa.
Zionism is the belief that Jews no longer need to bow and scrape to our Eastern or Western imperialist masters. You call Israel imperialist when it’s just the opposite.
@sasa_ghada
Al Aqsa is built on top of sacred Jewish land. Mt. Rushmore is built on top of sacred Native American land. Spanish churches are built on top of the ruins of Aztec temples. That’s what colonialism looks like.
The land doesn’t belong to us because our holy book says so. Why should anyone care what our holy books say? That’s between us and G-d. Our right to the land rests on our continuous presence, the rich archeological record, and thousands of years of oral and written history.
Indigenous people are the people who are there when the colonizers come to call. The Jews were there when the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, and Arabs arrived to kill and conquer. And we are still there.
Am Yisrael Chai.
@lilbuddymax
Farrakhan lies about Jewish involvement in the slave trade 150 years ago, has lied about and denied present day slavery in Africa, and has taken millions from known slavers.
50,000 civilians died during the US Civil War. Should the Union have left the slaves in chains so as not to kill any Southern civilians?
It's not ‘genocide’. It's war. Hamas chose the wrong army to start a war with.
Surrender. Like Appomattox.
In 1945, the Allies bombed Berlin because the nazis wouldn’t surrender. 125,000 civilians died before they surrendered. It took 2 weeks. This was not genocide. It was war. For 2 days in 1941, 33,000 unarmed Jewish civilians were stripped and shot at Babi Yar. That was genocide.
Want peace? Tell the Palestinians to accept an imperfect peace deal. Want war? Tell the Palestinians to resist peace and pay them to kill. Pressuring Jews to do your bidding worked for centuries in Europe and the Middle East, but that changed in 1948.
War is over if you want it.
@blakeflayton
We are not Khazars, we are not illuminati, we are not lizards from outer space. We are the Jewish People, and we have been for at least 3000 years. We have not been replaced. Am Yisrael Chai.
Don’t blame Israel for Arab intransigence, the conflict could be over in minutes, and the new State of Palestine could be raking in tourist dollars along with major funding by Israel and the rest of the world. Or they can keep killing Jews, but we don’t take kindly to that now.
Enough. Jews don't attack Muslim places of worship, lynch old Muslim ladies, kill Muslim kids at school, or mob buses with Muslim children. Hatred of Jews is preached in mosques around the world, and in the media. I have never heard the word Muslim in shul. CAIR, get stuffed.
Zionism is the belief that Jews no longer need to bow and scrape to our Eastern or Western imperialist masters. The uppity Jews in Israel have rebelled against the old world order of suppression, subjugation, and slaughter of Jews. Zionism is liberation.
@UN_News_Centre
@UNRWA
@UNLazzarini
UNRWA exists today because a political solution has been rejected by the Palestinians who instead chose endless war. Unfortunately, UNRWA chose to support endless war, which is why they need to disappear.
@shyna4me
@ShaykhSulaiman
They should have thought about that before they attacked an enemy that has an air force, an army, and a navy. And they do have an army.
@STWuk
Nothing says 'stop the war' like supporting the people who started a brutal war by raping, torturing, and butchering minority children. Soooo peaceful.
Omar called Israel evil and said Jews have hypnotic powers. This is not criticism, it’s racist rhetoric. It’s particularly bigoted as many if not most countries in the world have done things far, far worse than anything Israel has done, and continue to do so.
The University learned of hateful and antisemitic graffiti that was reported to be found in “The Village” neighbourhood yesterday. Many students live in this area close to the Keele Campus. York University denounces this hateful, antisemitic act and reported it... (1/2)
If the Arabs want peace they could have it instantly. If they hadn’t been indoctrinated for centuries by their ultra-right wing fundamentalist leaders, there could have been peace for 75 years now.
@jjz1600
Things I don't understand:
1. Why did Hamas start a war with a powerful country and then cry and whine when that country fought back?
2. Why did Hamas start a war but make no provision for keeping their people safe and fed?
3. Why doesn't Hamas surrender to end the war?
Helping other people is essential as humans, but the point of the phrase ‘Never Again’ means not allowing yet another genocide of the Jewish people. Not another pogrom, not another ghetto, not one more Jew killed by the bigots. For the past 2000 years, who has helped us?
@UNRWA
@UNICEF
@UNHumanRights
So, more than half of schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza have been used by Hamas as military bases in the last 10 months, a war crime.
@CAMERAorg
At a Jewish literature conference we can show 3000 years of Jewish writing. At a Palestinian literature conference they show their hatred and bigotry.
The Jews have been a people for at least 3000 years, we have never been replaced, and we know who we are. No amount of racist oppression or lies will change that.
Israel's warriors fight heavily armed combatants. Palestinian 'warriors' fight old ladies and attack civilians in a place of worship. Our enemies have always been bloodthirsty cowards.
