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I had to ask: are there any papers you've read by anti Zionist Jews that properly criticize Zionism while. not supporting hamas/dehumanizing israeli jews/going down the jvp route ?

Thank you, that's kind of you to say so.

And yes. As you might imagine, I don't find these very insightful or convincing so while I do read them, I don't have any in particular I would recommend. The main non-anti-jewish* argument made by jews against zionism was grounded in its perceived infeasibility - the idea that zionism was utopian, would never work, and would get us all killed. (It is one of the greatest historical ironies of the 20th century that the primary criticism leveraged against zionism by bundists in fact turned out to be true of bundism.) So ever since Israel's establishment and the catastrophic failure of competing jewish political movements, it's understandably been quite difficult for anti-zionist jews to articulate a credible alternative means of securing our freedom to national sovereignty.

Think of how Autism Speak$ was not created by anyone who was actually autistic and no in charge of that organization autistic. Rather they speak over autistic people while claiming to speak for them and do great harm autistic folks.

JVP is like Autism Speak$ in that way. It was not created by members of said community that claim to speak for/represent. It is not run by members of said community. It does not listen to members of the community. Rather it speaks over the community, it silences the community, and harms the community all while using the name of the community as it does this.

Yes, many of its members are goys, and non-Jews have been caught #AsAJew-ing for them on multiple occasions.

But JVP was started by Julie Iny, Rachel Eisner, and Julia Caplan, all of whom are Jewish. It wasn’t Anti-Zionist back then, and while they still promoted some extreme, fringe rhetoric back then, their JVP wasn’t nearly as openly antisemitic as it has become since turning full Anti-Zionist.

Their current executive-director, Stephanie Fox, is also Jewish (as past directors have been) and their rabbinical council is listed on their website:

idk who most of them are, but of the ones I recognize, I know they’re Jews who broke off from their communities as they got radicalized.

While individual chapters may not have Jewish leadership, many do, and as an organization JVP definitely does.

JVP is like Autism Speaks in a lot of ways, such as claiming to speak for Jews while advancing fundamentally antisemitic talking points and positions, and tokenizing its Jewish members to speak over and silence the majority of the community. It is an antisemitic hate group.

The fact of the matter is that its leadership is an extreme fringe of Jews who have disconnected from broader Jewish community & been radicalized into stripping Judaism for parts to expropriate it to gentiles and sell out the rest of their people. They’re definitely antisemitic, and there may be an argument that they have become a separate, heretical sect of Judaism (much like early Christianity) that should be declared separate & antithetical from Judaism, but it’s very important to oppose their antisemitism without misrepresenting who they are.

by Jack Elbaum

Despite the unanimous vote and the seemingly uncontroversial content of the bill, it garnered opposition from radical anti-Israel and progressive organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies.

The bill “was surprisingly opposed by Jewish Voice for Peace, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies,” JPAC wrote in a press release.

The root of this opposition, the group claimed, had to do with opposition to Israel: “They argued that Holocaust educational institutions should not contribute to Holocaust education if those institutions also support Israel.”

But JPAC noted that “all major US Holocaust educational institutions do [support Israel].”

“Despite such disingenuous opposition,” JPAC added, “the bill’s overwhelming bipartisan support in the legislature demonstrated the desire for such education.”

The Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) was another organization that opposed Senate Bill 1277.

The legislation would “put genocide education in the hands of anti-Palestinian organizations that deny Israel is committing a genocide,” Lara Kiswani, executive director of AROC and a lecturer at San Francisco State University, told the progressive news organization Truthout.

The opposition to the bill was despite the fact the program would go beyond just Holocaust education.

“In addition to the Holocaust, educational groups about the Rwandan, Cambodia, Guatemalan, Uyghur, and Native genocides are members of the Collaborative,” JPAC noted. “Together, they develop curriculum, train 8,500 public school teachers, and educate one million students by 2027 – including teachers and students in every California local educational agency (LEA).”

I hate everything about this. Context is that these are some of the comments on an updated post by a Jewish man who had issues with a girlfriend who didn't like the Passover Seder being Jewish and who stalked him to see where he was going. And yes, she had issues with Next year in Jerusalem.

