Eliana Glogauer

Tweets & retweets speak. Keyboard "activists": if you've only posted about colonization, oppressed Palestinians, occupied Gaza etc. this weekend without acknowledging the plight of Israeli and int'l civilian hostages/victims, take a hard look at your values & priorities... (1/?)

Hitting hospitals is a major crime, no matter who does it -- Be principled and condemn this act of aggression by the Iranian regime

Some Jews say this war taught them to embrace and stand up for Jewish lives. I understand that. However, the overall arch of the suffering from October 7th to today has shown me something different. I have seen such callousness emerge everywhere I look. And that is the real enemy of humanity. That disregard for human life. What I learned from seeing the misery of Jewish and Palestinian mothers is that all human lives are precious and that the root of all evil is to classify some lives as worth more and some as worth less because of their religions, where they were born, and other essentially insignificant characteristics. We shouldn't care if those suffering are Jews, Arabs, right-wing or left-wing. Zionist or anti-Zionist. If they are settlers or live in Tel Aviv. If they are in Gaza or the West Bank. It doesn't matter. As soon as you decide you care less about what happens to one group, you open the door to atrocities. That is the root of the unhealthy thinking that leads to wars and suffering.

As one familiar with Jerusalem, East & West, I can say unequivocally that the courageous residents of the Armenian Qtr are on the front lines of securing the character of Jerusalem, & the viability of all it's communities. I encourage you to extend them every possible support.

I’m really sick of media & viral social media posts painting the Jewish community in a false binary: pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian. The vast majority of American Jews support Israel (but not necessarily its government) AND believe in Palestinian humanity & self-determination.

What about Zionism? Most Palestinians believe that their traumatic lived experience is the direct result of Zionism & the Zionist project. My grandparents were pushed out of their homes in 1948, and I very much carry a generational trauma from their displacement. However, so many Palestinians & their allies still don't truly grasp the vast diversity of Zionism as an ideology & what it actually means to various Jewish & Israeli audiences. Zionists are not monolithic and come in all sorts of political, religious, social, and national orientations and tendencies. It’s hard to capture the nuances and intricacies of this topic in brief words on Twitter, but my main thoughts are: 1. The idea that the pro-Palestine cause can only be advanced by aligning with “anti-Zionist” Jews is inaccurate & and outright wrong and detrimental. Zionists are an inevitable part of the solution. 2. A Zionist doesn’t by default mean “anti-Palestinian” or anti just peace & coexistence with Palestinians. I understand why so many would think otherwise, but we need a different framework for working with Zionists and their beliefs to move forward and build a different future. 3. So many of the early Zionists were very left-leaning, pro-coexistence people who wanted to live side-by-side with the indigenous Palestinian population. And yes, many were militant from the get-go or became militant after skirmishes and clashes with Palestinian revolutionaries (right or wrong, but that’s what happened). The idea here is that Zionism is a diverse movement that was not just a bunch of angry or hateful European Jews who were seeking the displacement of Palestinians. There were also numerous Arab Jews who adopted Zionist ideologies because they, too (like many Muslims in the Middle East/ consider the Caliphates & their conquests), longed for a safe place that could unify them with their brethren. 4. Because of the thousands of years of diaspora & oppression, Zionism became an appealing ideology to so many Jews who were longing for a sense of belonging and the right to self-determination. I understand why so many Palestinians feel it's unfair for Jewish self-determination & liberation to come at their expense. But it’s important to understand this point to grasp why Zionism became a dominant theme within mainstream Judaism. 5. A free and prosperous Palestinian state will not come about from the “eradication” of Zionism, and the ideology is here to stay. Before you attack me as a “Zionist apologist," please understand that my motivation is for us to find a way to move forward & affect the trajectory of this horrendous and bloody conflict. 6. It is not inherently antisemitic to criticize Zionism, which is a multi-faceted ideology that should not be immune to critique & scrutiny. However, and especially in recent times, anti-Zionism critiques can often veer over to antisemitic tropes, stereotypes, and classically hateful sentiments that cross the line from anti-Israel/anti-Zionist activism to antisemitism. This has been especially disturbing to observe since the horrendous events of October 7th. The Palestinian people have legitimate grievances that are worthy of a just resolution. The occupation of the West Bank cannot go on forever if Israel is to have a secure future as a Jewish state. The despicable calls for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza’s population by high-ranking Israeli officials are immoral, terrible, problematic and must be confronted. Nevertheless, reductionist, simplistic slogans and rhetoric that pins all the ills, problems, issues, and current challenges experienced by Palestinians on Zionists and Zionism will neither advance the Palestinian cause nor will they help in understanding and working with Israelis and Jews for whom Israel means so much. Neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis are going anywhere – I'm not a Zionist. Still, I know that for peace to have any chance of succeeding, I have to work with Zionists and stop the endless cycle of demonization and dehumanization.

