Erica Verrillo

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Erica Verrillo

@EricaVerrillo

Author of #fantasy & medical books. Certain people should probably avoid meeting me in a dark alley, but otherwise harmless. #MECFS #writer

Massachusetts Katılım Şubat 2013
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Erica Verrillo
Erica Verrillo@EricaVerrillo·
In 1975 I decided to hitchhike to Antarctica. I only made it as far as Argentina, where I fell in love with a handsome guerrilla. Soon I became a target in the Dirty War. I had to escape, but my passport was a death sentence and the military was closing in on us . #A #mem #PitMad
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Dan Burmawi
Dan Burmawi@DanBurmawy·
Muhammad canonized his culture. The tribal raid became jihad. The tribal code became Sharia. Tribal loyalty became submission, the literal meaning of the word Islam. And the tribal chieftain’s psychology, jealous of rivals, generous to the loyal, merciless to the disloyal, and above all incapable of absorbing an insult, was projected onto the heavens and named Allah. Men everywhere create gods in their own image; the men of Muhammad's time and place created a god who, like them, would rather kill than be laughed at. Other civilizations outgrew their tribal deities, Islam sealed the tribal moment inside a book declared perfect and eternal, and shipped the seventh century, intact and unrevisable, into every century that followed, including ours. When a mob in a modern capital demands blood over a cartoon, you are watching ancient Arabia, cryogenically preserved in scripture, thawed out on a twenty-first-century street. The link to my latest article in the comments
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Sarrah Bellus
Sarrah Bellus@sarrah_bellus·
Hard to believe this guy would later turn the White House into a tacky monstrosity.
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Erica Verrillo
Erica Verrillo@EricaVerrillo·
@Shoshana51728 @EinatWilf There's an even bigger forest. Israel is crucial for uniting Arabs who, otherwise, would expend their energies killing one another. Going back in time, the same was true for Germany (blaming Jews for the WWI defeat), etc, etc, etc. Antisemitism is the quintessential distraction.
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Shoshana🦁🌞🇸🇨🪬🇮🇷@Shoshana51728·
" @EinatWilf – prolific author on Israel and Zionism, articulate lecturer, and former MK in the Labor Party and Ehud Barak’s short-lived Independence faction – has a suggestion: Stop focusing on the trees. Look at the forest. Each UN report, each Amnesty International document, is a tree. Stopping at each one means getting lost in the forest. The bigger picture, Wilf contends, is far more dangerous: the relentless equation of Israel and Zionism with whatever evil is dominating the discourse at the time – imperialism, colonialism, apartheid, white supremacy, and genocide. This is part of a much broader and more pernicious campaign: instilling a global mindset that the world would be better off without the collective Jew. This is, by no means, a new mindset – indeed, it is an ancient one, she said. It is the notion that “there is a better world out there – a world of salvation, a world of racial purity, a world of human rights, of cleanliness, and that the collective Jew stands between this world and utopia.” She argued that the same animating idea is at work today, but few articulate it in these terms. Israel’s reaction to the UN report, therefore, should not have been localized or limited to condemning it as libel, she maintained, but rather placing it in this much broader context. Wilf, a Jerusalem native with a BA in government and fine arts from Harvard and a PhD in political science from Cambridge, has lectured and written extensively about what she calls the Palestinian “placard strategy.” HE WORDS on the placards themselves – “colonialism,” “racism,” “apartheid” – matter less than their endless repetition, she argued. These words appear repeatedly in protests, the media, social media, and, crucially, institutions with global prestige, like the UN, giving them a veneer of legitimacy. Wilf recalled a former KGB officer’s observation that “prestige suspends judgment.” If a prestigious institution – a UN body, a university, a human rights organization – endorses an idea, it gains automatic respectability. That is why, she explained, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was so effective: 120 years ago, a book carried prestige, even if it was a fabrication. Today, the same laundering process takes place. The formula – “Israel, Zionism, Star of David = evil” – gets reinforced through institutions that still command authority, however misplaced. Human rights organizations, academia, and the UN serve as conduits for these libels. Wilf noted that one can even earn a PhD by arguing that Zionism is colonialism. A tenure-track career can be built on the claim that Israel is an apartheid state. CONTRARY TO popular belief, Wilf argued, Israel is not simply engaged in a PR battle. The issue is more profound: A global mindset is being shaped – one that sees the world’s problems as solvable if only Israel ceased to exist. And as was chanted repeatedly after Oct. 7, this can be achieved “by any means necessary.” Why are all means legitimate? Because if the collective Jew is perceived as the last barrier to utopia, then any means of erasing it are justified. Wilf cited a chilling example: A placard after Oct. 7 showing an Israeli flag in a dustpan with the caption, “Keep the world clean.” “It is not a coincidence that all the evil words are on the side of Israel, Zionism, Star of David,” she said, “and that all the good words – justice, equality, freedom, and rights – are on the side of its negation, what I have come to call ‘Palestinianism,’ which is ultimately an ideology that is built on the negation of the collective Jew.” This is the bigger picture, she said, and one that needs to be conveyed. Once we do this, she continued, “We need to let people understand that this is the kind of ideology that brings down societies and that you do not have any moment in history where societies become obsessed with the notion that the collective Jew stands between them and utopia, and somehow it ends well.” Rather than merely refuting each new libelous UN report, Israel must expose the deeper pattern at play. This “virus,” she warned, has been inserted into the Western world – into the US, France, and Britain. She also said that the Jewish people historically have had a “timing problem.” “By the time the world wakes up to how destructive these ideologies are, we often suffer the brunt of the damage,” she argued. “So we need to first of all focus on ensuring that we suffer as little damage as possible as this ideology works itself through the world, but we have allies, and we have friends. We need to help them understand what’s going on.” Palestinianism has certain core tenets, she said, among them: From the river to the sea, there will be no Jewish state; Palestinians are perpetual refugees until “return is achieved”; return is not some “soft nostalgia” for a great-grandparent’s home – Oct. 7 is return: The erasure of Israel and Zionism is the only acceptable outcome. Paradoxically, since he was no friend of the Jews, British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin encapsulated the essence of this “Palestinianism” in a speech he gave to Parliament in 1947 explaining why Britain was returning its mandate over Palestine to the UN. Wilf often cites this speech: “His Majesty’s Government have thus been faced with an irreconcilable conflict of principles. For the Jews, the essential point of principle is the creation of a sovereign Jewish state. For the Arabs, the essential point of principle is to resist to the last the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of Palestine.” That, she maintains, is the essence of the conflict – having nothing to do with occupation, settlements, displacement, or even the policies of this or that Israeli government. Wilf sees Palestinianism as an ideology of erasure. “It does not seek self-determination. It does not seek statehood. It does not seek independence. It seeks only to prevent to the last the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of the land,” she said." jpost.com/israel-news/ar…
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Christopher Webb
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline·
The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people. The White House belongs to the American people. Every president is just a temporary tenant.
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Harry Litman
Harry Litman@harrylitman·
A lawyer has now spoken separately to the 3 men who were w/ Salgado Araujo in the van when he was killed. All 3 contradict ICE's account. All 3 say no ICE vehicle was ever in front of them and that agent just got out of the car and started shooting from the side. No ICE agent was wearing a body cam.
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Scott MacFarlane
Scott MacFarlane@MacFarlaneNews·
The Lincoln Memorial Before Trump's Monumental Arch Then... after Trump's Monumental Arch is complete ====>
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