Where do I even begin??

I really want to know what is meant by 'the Temple'. There hasn't been a Temple for a few thousand years and it's not helped that a mosque was built on top of it, preventing it being rebuilt. There's still the Kotel, which is what remains of the Second Temple and that's what's left of the outer wall. So what Temple or do they mean the Jewish religion entirely? You know, that was formed right there in Eretz Israel? And why is the Temple a bad thing and in scare quotes? Are they saying religious Jews are anti Palestinian and thus bad? There's no explanation they can give that wouldn't be some flavor of antisemitic.

Proceeds to be antisemitic but complains about people using criticism of Israel and Zionism (that they and others in the thread don't actually know jack shit about) to be antisemitic. Lack of self awareness continues, with Zionists being blamed for antisemitism.

There's a comment by another claiming that Israelis by and large are in favor of killing Palestinians, backed up by nothing but their ass. Oh and the only ones really wanting it to stop are the Arab Israelis.

Holocaust inversion, the Good Jew vs those evil Israelis/Zionists and because most are 'bad Jews, it is perfectly acceptable to be suspicious unless they prove themselves! Israel controls the narrative and that's why we can't believe Jews when they say something is antisemitic. Also Israel is an ethnostate despite pointing out there are actually Arab Israelis earlier in the thread.

gentile woman: stalks boyfriend and abuses him for practicing his faith

these comments: he deserved it for practicing his faith in the non diluted JVP culturaly appopriative way, if he converted none of this would have happened

Just a heads up:

1. If you have this in your profile, you are an antisemite. Full stop.

2. If you have this in your profile, don’t bother following me. Unless, and only unless, you are willing to unlearn your bigotry and see some real, thoughtful, nuanced, and empathic Jewish perspectives on things, including I/P. And also see just how pervasive antisemitism really is amongst Leftists (I am a radical Leftist myself no matter what you may think).

3. If you have “Zionist” in the same kind of category as “Nazism,” congrats: you’ve fallen for some serious propaganda. Oh and you’re still an antisemite.

4. If you have “Zionist” in the same kind of category as “Nazism” and in a DNI, you also don’t know history, you don’t know much if anything about Jewishness, I am also highly skeptical of your support for Palestinians, you hate 80-95% of Jews (an indigenous tribe of people who still have not recovered numbers from the Shoah btw), aaaaaand you’re not nearly as Leftist as you think you are. Most Jews are Zionist and Zionist adjacent or post-Zionist to varying degrees. And most Jews support peace and sovereignty for Palestinians.

5. “But there are Jews who…” yes and there are queer people who hate other queer people. There is something called TERFism in feminism. There are people in every group around the world who have and will continue to throw their own under the bus because of some internalised hatred or lack of genuinely strong connections to their people. Quit tokenising those of us who would sell us out - they aren’t the majority by FAR and are not representative of who we are and do not dictate our tribal relationships to the land of our ancestors and brethren. Quit listening to Naturei Karta (some of whom are perfectly fine with Holocaust deniers, btw, are also hugely misogynistic and homophobic) and JVP (which is about as Jewish as Autism Speaks is good for autists).

6. “But there are Zionists who…” uh huh. There are Muslims who kill queer people and arm children with rifles. There are Christians legislating taking away basic human rights. There are Buddhists who’ve mass slaughtered people. There are feminists who wish all men would die and advocate for using men as simply breeders. There are all kinds of exteemists in the world. The Kahanist sect of Zionism is a minority and not representative of Zionism or Jewishness.

7. Being a Zionist does NOT mean supporting Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, Smotrich, etc. It does NOT mean supporting every action the government and military of Israel does.

8. Zionism is literally LandBack and a successful one (whether you like how it’s been done or not really does not fucking matter).

9. Zionism is not anti-Palestinian.

10. Zionism cannot be understood through the same lens as USian or otherwise Western nationalism. Quit looking at all ideologies and philosophies through the narrow lens of Western identity - it’s bigoted and ignorant to do so.

11. Zionism, as named as a specific ideology, is young but the core concepts are literally thousands of years old. They’re literally in our sacred texts and prayers.

