Israel just bombed a tent city full of #refugees who fled North #Gaza for #Rafah on the #IDF's orders.
Horrifying photos show families frantically rummaging through the carnage for the limbs of their family members. I won't reproduce them here, but they can be found on the bird site from @gazanotifications
They are murdering poor people trapped in a concentration camp, in the places they were told to flee for safety. They are killing impoverished, innocent, starving Palestinians, mostly under 30, with nowhere else to go.
This brutality is unparalleled in my lifetime. All studies show that Israel is in a class of its own, outdoing the Dresden bombings by a landslide. Saying this is not antisemitic: it is your duty, whoever you are.
I am #Jewish: spiritually, scholarly, and Litvak Ashkenazi. It's not antisemitic for me, OR ANY NON-JEW to say. In fact, its every human's duty to call for this bloodshed to cease IMMEDIATELY, and to even call for this genocidal Zionist occupation to be dismantled before there is any more blood shed. Nothing keeps my heart beating like my Arab and Muslim comrades speaking out against this barabarism every day. All while facing the harshest consequences of anyone! This ugliness would quite literally drive me to kill myself if I didn't know so many people who are so brave.
I have been doing activism in Palestine since 2012, both boots-on-the-ground defense of protestors, and teaching programming. These are not antisemites; my Palestinian friends are as close to me as any others. And I have had 6 students murdered in Gaza in 120 days. All the others are starving, fleeing from tent city to tent city, trying to survive the most hellish circumstances of drone democide any people have ever witnessed in the history of humanity. Thats a simple fact now.
If you are a goy and claim to support this in our name, WE WILL REMEMBER. The vast majority of #Jews outside of Israel who are under 40 years old are anti-Zionists today. All the fastest growing Jewish organizations of the past decade are anti-Zionist. And we will not forget those who cheered on a 21st century #Holocaust while evoking the memory of our family members killed by Nazi #Germany. Especially not the #Germans, who have been by far the worst inciters and supporters of genocide outside of #Israel.
Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
Our colleague Joseph Roche takes us to Uman, a small town in central #Ukraine where #Jewish pilgrims continue to make an annual trek to visit a #Hasidic saint’s tomb, to mark the Jewish New Year.
Look America, if you really can't distinguish between a deli in Los Angeles and a country on another continent I don't know what to say. But I do know that the left is rife with #antisemitism and wants to be Judenrein.
I've always been a litttle cynical but as the days go by since Oct 7 I feel like my lifetime of left activism was just embedding myself within my own lynch mob.
"A photograph of the graffiti in the Canters Deli parking lot showed three different areas beneath a mural depicting #Jewish history in L.A. defaced with phrases that read, “Israels only religion is capitalism,” “How many dead in the name of greed?” and “Free #Gaza.”
I had no idea referring to the tentacles of the Jewish lobby might sound antisemitic! 😆
"The #NewSouthWales premier, Chris Minns, has warned parliamentarians about sowing division in the community after a #Greens MP apologised for referring to the “tentacles” of the “#Jewish lobby” and its influence across Australia.
The Newtown MP Jenny Leong said she did not intend to reference an antisemitic cartoon depicting #Jews as an octopus when she made the comments at the #Palestine Justice Movement forum in #Sydney in December, where the boycott movement against #Israel was being discussed."
An open letter from over 1,000 Jewish writers and scholars warning that criticism of Israel is not inherently antisemitic, and arguing that it is produces real harm. It's also fundamentaly at odds with the teachings of Judaism itself
Hamas abused our children and are still currently doing so. They were repeatedly showing children videos they filmed of themselves committing the massacre while guns are pointed at their heads. Aged 4 to 16 including babies, one they claim to have murdered after kidnapping. Some of those children can barely speak and cannot smile. Some were separated from others in a dark room for many days. When will the world will see?
Writing from within Israel. #hamas#israel#palestine#abuse#jewish
37% of the activists arrested in #Germany on #antisemitism charges in the past 130 days have been #Jewish. #Jews make up less than 1% of the total population of Germany. Think about what that means.
