50% of the neocolony’s defence budget goes into Benjamin Netanyahu’s numerous Lemmygrad alts. Little‐known fact.
As beautifully straightforward as it would be to summarize Palestine’s occupation as an example of the cycle of violence, I suspect that that is an oversimplification. From what I know, many of the neocolonists actually considered the Shoah survivors to be weaklings. For byspel:
Israeli national guilt for having denigrated Holocaust survivors—guilt for implying that the survivors were weak for purportedly allowing the destruction of European Jewry—is the undercurrent of these films.
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And they’re still treating them like crap; many of them live in poverty today. Unfortunately, some Shoah survivors did contribute to Palestine’s occupation, but this is overstated.
What the Nazis did to the Jews, the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians.
While I wouldn’t go that far, I don’t really blame people for drawing the comparisons either. What the neocolony is doing is essentially the policy of empire that we have seen time and again: emptying regions of natives, and reducing the remnants to the status of second‐class citizens. We’ve seen it with the British Empire, Imperial America, the Ottoman Empire, the Empire of Japan, the Kingdom of Italy, and yes, the German Reich. The neocolony may be less ambitious in its long‐term goals, but they deserve the severest opposition all the same.
Does that mean one-year solitary during peacetime for possessing the book? Or would possessing the book lead to the death sentence at all times?
Imprisonment if caught during peacetime.
I wonder if the USSR was the first place to start tackling anti-semitism and making like safe for Jews?
Off the top of my head, I cannot think of any other state before 1917 that made policies against antisemitism.
Are you yourself Palestinian, by any chance?
Great video overall, but it’s misleading to call the neocolony a ‘Jewish supremacist state’. It’s very discriminatory towards Jews of color, such as Jewish Arabs, black Jews, and even Sephardim (I think that some Sephardim are white, but I’m unsure), among others. That’s one of the reasons why I argued that Zionism is unhealthy for Jews and hence one of the many reasons why I’m anti‐Zionist.
Recently I found a paper on how Zionism harms Sephardim and I am in the process of reading it. I’ll share it here in a bit.
This made me smile.
The occupation of Palestine is the most embarrassing thing to happen to the Jewish people. As far as I’m concerned, these Palestinians are doing them a favour, and I hope that as many Jews as possible join them in advancing the deoccupation.
He more or less echoes what I wrote yesteryear. Whatever we think of Hamas or its operation on October 7, we need to understand the context that lead the organization to such extreme measures.
Zionism’s régime has repeatedly displayed a disinterest in negotiating with the resistance, and the Zionists have kept your Palestinian kin trapped in substandard conditions for decades, keeping them on inadequate diets, periodically bombing their homes, and massacring unarmed protestors during 2018–2019. It is not as if shooting settlers and taking hostages was the resistance’s first resort. It was the last resort.
I can submit that I do have certain problems with Hamas’s politics, but until the settlers surrender and this nightmare ends, we have higher priorities.
The quibbling over the term’s misnomial use is rather moot since it is hardly unusual for hatred of Jews to overlap with hatred of Arabs. The tendency to liken Muslims to Judaists (as documented in Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy) is prototypical of this, and more recently there was an incident only a few years ago when some Zionists almost assaulted a taxi driver because he looked Arab instead of Ashkenazi, so he had to loudly clarify that he was Jewish. Zionism may not harm Jews as harshly as Arab gentiles, but Zionism’s harm to Arab gentiles does have an echoic effect on many (especially lower‐class) Jews.
Furthermore, there are plenty of respectful, well educated Judaists who do admit to the existence of irreligious Jews and ethnic Jews, because a common Jewish tradition is that if at least your mother is Jewish, then so are you, even if you have never practised Judaism before. This is a tradition that predates the ethnonationalist fad of the long 19th century, and it is unnecessary to argue that Judaists are ‘racist’ for agreeing with or maintaining this tradition.
I feel like this topic is turning into another one of those ‘white Jews aren’t oppressed anymore’ dramafests, so I may consider locking or eliminating it soon as such discussions are rarely productive.
It still impresses me how so many Palestinians were willing to accommodate foreign Jews. Today, you can easily find Palestinians (e.g. Indie Nile) who respond very positively to Jewish compassion, and I have no doubt that Gazans would be delighted to receive kosher foods and Jewish help reconstructing Palestine. They aren’t like the Zionists who mock Indians for showing support for Zionism’s neocolonial project.
One could almost argue that the Fascists invented a self‐fulfilling prophecy when they declared and treated Jews as their worst enemies. Because of the Fascists’ antisemitic atrocities, for many Jews joining or collaborating with the Allies was not simply a matter of patriotic duty. It was personal. That’s why I’m so fascinated with the testimonies from the Allies’ Jewish personnel and collaborators. The Western ruling class might not have given a damn about the atrocities, but these people most definitely did.
My heart goes out to these and the other 1.5+ million Jews who bravely fought back for the millions of their kindred who couldn’t.
Shalom.
Kreyes ke la shoa es komparavle a los masakros kontra los armenios, los indijenos amerikanos &c.?
Lo pretungo porke se ke alungos djudeos dezaprovan talas komparezones.
Saludes.
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Argentina, muses Herzl, has some material benefits to recommend it. But Palestine “is our ever‐memorable historic home.”50 Here “our” clearly refers to “us” as Jews. In the same breath, he says, “We should there form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism.”51 Here “we” means “us” as Europeans.
In a similar vein (but more explicit and more pronounced), Max Nordau, speaking at an early Zionist Congress, said this: “We will endeavor to do in the Near East what the English did in India. It is our intention to come to Palestine as the representatives of culture and to take the moral borders of Europe to the Euphrates River.”52
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It’s called a shtreimel! Haredi husbands usually wear them on special occasions such as Shabbat and Pesach.