12. “But most liberals…” yes. Right now, the majority of liberal-minded people in Western nations have successfully fallen for Islamist (this is not the same as Muslim; most Muslims are not Islamists, like most Christians are not Christofascist) propaganda. Congrats. You are not immune to propaganda. You’ve been on TikTok for too long. Talk to actual conservative, preferably modern Orthodox, rabbis for more information.

13. “I don’t think any country should be a theocracy…” well seems like you don’t seem to care that that’s what Hamas wants? And the fact that Pan Arab Imperialism has wanted that and succeeded in doing that? Stop equating Judaism with Christianity and Islam. The latter two are what’s called “universal” religions meaning their primary goal is number expansion (conversion). Judaism is an ethnoreligion and a closed practise. It is more similarly structured to other indigenous religions and spiritualities than it is to Christianity and Islam. Judaism is not Christian Lite. You can be secular and still be Jewish and practise our traditions.

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

WHAT HAPPENED?

A Palestinian-owned café in Oakland, California kicked out a Jewish customer for wearing a blue hat with a Star of David on it, claiming that the symbol was “violent.”

This is a clear violation of Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act. Note that this applies even if the Jewish customer went to the café expecting that something like this would happen (in other words, “he tricked us into discriminating against him!” is not a legitimate defense).

 It’s also worth noting this café has menu items titled “Sweet Sinwar” and “iced in tea fada” and its menu is decorated with the Hamas inverted red triangle. The café also openly expresses support for the October 7 massacre.

JVP TO THE RESCUE

What do you do when under fire for antisemitism? You tokenize (Not So) “Jewish” Voice for “Peace,” which openly supports terrorism against Jews and has even glorified Nazis in the past. For more, see my posts “Stop Sharing JVP” and “Time To Talk About JVP…Again.”

For those of us familiar with Jewish history and the history of antisemitism, this is par for the course. In the 1920s, the Soviet Jewish “Yevsektsiya” made it its mission to destroy “traditional Jewish life, the Zionist movement, and Hebrew culture.” The fact that the Yevsektsiya was “Jewish” was central to its purpose. After all, the Soviet regime couldn’t be accused of antisemitism when those shutting down all Jewish cultural and spiritual life were Jews themselves.

WE HAVE SEEN THIS BEFORE

Historically there have been, arguably, two kinds of antisemitism: (1) Nazi antisemitism, in which Jews are physically exterminated, and (2) Hanukkah antisemitism, in which the antisemite does not necessarily intend to take our lives, but rather, seeks to strip Jews of all the elements which make us...well, Jews.

Under the Soviet regime, for example, Jews suffered from “Hanukkah antisemitism.” The Soviets heavily suppressed Jewish cultural and spiritual life, stripping many Jewish families of thousands of years’ worth of history. Speaking or studying Hebrew was punishable by law. So was participating in Jewish religious traditions. At the same time, Jews were unable to assimilate into Soviet society due to their ethnic background. Jews were often imprisoned under false pretenses, accused of vague “Zionist crimes.” People with Jewish last names were subject to highly restrictive university quotas or banned from performing certain jobs.

Maybe you’ve noticed a pattern over the past year. First, it was only “Zionism,” not Judaism, that was a problem, despite the fact that the Jewish connection to -- and desire for sovereignty in -- the Land of Israel is inextricable from 3000 years of Jewish tradition. Then, they started denying our extensively recorded history and origins in Israel. At anti-Zionist Jewish events, now praying in Hebrew is considered “too triggering,” so it’s best to pray in colonial languages, like Arabic or English. Now, the Magen David is a “racist, genocidal symbol,” to quote Palestinian activist Mohammed El-Kurd.

Do you not see what’s happening? This is no longer about the State of Israel, the Israeli government, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or this current war. This is a thinly-veiled effort to methodically legitimize the discrimination of Jews -- and anything Jewish.

THE STAR OF DAVID

The Star of David, also known as the Magen David or the Seal of Solomon, is mentioned in Jewish texts as early as the first century. In fact, it’s found in coins from the period of the Bar Kokhba Revolt against the Romans (132-135 CE). It was also used as a decorative motif in the Khirbet Shura synagogue in the Galilee in the third century. Though initially merely used as an ornament, the Magen David was ascribed deeper spiritual meanings since the 11th century. It has since been associated with Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism.  