Germans learned nothing beyond how to manufacture and promote a semblance of reconciliation in which Jews are a mere transference object through which Germans may be absolved of the crimes of Nazism and the #Nakba. When we no longer function as objects that Germans can transfer their responsibility for genocide onto — when we no longer serve to act as an insurance policy on their responsibility for crimes of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the commercial war economy of the imperial core — then suddenly Germans become the victims of antisemitism visited upon the German people by the Jews.
A society where that is even fathomable has not actually repented for the #Holocaust. Which is exactly why Germany is the world's #1 champion of the genocide in #Gaza.
A highway in #SanFrancisco was shut down by SEVERAL thousand protesters marching for a ceasefire, and a lot of major Western media outlets are not telling you about it.
Instead, places like CTV News and CNN are telling you that #MatthewPerry died.
Cool.
This protest brought to you by #Jewish Voice for #Peace, #Arab Resources and Organizing Center, and the #Palestinian Youth Movement... and protestors like you. ❤
"The #European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled that #Belgium’s bans on the slaughter of animals without stunning neither interfere with freedom of religion nor constitute discrimination, a ruling that shocked the European #Jewish Association, the largest federation of Jewish communities in #Europe."
Yesterday, I posted a reply to the, IMHO, unbalanced view of respected German philosopher, #JürgenHabermas*.
As he chiefly saw the #Jewish side of the conflict, I tried to balance this, taking all sides legitimate interests into account, while adding the civilian Palestinian perspective.
Today, I came across an excellent recent op'ed in the #NYT by #ThomasLFriedman, who--
Hello it is us, the evil, how dare we even exist! Israelis... And Jews 😮 Horrific, terrifying people.
Lol I'm so done with the whole world villainizing us it's fucking insane and ridiculous
This election story reads like every conversation on Fedi.
"#Missouri’s attorney general race is an unusually #Jewish one: Will Scharf, a #Republican former prosecutor trying to unseat incumbent Republican Andrew Bailey, wraps tefillin every day; Elad Gross, a Jewish former assistant attorney general on the other side of the ballot, is married to a founder of multiple local Jewish nonprofits.
These biographical details hardly figured in the race until this month, when a fourth candidate — #Democratic Rep. Sarah Unsicker — floated a #conspiracy theory developed by a known right-wing troll that Scharf and Gross were #Israeli sleeper agents on a mission to destroy #American#democracy."
Has nothing to do with #Israel & #Gaza. #Jews around the world are not & do not speak for the government of Israel. #Antisemitism is antisemitism. It is not a legitimate protest against actions of a government with which one disagrees, not an exercise of #FreeSpeech. It is #HateSpeech & #hate directed against #Jewish people. Innocent civilians were targeted by #Hamas on October 7, not military targets. Don't conflate the two. No "but..."
Woke up to a video denying the massacre sent by a past friend and collaborator. Holocaust denial level shit. I can't do this anymore. I feel like my whole life in the UK is a lie. I shouldn't have trusted anyone who called themselves a friend. They don't listen from a place of learning they don't respect the fact I live through it. I'm heart broken. I experienced more anti sematic behaviours in the past two weeks than in my entire life. I'm scared to exist anywhere. #israel#jewish
Shameful and outrageous behavior from people who would rather Jews all just disappear. These officials are just as bad as would-be vandals. #Antisemitism#Jews#Jewish
“Officials at Hyde Park draped the memorial, which commemorates the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, with a blue tarp on Saturday. Holocaust survivors labeled the action "shameful."”
"How does it feel to be a war-crimes reporter whose family bankrolled a nation that’s committing war crimes?
I can tell you.
I covered the genocide in Bosnia for The Post, wrote a book about it, and reported from Iraq & Afghanistan, among other conflict-ridden countries. Also, my ancestors were key funders of Jewish immigration to British-controlled Palestine." #GiftArticle#GiftLink https://wapo.st/3TUjTtp
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Shalom, I'm Feedback! I'm a #Jewish musician, photographer, and techie currently working in cybersecurity. Like a lot of online Jews, I've been feeling a much stronger pull towards Jewish community spaces in the wake of current events, and was extremely excited to learn about the existence of #mazeldon ! Looking forward to getting to know people here! #introduction