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@RabbiPoupko What’s antisemitic about the mural - please educate me? Would it have been more factual to draw a picture of an Israeli soldier shooting a toddler in the head? And no, this wasn’t an ‘accidents happen in a war’ situation

The Israeli helicopter using a precision missile to target 🎯 a Palestinian child with his teddy bear 🧸 captures the essence of European antisemitism. It is the same old hateful ideology riddled with conspiratorial hate.

@dstei90035 @CohenMendelson @Celestemarcus3 Can you help me understand - what is Judea and Samaria?

@Theo121andfun @CohenMendelson @Celestemarcus3 Do you realize that there are 10x more Arab terrorist acts in Judea and Samaria then there are such acts by these Jewish criminals?

I cannot and will never understand how so many Jews who were raised to be loyal to Israel do not care about the democratic integrity of that country Our collective betrayal of the values that lifted us out of oppression astonishes me every single day

@CohenMendelson @Celestemarcus3 I can’t understand your comparison. In the US, national authorities didn’t protect rioters or participate in violence against a specific ethnic group. Since 2022, Israel has descended into a Kahanist-style state - perhaps it always has been this way, but emboldened post 7 Oct

@Theo121andfun @Celestemarcus3 and btw, i saw the videos of the people looting stores and rioting violently in america after george lloyd was killed. so should i say that it was sanctioned by the american government? all americans are violent? or is israel the only country to be censored??

@CohenMendelson @Celestemarcus3 You don’t have to live in a country to observe that society ‘and then give an opinon’. Have you seen the videos of pogroms through the streets of E.Jerusalem? The acts of settler violence against Palestinians in the W.Bank. All underwritten by the state

@Celestemarcus3 what are you talking about? please enlighten. or perhaps just come and live in israel and then give an opinion

@CoreyWriting Because apartheid is a form of racial segregation (e.g. two separate legal systems for Israeli Jewish settlers in the WB and Arab Christian/Muslims), whereas Palestinian is a nationality. Many Palestinian refugees from 48 have citizenship in neighbouring countries

Why aren't the Arab states that absorbed Palestinian refugees in 1948 not called "apartheid" for refusing to give them citizenship or rights? Why are these standards never applied to Arab countries?

@RaphiGolan @YairGolan1 The Arabs in East Jerusalem are literally subject to a pogrom by ethno-nationalist Jews, yet you refer to the victims as Nazis. You’re deranged, and lost

@YairGolan1 אתה אידיוט מנותק מי ישמע אותך יחשוב ערביי מזרח ירושלים הם חובבי ציון כירושלמי כל חיי ערביי מזרח ירושלים הם לא פחות מנאצים ארורים ה7 באוקטובר הוא סרט קומדיה בשבילם .

ירושלים היא בירת ישראל. אין על כך מחלוקת אבל ריבונות היא לא רישיון לאלימות והשפלה. כוח יהודי ציוני אמיתי לא נמדד ביכולת לצעוק על סוחר מוסלמי בסמטה בעיר העתיקה או להכות עיתונאים. הוא נמדד ביכולת להחזיק עיר מורכבת, קדושה, נפיצה ומפוארת באחריות, בביטחון, בכבוד ובממלכתיות. יום ירושלים היה פעם יום של התרגשות. יום של זיכרון. יום שבו סיפרנו לעצמנו סיפור גדול על חזרה הביתה, על בירת ישראל, על עיר שחוברה לה יחדיו. בשנים האחרונות הימין הקיצוני חטף לנו את היום הזה. לקחו את הדגל והפכו אותו למקל. לקחו יום לאומי והפכו אותו למפגן של עליונות, גזענות ותקיעת אצבע בעין. לקחו את אהבת ירושלים והחליפו אותה בפרובוקציה. אז לא. זו לא אהבת ירושלים. מי שמכבד את דגל ישראל לא משתמש בו כדי לכסות על שנאה. יום ירושלים הוא לא של הכהניסטים הקיצוניים שמחפשים תמונות פרובוקציה בשער שכם. הוא לא של מי שהפכו את העיר הקדושה ביותר לישראל לזירת התגרות פוליטית. ירושלים לא צריכה מצעד של שנאה. היא צריכה הנהגה עם עמוד שדרה, לב פתוח ואחדות מחברת.