Some call it semantics, I disagree. The Israelis did themselves a disservice by claiming that "eradicating Hamas" was their overarching objective. #Hamas only needs to survive the current onslaught, which it will, to declare "victory." Strategic communications matter #Gaza

I am amused by people demanding I criticize Netanyahu. I have. For years. Do you understand that a lot of Jews, particularly those who observe Israeli politics, loathe Netanyahu for his corruption, cynicism, and divisiveness? Or are we a monolith to you?

It’s not anti-Semitic to criticize the Israeli government. It’s not anti-Semitic to put the current conflict in historical context. It’s not anti-Semitic to mourn the death of Palestinian civilians. But if you describe the slaughter of 1,400 civilians as “military action” or call for a ceasefire without mentioning the toddlers who are still in the clutches of a terrorist organization, people will rightly wonder why you don’t seem to give a single shit about the lives of innocent Jews.

Many on the academic Left treat the Hamas fighter as a noble savage who symbolizes revolt against the West and through whom the academic can experience the thrill of violence. The fighter is seen as the physical embodiment of the jargon: "decolonization"; "resistance"; "power."

Last week, I co-signed a letter with other First Nations leaders to Minister Joly condemning the terrorist attacks by Hamas onto Israel and Jewish people. I stand with Israel and the Jewish community. cc: @CJPAC @CIJAinfo

One thing I think people don’t understand is how panicked Hamas is right now. They launched their genocidal attack assuming a limited response and extensive support from Iran. Now it’s clear that Israel plans to wipe them out and Iran is reluctant to have proxies join so they don’t know what to do. Their only solution right now is to try to get others to step in to stop Israel either through political pressure or by forcing Hezbollah etc to join the war. That’s what the hospital lie was all about and why those who assisted the lie were behaving so irresponsibly.

I've known Palestinians personally and am aware of all the nuances of the conflict. But there can be no mistake: This massacre was not about land, occupation, or uprising. It was a pogrom against Jews because they were Jews. It is evil that should be denounced without footnotes.

I'm a left-leaning Jew who is not at all worried about alienating my progressive friends, family, and colleagues with a forceful denunciation of the massacre, rape, and kidnapping of more than a thousand Jews. Now is the time for us all to speak up. There's no "It's bad, but ..."

I’ve studied terrorism for over two decades. I’ve never seen a more disgusting, inhumane terrorism rampage than the one carried out by Hamas. But what’s even scarier & sick are the celebrations across the world for the barbarism & all the apologists over social media. We didn’t see this with ISIS which made that threat less international.

If you doubt statements by the Israeli authorities, yet never doubt Hamas’ reports of casualties and footage from Gaza, you’re just a tool.

PM @netanyahu - Hamas is not a state! Why explicitly elevate them to that status, and afford them legitimacy that they don't deserve?!

I never understood how someone could deny the Holocaust, but now, when I see people trying to "debunk" the fact that Hamas beheaded babies when it happened only days ago & there are many eyewitnesses who saw the corpses - not just Israelis - I see how that works.

The people saying “show me decapitated babies” sound a whole lot like the “no way 6 million Jews fit into ovens” people.

You wouldn’t view a mass shooting as an opportunity to highlight the select few passages of a shooter’s manifesto with which you agree, because to do so would reward violence and give the shooter what they wanted. These attacks by Hamas should be treated the same way.