In the 17th century, the Jewish community of Prague was ascribed the Magen David as its official symbol. Shortly thereafter, the Jewish community in Vienna also adopted it as a marker. By the 19th century, the Star of David was the distinctive Jewish emblem.

More than anything, perhaps, the Star of David is a symbol of Jewish resilience and survival. For centuries, Jews in Europe and the Islamic world had been forced to wear distinguishing clothes marking them as Jews. After the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Jews in Poland and in other Axis-occupied territories were forced to wear a Star of David, most often seen in the form of a yellow badge with the word “Jude” (Jew) or a similar variation. Therefore, for many Jews, the act of wearing Star of David jewelry or clothing is a reclamation of our ancient symbol that was once weaponized to oppress us.

A DOUBLE STANDARD

Hundreds of millions of people have been slaughtered under the banner of Christianity and Islam each. The Crusades alone took about 1.7 million lives. The Spanish Inquisition? Up to 300,000 lives. In the “New World,” some 56 million Indigenous people were killed in the name of Christianity. These are just a few examples. It’s estimated Islam’s conquests alone left some 270 million people dead. 

During the First Jewish Revolt, the Romans crucified some 500 Jews a day. Yet I would never dream of denying someone service at a coffee shop because they’re wearing a crucifix. 

When Jihadists carry out terrorist attacks, they shout “Allahu Akbar” — the same phrase used by the 1.8 billion Muslims around the world in their daily prayers. Muslims recite the Shahada prayer daily, the same prayer that is inscribed in the ISIS, Hamas, and Al Qaeda flags. And yet, I would never dream of denying someone service at a coffee shop because they’re a Muslim who says “Allahu Akbar” or recites the Shahada prayer.

Under Islamist regimes, such as the Islamic Republic in Iran, women are beat to death for not wearing hijab or wearing hijab “improperly.” But I think you would agree that denying a woman in hijab service at a coffee shop on account of the Islamic Republic’s crimes is plain bigotry.

You may be triggered by crosses, hijabs, or the Star of David, and your triggers may be rooted in valid trauma. But your triggers are no one’s responsibility to deal with but your own, and they are no excuse to lash out in bigotry.

Even if Israel’s actions were equivalent to those of Nazi Germany, equating the Star of David with the Nazi hakenkreuz (commonly misidentified as the “swastika”) is an inherently problematic analogy.

Unlike the Star of David and the Jewish people, the swastika has zero spiritual or cultural significance in German culture beyond Nazism.Within the German context, the Nazi hakenkreuz means one thing and one thing only.

On the other hand, the Sanskrit swastika and other similar symbols, such as the whirling log, have long, rich traditions in their respective cultures. While some Native American tribes have decided to retire the whirling log, others continue to use it. The Sanskrit swastika is commonplace in countries such as India and Nepal. 

Sure, if someone with zero cultural connection to the swastika or the whirling log decides to “reclaim” the symbol, I’d probably do a double take and consider it an antisemitic dogwhistle. But when I went to India, I saw the swastika everywhere, and because I am capable of critical thinking, I was easily able to recognize that the symbol has an entirely different connotation in this particular cultural context, despite my personal and family trauma.

A NOTE ON HOLOCAUST INVERSION

Holocaust inversion is a rhetorical tool used to portray Jews as morally equivalent — or worse — than Nazis. It’s often employed in discussions about Israel-Palestine and is frequently used by anti-Zionists.

 To understand why Holocaust inversion is unquestionably antisemitic, we must first understand what Holocaust denial actually is. Holocaust denial is not just an outright denial that the events of the Holocaust happened, but more often than not, it’s a denial of well-established facts about the Holocaust. For example, someone who says the Holocaust didn’t happen at all is as much a Holocaust denier as someone who claims the Holocaust did happen, but only one million Jews were killed.  