@afalkhatib @GovMikeHuckabee @USAmbIsrael Board of Peace is a sham. Some with good intentions, most with none. Its efficacy is a sign of desperation from a minority that want to see improvements for Gazans, and for the majority that want to use it as a vehicle for bigger ambitions where the Palestinians do not figure

At an event where I met US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee @USAmbIsrael), I shared that if Hamas wants to ignore its commitments under President Trump’s ceasefire plan and stall for time, threatening Gazans and people like myself for saying we need to move civilians out of its grip, then it is time for us to begin moving civilians out of its violent grip beyond the “Yellow Line” and into areas of Gaza that it doesn’t control. Enough time has passed. We cannot miss the window to empower the Board of Peace (@BoardOfPeace) to change realities on the ground and launch a genuine process of deradicalization and transformation. Further negotiations are pointless. Hamas will never voluntarily disarm, and it will continue to rule Gaza so long as it retains weapons or holds two million Palestinians as hostages to its Jihadi death cult. I urged the Ambassador for the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem to take more assertive steps to strengthen the Board of Peace’s chances of success. I hope the coming weeks bring movement and real updates. Stay tuned.

@LindaFalulu @Wije73381133 @strxwmxn @jonfavs Thanks Linda. I’ve read reports about a Palestinian orthopaedic surgeon who was detained for four months without trial and later died in Ofer Prison. Israel has also refused to return his body to his family - not sure why. Are these facts or just inconvenient truths..?

@Theo121andfun @Wije73381133 @strxwmxn @jonfavs That's not who is in those prisons. Keep up with facts

Are all these sources fake, too? "My reporting for this article is based on conversations with 14 men and women who said they had been sexually assaulted by Israeli settlers or members of the security forces. I also spoke to family members, investigators, officials and others."

@LindaFalulu @Wije73381133 @strxwmxn @jonfavs Detaining people simply because they live in areas where Hamas terrorists operate, and then subjecting them to abuse, does not make them guilty of anything. Looks like Israel is descending into a lawless state where its own citizens accept rape as a legitimate right…

@Wije73381133 @strxwmxn @Theo121andfun @jonfavs They're in prison. No if

@SydneyAnneToo @SethAMandel Correct. Anyone denying what happened on 7 Oct lacks humanity. But how does reporting on acts of sadistic violence committed by the IDF undermine ‘Western journalism’?

@Theo121andfun @SethAMandel Human dignity was violated multiple times on October 7 with medieval torture and murder.

The destruction of Western journalism was an inside job commentary.org/seth-mandel/jo…

@strxwmxn @jonfavs But if people are summarily rounded up ‘for allegedly committing crimes’, does that provide a justification to rape and abuse them? What a sick and depraved mind you must have to justify the unjustifiable

@jonfavs These 14 men and women were detained by Israel for allegedly committing crimes. This is not some random sampling of upstanding citizens. Gawd, you people are so naive (if I'm being charitable).

@AI34513 @Aduray360 @LekhtNaya @nytimes I think the evidence has been there since the beginning. You just have to look

@Aduray360 @LekhtNaya @nytimes Show me your evidence of Israeli rape dogs. Otherwise shut up!

The @nytimes published the dog rape libel. Let us not be shocked by this. The most coveted spaces have been captured by antizionism. Antizionism, like antisemitism and antijudaism, is a demonization project. It is not interested in the real Israel or the real Zionist. It constructs the Jew, here the Jewish nation state, into a demon so as to sanction violence against it. Indeed, the accusations function as permission slips to do onto the Jews what the Jew is being accused of. Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lichinsky were murdered exactly one week after the New York Times published the "Israel kills babies in Gaza" blood libel. The New York Times is today's Der Sturmer. In the not so distant future, historians will write about how antizionism was the main driver of violence against Jews. It will be exposed. It is only a matter of time.

@seferbamidbar @aj_d___ @paulrubens @faniaoz Based on this logic, would it be correct to say that the violence associated with Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territories since 69 created Hamas?

@aj_d___ @paulrubens @faniaoz Palestinians created Smotrich If Palestinians want less Israelis to see the world like Smotrich, Palestinians need to learn to act like human beings

A Gazan majority for the two-state solution. Wow. I wonder if people who reproach me for my ‘Zionist’ support for a free Palestine next to Israel will attack these peace-seeking Gazans quite as acrimoniously.

@ShippersUnbound @JennaSaeed2000 @mehdirhasan What about when the actions of the ‘start up nation’ undermine core British values - international law/rules based order, human rights, democratic values? Do you also oppose extremism nihilistic Jewish nationalism in the WB, or is it just an Islam vs the West frame for you?

