Faith Quintero
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Wrote Loaded Blessings. Words in places. Values people, animals, environment. pro-peace = pro-Israel
I called on city commissioners in Coral Springs, FL, last week to adopt the International Holocaust Rememberance Alliance definition of antisemitism—the best tool we have for identifying anti-Jewish bigotry. We are living in the era of antizionist racism, and if Jews don’t stand up, speak out, and fight the libel-machine that has demonized us 24/7 since October 7, we are going to lose the ability to live freely as Jews in the Diaspora. The bigotry we face is a highly accelerated variety of antizionist Jew-hatred, the rapid spread of which historians have not previously seen. That’s why calling on our elected officials to pass the IHRA definition is so important. Already adopted by more than 40 countries and 38 U.S. states, IHRA provides examples of contemporary antisemitism, including instances of antizionist bigotry that include denying the Jewish people the right to self-determination, comparing Israel to the Nazis, and falsely labeling Israel as inherently racist—rhetoric frequently deployed by groups participating in the antizionist hate movement, which opposes IHRA. The definition explicitly protects First Amendment rights and does not prohibit non-bigoted criticism of Israel, but instead provides a framework for identifying racist and dehumanizing rhetoric that has historically led to violence against Jews. Prior to the October 7 atrocities in Israel, IHRA laws were broadly supported by Democrats and considered non-controversial. But since the massacre, antizionist ideology has entered the mainstream of Democratic politics, with many Democratic politicians seeking to appease the most energized part of the party’s base—antizionists in favor of destroying Israel as a Jewish state—by opposing IHRA. I will be speaking to as many local governments as I can in FL and Missouri in the months ahead to call on them to adopt IHRA. Please join me in this fight to protect our people, our allies, and future generations by speaking to your own elected representatives about IHRA. #jewish #ihra #florida
There were no illustrations for the New York Times’ fawning review of Molly Crabapple’s book on the Bundists, the inspiration for the Peter Beinart types of today, so I took the liberty of adding some. The Bundists were wrong and dumb when they spent the decades leading up to the Holocaust fighting Zionism, telling people that the lands that would soon build crematoria to incinerate their used-up bodies were their true homeland. But they couldn’t see the future. They mostly paid with their lives, at the hands of Stalin or the Third Reich. But the neo-Bundists—happily, a tiny and irrelevant fraction today, though they are the New York Times’ favourite Jews—don’t have the excuse of ignorance. They know that many leaders of the Bund who weren’t slaughtered in Stalin’s purges were killed in the Holocaust. They know that Bundism was thus repudiated in the most visceral possible way. Not only did they mostly get themselves killed, but the people who bought their philosophy mostly paid for it with their lives and those of their children. The more you were a Zionist in pre-war Europe, the more likely you were to make it to 1945. So the neo-Bundists aren’t just wrong and stupid like the Bundists, they are truly sinister. But to actually name the book “Here, Where We Live, Is Our Country” after the famous slogan that encapsulates the ironic and blood-soaked repudiation of their mission, is to say to their fellow Jews in 2026: we hate Zionism so much that even the Holocaust doesn’t make us flinch; nothing at all is worse than Jewish self-determination. It’s a sort of virtue signal to their bigoted friends, an act of sick trolling. There will always be people like Crabapple and Beinart and their little cult of hand-wringing, self-congratulatory bores, but the New York Times plumbs new depths with this fawning review.
