אהובה החבובה

as for "from the river to the sea", yes obviously most people don't know the history and only mean they want Palestinian freedom. I too want Palestinian freedom. but that does not erase the antisemitic, nigh-genocidal origins of the phrase, which was a promise specifically to kill all the Jews of Israel and push their corpses into the sea.

That's. That's literally. The OP. The post. The first. That's what the original. It's right there. But. The post.

Like legitimately this is the point of the original post. I wasn't going to reblog this version, but that's literally the point of the post!!!

Also, using Zionist like that is also a problem! Don't conflate all Jews with Zionism; yeah that's only around ninety percent of us! Because you don't know what it means, because you've been absorbing Jew hatred. So I hope whoever asked this goes deeper into this and really tries to learn. Palestinians deserve to be free and have rights and be safe, but dogwhistles don't help that!

I'm also surprised that it doesn't say that the Arabic version of the phrase is "...Palestine will be Arab" as opposed to free, because that's a lot more blatant for seeing the Jew hatred.

Abravanel wrote his letter entirely in Hebrew as part of a correspondence with a rabbi in Italy, and he tells him that this issue has been on his mind constantly day and night as they work to free all the Moroccan Jews and bring them to safety in Portugal.

Jewish prisoners in Treblinka rose up and set the death camp on fire.

Nearly 900,000 Jews had already been murdered there. Almost no one lived more than a few hours after arrival. By the summer 1943, only about 840 prisoners remained. They were forced to sort the clothes of the dead and burn the bodies. They knew they were next.

So they planned the impossible.

They forged a key to the SS armory. Stole rifles, pistols, and grenades. The password was “Death!” answered by “Life!”

That afternoon the signal came. They attacked the guards, ignited the barracks and fuel tanks, and stormed the fences. For a brief moment, the camp built solely to erase them burned by Jewish hands.

200–300 men broke into the forests. Most were hunted down and killed in the days that followed. Only about 70 lived to see the end of the war.

They did not liberate Treblinka.

They did not stop the Holocaust.

But in a place designed for their total annihilation, they chose to fight back and seek freedom.

A handful survived to tell the world exactly what this place was.

Making my own post for Reasons.

i didn't.

i feel like i understand it more now.

you wake up one day in october and discover that people who you have worked for, people you have sacrificed for, have decided you are an Ungeziefer.

(people translate that as bug, because they don't want to acknowledge you. but that's not what it means. it means vermin.)

and you're still you, but people won't see that. they avoid you. they talk about you as though you're not there.

they injure you, they hurt you.

no one cares.

they were once your family, you considered them your family, but apparently you were to be discarded the moment you ceased to be of use to them, the moment you ceased to be someone other people would like.

eventually, once it becomes clear that you are Not Like Them and will stay Not Like Them, you will not cease being Not Like Them and become Good and Like Them again, once it is clear that you are a social and financial liability, they decide you are worthless to them. they make it clear that you are no longer really you, but vermin. that you do not deserve to live. that really, it would be better if you just died.

you die that night.

when you die, they do not mourn you. they go on the train and are happy. they are free from the burden of pretending to care about you.

they talk about marriage. one of the people, the one who helped convince the others that you are no longer worthy of life, has fine marriage prospects.

after all, who cares what she does to you? what she thinks of you? (if she thinks of you anymore, that is.) you're an Ungeziefer. you're just vermin.

Teacher, call on me! Hebrew school, Bronx House, Washington Avenue, the Bronx, early to mid-1940s.

