The term “Zionist lobby” would be better described as “pro-Israel lobby”. Israel is not a Jewish only state, even with its quite exclusionary 2018 Nation State law. Some 20% of its population is not Jewish. There are no mainstream organisations in the Australian Jewish community that advocate a Jewish only state.
“The administration must work to defend our democracy fully, and ensure that no foreign state has a green light to inappropriately target American citizens or manipulate our democratic process.”
They have always been there but have been ignored. They have assassinated Israel’s PM and were forgotten. They are in the Israeli cabinet and have never been as powerful as they are today except for before Israel was created. They are what Israel has become today run by terrorists and gangsters. Ben Gvir has been and still is a terrorist who wants total control of Gaza. While Smotrich ran a blockade against Gaza not to keep Palestinians locked in but to stop Jews from leaving. They are the genocidal maniacs running Israel and Netanyahu is their puppet
The conclusion? “After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law,” to use the words of Bergman and Mazzetti. Yet no Israeli politician will dare say this in public.”
But two highly experienced reporters from The New York Times recently filed an extremely detailed report outlining the threat that the country faces from Jewish terrorists in the occupied West Bank – something which, according to the material they gathered, far exceeds any threat from the sources mentioned above.
Source: Jewish extremists in West Bank pose biggest threat to Israel: report – Pearls and Irritations
The media misrepresents the united front of protesters as being antisemitic when it’s fundamentally not. Mass graves are less critical than amplifying the feelings of some pro-Israel supporters.
The Guardian reported that “hundreds of members of the teaching cohort at Columbia walked out in solidarity with the students who were arrested” while “students put protest tents back up in the middle of campus on Monday after they were torn down last week when more than 100 arrests were made.”
Yonah Lieberman, co-founder of IfNotNow, a Jewish-led U.S. group that organizes against Israel’s apartheid, declared: “Solidarity with these faculty members. Shame on establishment politicians and agitators who are smearing the anti-war protest at Columbia as anything other than what it is: a courageous stand for freedom and peace.”
Source: Columbia Faculty Walk Out Over Student Suspensions, Arrest for Gaza Protests – ScheerPost
As we go forward, it is worthwhile to recall a truism about struggle often attributed to Mahatma Gandhi: First they ignore you; then they laugh at you; then they fight you; then you win. We have reached Stage 3. They are fighting us. As unpleasant as it is, remember this: The vehemence of the vituperation aimed at us is directly related to how close we are to winning.
Source: Why They Hate Us: Anti-Zionism in the Jewish Community – CounterPunch.org
Two Jews one who’s fanatically irrational literally voicing the same doctrines Nazis once espoused of Jews on Palestinians. The other is intellectually quite the opposite and provides substance to the fact why Jews are historically regarded as the most educated rational well-read people on the planet. Israelis and their ultra-right-wing supporters are not included in this cohort.
But Mr. Harris doesn’t just extenuate the genocide. He implicitly endows it with a positive content. Every Muslim—including every Muslim child—he enlightens listeners, is an actual or potential suicide bomber imperiling Western civilization. Isn’t it only a flea’s hop to infer that Israel is doing the (secular) Lord’s work in Gaza as it wages a civilizational war against “deranged” Muslim culture and even if one million children—pardon me: children who have been “rigged to explode”—might die? Mr. Harris somehow construes that it takes enormous moral courage to expose this Muslim peril on Piers Morgan’s program. Indeed, it takes as much courage as the German professor in the midst of the Nazi holocaust who sounded the alarm that “parasitic” Jewish culture was imperiling Aryan civilization.
Mr Harris proclaims that “This is the issue: we are dealing with a suicidal death cult.” I’m afraid, however, that the real issue is this: We are dealing with a Ziontology murder cult; and Mr. Harris is one of its gurus.
Source: SAM HARRIS: SAVANT IDIOT
Young Jews aren’t visibly demonstrating here in Australia, why?
A new documentary called Israelism tells the story of young American Jews coming to question the narrative they were taught about “the only democracy in the Middle East.”
Source: Israelism Is a Powerful Indictment of Pro-Apartheid Indoctrination
Jews support the “idea” of Israel do they support the reality or just stay shtum?
The State of Israel, I said, is currently a place where Jews as a people are not oppressed, and are actually the hegemon limiting the individual and national aspirations of a non-Jewish population. To claim that Palestinians are oppressed by Israel is not a provocative claim but a descriptive one, which raises a string of important questions.
These two very limited examples — the congregant who requested that I don’t talk about Israel, and the congregants who switched off as soon as I did — illustrate a shift in the American-Jewish attitude toward Israel, especially among liberal Jews. Don’t get me wrong, American Jews are still predominantly very pro-Israel; one need only witness the Israel Day Parade in Manhattan or other American cities to get a glimpse of that. But for many liberal Jews, the well-trodden expressions of support for Israel — “the most moral army in the world,” “the only democracy in the Middle East,” “no partner for peace” — are becoming less convincing as the reality on the ground makes them increasingly implausible.
Source: Are liberal American Jews becoming afraid to talk about Israel?