Again, opposing Islamist terrorists is not racism. I am opposed to the practitioners and advocates of extremism nihilistic political Islam. Polling shows a very significant proportion of British Muslims sympathises with them and it’s equally repellent to me that you seem happy to count yourself among them. Israel is an amazing start up nation which is one of the leading tech centres on the planet. It has given far more to the world than Palestine. And British Jews are hugely industrious and massive financial contributors. They don’t harbour people who would blow us up. These things matter to some of us when choosing sides. Do I like how Netanyahu has handled it? Of course not. Much of it is disgusting. But I don’t find it difficult to think my interests and those of my country are better aligned to Israel’s than to a people who have repeatedly been offered a state and have made perfect the enemy of the good. Arafat’s decision to reject a state based on 97% of what he wanted is the single worst political decision made anywhere in the world in my lifetime. I suspect you are too young to remember that but it’s my formative experience on this issue and it was a self inflicted tragedy. Your formative experience is looking at TikTok and thinking war is hell. It is. But if there had been TikTok in the Second World War you’d have lost your shit about that too

I see multiple prominent UK political journalists quote-tweeting this Green mayor and snarkily saying he should be focused on bin collection as if UK mayors and councils of all parties and none haven't twinned their towns with 100s of towns and cities across the world - including in Israel. As if it isn't normal practise. But hey, it's the Greens and it's the Palestinians, so the UK media establishment looks for any ridiculous excuse for a pile-on. You don't hate parts of our mainstream media enough. zeteo.com/subscribe

@brightswordlol @MaxNordau If only there was some way to protect our press from further ‘brownification’. Perhaps we need our version of Schriftleitergesetz - certificates for designated journalists from approved races? Oh yes, it will be people like you that will defend our way of life

@MaxNordau the brownification of prestige media continues apace

Repeating the “Israeli rape dogs” story—without clarifying that it’s absurd nonsense—should be a fireable offense.

@musicahelena @MaxNordau @Eyalo365 Reporting a story that’s been independently corroborated, including through other eyewitness accounts and Israeli human rights organisations, is journalism, not propaganda. Did you think the video released by Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi from Sde Teiman camp was also propaganda?

@MaxNordau @Eyalo365 Propoganda for Hamas. Shame on you!

@KathrynPaisner @MaxNordau Perhaps the editor is an antisemite. It must be hard for you when your core values clash with liberal ideals.

@MaxNordau On the other hand, including it effectively demonstrates both your gullibility and the untrustworthiness of your reporting. Hard to understand how it got past an editor, though.

@nopaliprop @SarahEttedgui Ah yes, the British Mandate. A shining example of self-determination and the rule of law. The Mandate makes no mention of ancestral homeland, but a ‘historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine’. Even in colonial times, they knew how to avoid dumb arguments

@Theo121andfun @SarahEttedgui League of Nations mandate 1922

What Are We Actually Saying When We Say “Zionist”? Today would have been the birthday of Golda Meir, who once said: “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.” I found myself thinking about that line in the context of a question I have not been able to set aside. I was speaking with a friend recently, someone much smarter than I am by any measure of the word, and it left me with this: What, today, is the point of identifying as a Zionist? The original national project, the reestablishment of a Jewish state, has already been realized with the Israeli Declaration of Independence. That is a political fact. So what, precisely, are we describing when we use that term now? Are we, perhaps, shooting ourselves in the foot by failing to draw a clear line between the political Zionism of the early Zionists, which led to the establishment of the state, and what follows from that moment? That phase was necessary, grounded, and it achieved its purpose. What remains is not the creation of a state, but its continued existence and legitimacy. Part of what I am grappling with is whether continuing to describe this as a “belief” is even accurate. The right of a people to self-determination is not typically framed as something optional or contingent. It is grounded in the principle of Self-determination and, in this context, was recognized at the international level, including in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181. We do not generally speak about the self-determination of other peoples, particularly Indigenous peoples, as something that must be continuously justified. We treat it as a given. Which brings me to the current discourse. “Anti-Zionism” is often presented as if it were simply criticism of Israeli policies, which is of course completely absurd. Plenty of people are critical of Israeli policies and do not identify as “anti-Zionist.” This is something else. Antizionists themselves apply internal rules and frameworks that go well beyond critique to determine who is fit to be accepted and who are deemed “the good Jews.” You see this in anti-normalization policies with perceived Zionists, in the adoption of boycott frameworks like BDS, and in the application of a settler-colonial lens to Jews. All of this is directed at attacking the legitimacy of Jewish self-determination in Israel. Practically speaking though, there is no existing mechanism in international law to dismantle a state against the will of its population. Which makes the hypocrisy of that claim even more striking. If all that is right, then perhaps we need to be more precise, as a community, or rethink how we speak, so as not to allow antizionists to shield themselves behind the claim that this is merely criticism of policies. For me, a Zionist has always meant nothing more and nothing less than recognizing the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. And since this is a right, grounded in history and recognized in international law, calling it a “belief” is not the right way to frame it. I don’t really have a settled answer as to what purpose the label “Zionism” continues to serve, beyond its historical role in describing the movement that led to the reestablishment, and decolonization, of our homeland. Curious to hear how others are thinking about this. And if anyone has thoughtful book recommendations on the evolution of Zionism or post-statehood Jewish political thought, I would genuinely appreciate it.