The Bronx House was established in 1911 to serve the large number of first-generation Jewish-Americans who had moved to the Bronx to escape the crowded conditions of Manhattan tenements. A Jewish settlement house in what was then New York’s most heavily Jewish borough, its goal was to improve the quality of residents’ lives by offering arts, education, and recreation activities within the context of Jewish communal values. In the 1920s, the programming of the Bronx House reflected the radical nature of many Jewish residents, teaching consumer education and establishing retail cooperatives, hosting union meetings, offering night classes in Yiddish, and featuring many left-wing Yiddish speakers in its lecture series. In the 1930s and 1940s, when this photograph was taken, it operated as a Jewish Community Center. The classroom seen here is decorated with posters supporting immigration and aid to Palestine. Vishniac’s photographs of the Bronx House were probably commissioned by the Jewish Educational Committee (a photograph by Vishniac at the same site appears in one of their pamphlets).

does she?

something about the fact that she is obsessed with, and only applies this to, one conflict. has she ever spoken like this for Ukraine?

people know exactly what she means. they know exactly who she’s accusing and attacking. she never has to say it, that’s the point.

posts like this illustrate it perfectly:

Evyatar David has opened up about his kidnapping and time in Hamas captivity alongside his best friend, Guy Gilboa Dalal.

In this interview, he describes how Hamas terrorists subjected them to extreme starvation for three months before filming the propaganda video that shocked the world.

Evyatar, thank you for having the courage to share your story. We are so grateful to see you home, and we wish you strength, healing and only brighter days ahead 🙏🏽

The “thin, young man” in captivity digging his grave is still a part of who he is, former hostage Evyatar David shared in an interview with Channel 12’s Uvda published on Thursday.

David, accompanied by fellow former hostage and childhood best friend Guy Gilboa-Dalal, recalled the moments of his kidnapping by Hamas on October 7 and his time in captivity.

David and Gilboa-Dalal were abducted from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023. He was held hostage by Hamas until October 13, 2025.

Two friends of theirs, Captain Ron Tzarfati and Idan Haramaty, were murdered at the festival by Hamas.

The four of them had arrived at Nova relatively early, David shared, and “until 6:29 a.m., it was an incredible party. Then intense gunfire began right next to us, and my legs simply took over and started running.”

“It was as though I had no control,” he said, recalling seeing Tzarfati, Haramaty, and Gilboa-Dalal and wondering why they weren’t running.

“The gunfire started getting closer,” David went on. “The only thing you can hear is your own breathing. Some guy inside the bushes screamed a curse at the top of his lungs, and then you hear a burst of gunfire, followed by silence.”

In captivity together

Gilboa-Dalal and David were soon reunited inside a pickup truck used by Hamas.

“It was like we said in captivity,” David said. “‘At least we are in captivity together.’ It was the same thing. We shared the same fate.”

On the evening of October 7, David and Gilboa-Dalal were taken to the first apartment they were held in inside Gaza.

“At first, they seated each of us in a different corner of the room,” David shared, explaining that for two weeks, their captors forbade them from speaking and looking at each other.

David said that all he’d wanted to do was to see that Gilboa-Dalal was all right. “I wanted to see your eyes,” he said.

He explained that they were given little to nothing to eat in captivity, detailing multiple times he and Gilboa-Dalal had fallen into arguments over rationing the minimal food and water they were given.

“We cursed and really screamed,” he said. “It was pure rage, the kind where everything goes black.”

“Do you remember what we used to say? Let’s agree to disagree. It solves everything,” David asked, before adding, “Although I still think you used too much water.”

Filming Hamas's propaganda video

While they were starved the entire time they were in captivity, David explained that the extreme starvation did not start until three months before Hamas decided to film the video of him digging his own grave.

“We had already reached the point where we did not speak much in order to conserve energy, and where we calculated every time we stood up,” David shared in the interview. “When you want to get up and are seconds away from fainting, you have to stand still for about two minutes just to breathe and avoid losing consciousness, because your body has atrophied.

On the day the video was filmed, David said, their captors had told the two of them to strip in order to compare their deteriorating physiques against each other. In the end, David was chosen as the subject of the video.

On the way to the “set,” which was set up in a separate tunnel than the one they were being held in, David recalled passing through a larger room and smelling “the tea they were making and the cakes, and I could hear them chewing.”

“A skeleton was walking beside them while they indulged in cake and tea.”

Upon reaching the tunnel, David said the instructions given to him by his Hamas captors were simple.

