Gedaliahu
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Gedaliahu
@ChananMazal
לוליאן ההולך על חבל דק. יהודי. בן זוג. אבא. סבא. ירושלמי. ציוני. צייר ואמן.

















This is correct. The test is simple. Duriing the period between October 7 and the beginning of Israel's military campaign did we see sympathy that was subsequently lost by the ferocity of that campaign? We did not. what we saw - especially on campuses was the celebration or rationalisation of the mass murder, sexualised sadism and torture and hostage taking as legitimate resistance against colonial oppressors irrespective if they were children, Nova festival goers, elderly holocaust survivors, people who had spent lives working for peace. The slaughter excited a thirst for more not less Jew- killing and not the end of occupation but the end of Israel. Then came the world wide avalanche of Jew hatred and Hamas cosplaying by drum- beating white people guilty about their own colonial history and displacing it on to Jews that gets ever more toxically racist; a virulent hatred so intense it of course strenthens not weakens the case for Zionism,


“It isn’t antisemitic to disagree with Israeli government policies.” But Israel’s critics cannot actually name an Israeli government policy they disagree with that meets all of the following criteria: (a) the policy actually exists, and either (b) (i) other nations do not have the same policy, or, (ii) other nations indeed do have the same policy and the Israel critic also criticizes the other nations as often, as loudly, and in the same manner as he or she criticizes Israel. If you cannot meet those criteria, then you are treating the Jewish state — the only country with a predominantly Jewish population, and the country in which half of the world’s Jews live — in a different manner. And THAT is antisemitic.



Professor Derek R. Peterson, a University of Michigan historian and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, thanked “pro-Palestinian student activists” during a graduation speech today, for “opening our hearts to the injustices and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.” Peterson teaches history and African studies at the University of Michigan, where he also became chair of the faculty senate in 2025.


