For years the bigots have said there is s 'siege' of Gaza. Now there's a siege. Are you happy now, you enablers of war and bloodshed? Are you happy, you pundits that trade in misery and lies? This is on you and the evil fiends you support.
Am Yisrael Chai.
@NoLore
Ukraine didn't start the war. Ukrainians didn't start the war by raping, torturing, and butchering young Russian women. Ukraine didn't conquer and occupy Russia for 1400 hundred years. Ukraine didn't oppress its tiny Russian minority for 1400 years. How are the two similar?
@FranceskAlbs
@UN
I agree. Why is Egypt receiving billions from the US? They perpetrate apartheid against Copts and other Christians. With impunity. It's been going on for centuries. Speaking of apartheid, where are their Jews?
The Jews were subjected to Jim Crow style laws for their entire history under Muslim rule, punctuated by pogroms. The Mellah, blood libels, massacres in Egypt, Yemen, Morocco, and Iraq. And that’s just a fraction. The Yellow Badge was invented for us in Muslim lands.
@nytimesworld
When a major newspaper believes going to the shore, playing with the kids, and committing genocide is 'living a normal life', we have a problem.
@richimedhurst
No one has the right to colonize someone else's land. That's why we decolonized Israel in 1948. Isn't Sinwar's land a billion dollar mansion in Qatar?
@agelender
Our 3000 year continuous presence, the archeological record, our written and oral history, and the written and oral history of the rest of the world beg to differ.
There is more hate speech targeting Jews than any other minority. It’s been going on for millennia, reams of literature, books, pamphlets, and now entire websites devoted to Jew hate. We even appear in other religion’s holy books.
But you can’t say anything about The Jews...
@GarySpedding
The indigenous people of the land didn't call it Palestine. They called the coast, where Greek invaders lived, Philistia. The current people calling themselves Palestinian are Arabs. Arabs arrived as colonizers.
Which of the bloodthirsty tyrannies represented at the UN has the right to judge the Jewish people? They oppress us for centuries and then reproach us when at last we defend ourselves. Zionism is resistance.
@hzomlot
Maybe they should learn how to protect their children. One way would be not killing Jews. You may or may not have noticed that we fight back now.
The Muslim world subjugated its Jewish minority for centuries, culminating in multiple wars of extermination and the ethnic cleansing of almost a million Jews. Understanding that history isn’t anti-Palestinian, and it isn’t racism.
@QudsNen
The ‘Al Buraq wall’.
The Jewish claim to Jerusalem is a continuous presence, the archeological record, our written and oral history, and the written and oral history of the rest of the world.
The Muslim claim to Jerusalem is a flying horse named Buraq.
What if the nations surrounding Israel declared peace? Unconditional peace. Free trade, an open exchange of ideas, shared scientific research, a sharing of cultures. The deserts would bloom; advances would be made for all peoples in the area. Make love not war.
@BitchMedia
Jew Washing: Attacking Jews for doing mundane things in order to obscure the Muslim world’s centuries of mass murder and horrific human rights abuses.
@mamoun_linda
To avoid this, speak to your fathers and brothers and tell them not to rape, torture, or kill Jewish children. Let them know, and this is the important part, Jews fight back now.
Zionism is intrinsic to Judaism. The most important Jewish holidays are land based. Our festivals are pilgrimage festivals. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The pilgrimage festival is called a Chag. The Arabic word Haj is a cognate of Chag. It means pilgrimage to Mecca.
@ClaudiaWebbe
You have done nothing to stop the war. You wring your hands and attack the Jews. Hamas is the aggressor, and if they are losing the war they need to surrender, like any war that has ever been fought. Why should the Jews fight a war differently than other nations? Bigot.
Note to Gazans: Reports say supplies are dwindling. However, your corrupt leaders are safe and secure in their tunnels, with plenty of food and water. Why not pry open the tunnels, get some food, and free the hostages. Taking out the idiots that got you here would be a bonus.
@rogerwaters
Of course this is absurd. That’s the day he’s hanging gays with his good friends in Iran, the same Iran responsible for the deaths of at least a million Arabs since the eighties. Roger is a man with principles.
@AmnestyEU
@IntlCrimCourt
The victims are the Jewish children slaughtered on 10/7, and the Jews carried away by the 7th century marauders. The genocidal perpetrators? Hamas.
Free the hostages.
@roblee4
You're left wing but use the colonial name given to the land by the first Western imperialists. Do you insist on calling Native Americans by their colonial names, like Delaware Indians instead of Lenni Lenape?
On Yom Kippur we read the words of our prophet Isaiah. Isaiah prophesied while Hezekiah was our king. In 2009, archeologists unearthed the seal of Isaiah and the seal of Hezekiah, both near the Temple Mount.
This is our land, this is our history.
@johncusack
Hamas and their supporters are responsible for every Palestinian death. Just as the Confederacy and its supporters were responsible for every Southern death, and the nazis and their supporters for every German death. Make love not war.