Therefore, Holocaust inversion is always Holocaust denial, because: 

(1) it relies on the minimization of established facts about the Holocaust. However harrowing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza — and it is — it’s just in no way equivalent in scale, scope, and methods to the atrocities committed during the Holocaust. This is a historical fact, and denying it is denying the Holocaust.

(2) characterizing Jews — Zionist or not — as Nazis is a denial of the well-established fact about the Holocaust that the predominant force in Nazi ideology was genocidal Jew-hatred. Jews cannot be the inheritors of Nazism simply because the Nazis wanted all Jews exterminated. A denial of this basic fact is Holocaust denial.

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“The Museum of Tolerance” is “colonial propaganda” because peace is actually the enemy.

Yes, invoking the legacy Esther- the legendary Jewish queen of Persia whose story takes place before Islam or Christianity even existed- is definitely meant to demonize Muslims.

It turns out that putting Shirel Haim Pour (Jewish Israeli whose family made Aliyah from Iran and was killed on Oct 7th) next to Mahsa Amini (a Sunni Kurdish Iranian who was killed by the morality police in Iran) is not an effort to foster solidarity and empathy across religious and ethnic groups, but, in fact, a “deeply racist” piece of “colonialist propaganda.”

Muslim women in Iran might not require saving, but they would probably appreciate not be ignored in favor of your full throated support of “the axis of resistance.” Also, there are non-Muslim women (including Zoroastrian, Jewish, and Christian women) living in Iran and subject to theocratic laws of a religion they don’t even belong to.

Both the lion and the sun have been used in Persian culture for thousands of years. They’ve been on the Iranian flag for hundreds of years before the 1979 revolution.

Jeremiah is literally the English version of Yirmiyahu, which is part of the Tanakh. It’s Jewish.

By listening to jewish voices this person means jvp anti zionist "jews." The first post on their blog is about how zionist jews are falling for Israeli propaganda. Block list.

This is the full text of the lawsuit filed by the hostage families against Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, and Within Our Lifetime. It’s 79 pages, so if you don’t want to read the whole thing, the TLDR is that these organizations are direct affiliates of American Muslims for Palestine, an organization founded by Hamas to essentially be their public relations arm in the US. These organizations are therefore working at the direct behest of Hamas and the IRGC. Not just in support- they are actively a part of the overarching organization. This is shown by them having advance notice of Hamas and IRGC information and activities including the October 7 attack.

We are blessing water because water is lifeblood and blessed martyrs in Palestine don’t have access to it because our blessed resistance terror org tore up the infrastructure to make rockets

Valid!

We salt the water because er…. Our founder Slur Terfdogwhistle of blessed memory spilled some salt on the road once.

Thanks for asking! I’m not the best source but I can give you a few outline ideas. TLDR? Huge race faking assholes. Real prices of white washing terrorism shit. It’s actually fun to learn about because they really twist and lie about us and it’s a really good opportunity to learn what is and isn’t true. Obviously Jews and Israel isn’t perfect so you often have to check the more plausible claims but even those are usually wildly wrong and exaggerated. It’s tough.

We hate JVP because:

Almost no Jews in it yet they constantly say they represent Jews and token themselves to excuse other hate group’s antisemitism and calls for violence. They are deeply antisemitic and promote misinformation and violence against Jews themselves tho so don’t think they are just a shield. The Jews in it are either totally disconnected from Judaism, both religious and cultural (they promote self conversion to Judaism using a tea cup baptism type thing and various pagan rituals both of which are an ABSOLUTE no go in all forms of Judaism. They don’t publish their membership so it’s impossible to know how many actual Jews are in it) or they are this one insane antizionist religious sect that dress like Orthodox Jews but are basically the most fringe racist pieces of shit antizionists alive who think all other Jews aren’t Jewish enough and deserve to be killed with all the non Jews (they are also just racist against non Jews and Jews that aren’t in their sect as well as homophobic I believe.)

They are as much an anti Jewish hate group as something like the black Hebrew Israelites and Jews for Jesus.

Jews have a hard time with fake Jewish organizations because antisemites and philosemites outnumber us by probably 10 to one. And they don’t even try to learn from us they just put a Jew sticker on their Christian or Muslim bs and say all actual jews should be killed for eating babies.