From New York to Bristol, Jewish communities have organised globally in protest over Israel’s brutal and ongoing displacement of Palestinian people. A look at American activist group Jewish Voice for Peace’s site shows a map of rallies and campaigns across all of the U.S.; many of them are organised by Jewish groups outright, or in concert with Palestinian-led groups. Jews are showing up en masse. Anyone surprised by this is not paying enough attention.
Establishment Jewish organizations are working to shut down all criticism of Israel. Will their challengers on the left finally take a stance?
US Jews are increasingly vocal on Israel. Why are their progressive groups still silent?
All this is a sign of just how far to the right the American Jewish establishment has lurched in during the Netanyahu era. Had he remained in Israel on the kibbutz, Sanders would likely be just another septuagenarian supporter of the left-wing Zionist Meretz party. But in many Jewish communities in the United States, even views like those of Meretz have long been considered beyond the pale.
via Why are American Jews so afraid of one of their own? – +972 Magazine
In order to protect our communities, we must deepen solidarity between Jews, immigrants, Muslims, and all groups targeted by white nationalism and the racist rhetoric of the Trump camp. This means engaging with our differences in a shared understanding that it is the right which seeks to exclude and scapegoat our communities and silence our allies. The future of multiracial democracy depends on it.
The GOP has mainstreamed white nationalist anti-Semitism | +972 Magazine
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Republican Party is not directly responsible for the spike in hate crimes toward minorities. But it is indirectly responsible in three ways:
1. The party has largely allowed itself to be captured by the alien ideology of Trumpism
2. The party is running at least 16 far, far right extremists [with two ‘fars’] for national office, and many more far right extremists [with just one ‘far’].
3. Media catering to the GOP, such as Fox Cable News and right wing talk radio, is vicious toward minorities and often uses dog whistles against Jews.
While the Democratic Party is not entirely free of far right racists, the phenomenon in that party is tiny compared to the problem in the Republican Party. This difference comes in part from the way the three considerations listed above are entangled with and reinforce one another.
via The GOP’s Dark Side: Trumpism puts Jews and other Minorities in the Crosshairs
Let’s stop calling those who have bombed, shot, or burned Palestinians ‘Jewish.’ Let’s call them what they really are: Israeli. By Yonatan Englender Israel is a country that is quick to appropriate every phenomenon or activity that takes place within it, from the success of its tech entrepreneurs (in whom the state did not invest even a single shekel) to the successes of its athletes (for whom the state did not provide even the most basic conditions for adequate practice). Even environmental disasters and car crashes are quickly turned into national events. [tmwinpost] Therefore, it is a bit strange that we refrain from referring…
A new government report published on the eve of Israel’s Independence Day only concerns itself with infant mortality statistics and life expectancy of Jewish citizens. What does that say about Israel’s attitude towards non-Jews? It is not all that uncommon for nationalist Israelis to accuse anybody politically to the left of them of supporting, or attempting to transform Israeli into “a state of all its citizens.” The idea being that a state which sees, counts, serves, and protects all of its citizens equally, irrespective of ethnicity or creed, would destroy Israel as we know it — Israel the Jewish state, which…
Source: In Israel’s official portrait, only Jewish lives matter | +972 Magazine
The Bavarian parliament has held a discussion on whether Hitler’s notorious ‘Mein Kampf’ should become a part of the school curriculum. The idea was blasted by the country’s Jewish groups who called the book an “antisemitic concoction of hatred.”
Source: Bavaria may introduce Hitler’s Mein Kampf in schools to ‘immunize’ youngsters — RT News
The operation transporting them to Israel almost brings to an end the Jewish community in Yemen, which once numbered around 60,000 people and dates back some 2,000
Source: Israel brings Jews out from war-torn Yemen in covert operation – Your Middle East
“We’re very grateful for Netanyahu’s concern but having said that, we are Danish — we’re Danish Jews but we’re Danish — and it won’t be terror that makes us go to Israel,” said a spokesman for the Jewish Community in Denmark, Jeppe Juhl.
“So we understand his concern for our well-being, and we value his concern but we are Danish and we’re staying in Denmark. If we move to Israel it’s for other reasons,” he told AFP.
Netanyahu on Sunday urged European Jews to move to Israel after a Jewish man was killed outside Copenhagen’s main synagogue in one of two attacks in the city at the weekend.
“Israel is your home. We are preparing and calling for the absorption of mass immigration from Europe,” Netanyahu said in a statement, repeating a similar call after attacks by jihadists in Paris last month that killed 17 people including four Jews.
Danish intelligence said the gunman who opened fire outside the synagogue and a cultural centre may have been inspired by last month’s Islamist attacks in Paris.
Two policemen who were injured outside the synagogue had been posted there after community leaders contacted authorities following Saturday’s shooting at the community centre that left one person dead.
Around 8,000 Jews live in Denmark, most of them in Copenhagen and with smaller communities in the cities of Aarhus and Odense, according to the Jewish Community of Denmark.
During the Gaza conflict in August, Copenhagen’s Jewish school, Carolineskolen, had its windows smashed and anti-Jewish graffiti spray-painted on its walls.
The incident took place shortly after a rise in anti-Semitic crimes in Denmark prompted politicians to organise a “kippah march” in Copenhagen in support of Jewish people’s right to display their religion openly.
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