“They simply told me, ‘All right, take it. There is a shovel here. Get inside. This is going to be your grave.’ From my perspective, it looked like I was on my way to my death,” he said. “I dug that grave, and doing it was almost physically impossible. I told myself that it was possible that if I really died, I would be lying in that pit.”

'I was alive every second'

After the video was made, Hamas made the decision to separate David and Gilboa-Dalal. The two recalled the fear and panic of those moments, pleading with their captors to remain together.

“We had already been together in captivity for a year and 10 months. We could not survive it separately now,” Gilboa-Dalal said.

David echoed the words: “I burst into tears there. It was a moment... a kind of panic attack. I remember being afraid that I would lose my mind.”

“There is something people sometimes say to me, ‘Blessed is He who revives the dead,’” David said, sharing a conversation he had with clinical psychologist Glenn Cohen, who had accompanied the hostages during debriefings after their return to Israel.

“I cannot stand it,” he said. “I was alive every second. People think captivity is death, but there you want to live even more.”

“One day, I got out. I was released from captivity. But the things I went through there continue to stay with me. Everything people see is a small percentage of what we experience every day.”

Google Mariupol and tell me that's not genocidal.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/popular-kosher-restaurant-in-montreal-destroyed-in-arson-attack

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-newman-apparent-arson-attack-triggers-more-fear-for-a-montreal-jewish-neighbourhood

Early Saturday, Nöam, a kosher Jewish restaurant in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood was completely destroyed by fire; it is being investigated as a possible arson and the motive has not yet been determined. This same neighbourhood is still reeling from an attack that shut down the entire area just over 40 days ago.

I visited the site of the former restaurant, now burnt to cinders. The mood was sombre.

Nöam is only a four-minute walk from the Hilton where, in late June, Seth Hatfield — a 25-year-old Albertan with grand delusions that capitalism and elites (including Zionists) were the cause of his dating woes — unleashed terror on the same community, resulting in the deaths of Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, a Muslim Montreal police officer, and a Jewish bystander, Michel Mizrahi.

In the short walk between the two locations, I noticed that a large sign memorializing both men lost to the Côte-des-Neiges community had been erected by the Jewish Community Council. As is customary in the Jewish community, it reads: “May their memories be a blessing.”

Upon arrival at Nöam, I noticed a chemical smell, likely an accelerant of some kind. The building Nöam was in also housed another business, which I was told was untouched by the fire.

The Liberal MP for Mount Royal, Anthony Housefather, was on scene when I arrived. I asked him to say a few words about what he thought was happening.

In a recorded interview, he told me that the owners had just put a lot of money into renovations for the restaurant, and called it a “horrific tragedy” for the owners and their customers as well as the entire community.

Housefather told me, “It was clearly an arson attack,” based on the footage he’d seen, and that now the police need to investigate the motive. Housefather said that he also contacted the minister of public safety, Gary Anandasangaree, who he said was in touch with his local counterparts in the area.

Housefather told me that “Montreal police checked out all the cameras in the area,” and that the owners would be adding their footage later Saturday, after Shabbat. Housefather told me, “hopefully, there’ll be very clear footage of the guy who did this, and he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

I spoke to the owner of the building, who shared a video with the Post, which appeared to be a recording of surveillance video showing an individual running.

The mayor of the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough, Stéphanie Valenzuela, posted a message to her Instagram account saying she was concerned about recent incidents in the area, and that members of the community should continue to look out for one another.

It doesn’t mention this is in her message, but, in addition to this apparent arson, early on Friday gunshots were fired in the neighbourhood at around 2:50 a.m. A house on Méridian Ave. near Ponsard Ave. was struck by gunfire. Reportedly, someone was seen at the residence before fleeing the scene.

Let’s hope that, if the Nöam fire was, indeed, an arson, that the courts do not entertain the kind of unbelievable excuse that admitted Montreal arsonist Mohamed Ilyess Akodad gave the court here, that he was unaware that the institution he was setting fire to was a synagogue.

The Jewish community in Montreal will find out whether the judge believed Akodad’s fantastical story, and just how seriously the justice system here takes attacks on the Jewish community when court reconvenes for his sentencing on Sept. 10