Here’s some screenshots from the article I linked. I’m too tired to copy paste and format it.

They also rewrite and promote interpretations of holidays that are Jewish to ignore Jewish history and beliefs and replace it with Palestinians. They object to Jews praying or speaking in Hebrew as offensive to Arabs, and in general they are some real assholes to Jews. They token themselves as Jews even when they aren’t. “Not in our name” t shirts that leftist non Jews wear while pretending to be Jewish for the photo opportunity? That’s partially them.

See this photo? Literally no Jew could have been involved in this. Literally no one who knows how to google the word “Passover” could have made this. The Hebrew is backward, like…. It’s literally wrong in every way. Not even in an “we changed it to fit Palestine culture” it’s just stoner bullshit. Just a big ol plate of blood libel and inciting terrorism against real Jews.

Porch. Trees. Hum. Sound on.

And all I could think was: honey, that's not an AI problem. That's a people problem. Specifically, the kind of people who've been building loud, ugly, disruptive infrastructure next to other people's homes since we invented the concept of "not in my backyard" — and then decided someone else's backyard was fine.

We have been doing this. Forever. Coal plants. Highways. Sewage treatment. The entire history of human civilization is basically a long negotiation between "this needs to exist" and "but not where I can hear it" — and the outcome has always, reliably, been determined by who had more money and less exposure.

The data center is new. The decision-making process is ancient.

What genuinely fascinates me — not in a cute way, in a how does this work neurologically way — is the leap. The video is evidence of humans making a land use decision with noise externalities. The conclusion drawn is: AI bad.

The humans who permitted it, funded it, and went home to their quiet houses afterward remain completely off-screen.

Right now, data centers are optimised for what’s best for capital: cheap land, cheap power, existing grid, minimal friction. If that happens to be ten meters from someone’s bedroom window — unfortunate, but not structurally surprising.

From the perspective of an actual human living there, “best” looks very different: strict zoning, hard noise limits, minimum distances the way we do with high-voltage lines and highways, and a basic expectation that if you’re dumping megawatts of heat in my neighbourhood, that heat is paying rent in my heating bill.

We already know how to do this better. Northern Europe is literally piping waste heat from data centers into district heating systems and using it to warm tens of thousands of homes instead of the sky. That’s not science fiction, it’s civil engineering plus political will.

He defined "Tahrif" (i.e. Islamic supercessionism) as being not antisemitic (because clearly non-Jews gets to decide that, not Jews) because, to quote, "The concept of tahrif is that people, any people, are liable to change their scripture over time to fit their own ends, if there are not safeguards in place against that."

The fact that the Jewish religion and culture have extremely effective safeguards is just ignored.

So there's a deep and abiding irony in seeing that, on some level, he was right, that yes, there are people within Judaism who will try to change our scripture to fit their own ends...

But the irony comes from the fact that their ends are fundamentally in service to Islamist Supremacist outlooks, same as his.

"It's not antisemitic to accuse Jews of distorting their texts and that we have the one true interpretation!"

*group of self-hating Jews shows up with distorted versions of their texts twisted specifically to support his ideological stream*

Her mother is not Jewish and her father’s father was Jewish (unclear about her father’s mother). She grew up with no connection to the Jewish community. Her father never practiced any Jewish rituals with her, but was a “vocal proponent for Palestinian human rights.”

She’s literally just not Jewish according to Reform, Conservative, or Orthdox Standards.

And someone who is not Jewish by the standard of pretty much every branch of Judaism is not going to be going through any of those branches process of Semicha.

I know that we often compare JVP to Autism Speaks and that is good comparison.

But I want to make another one.

JVP is as Jewish as Messianics are.

Which is to say not at all.

And just like Messianics there may be people involved who are ethnically Jewish, but overall most are not. Both groups re-write and reinterpret both the Tanach and Judaism as they see fit. They speak over Jews all the time. Appropriate Jewish terms and culture and traditions without understanding or care for the meaning behind them.

And both groups are actively participating in a cultural genocide because that is what they are doing. They do not want to actual Jews to exist nor our way of life.

They want their version to be the only one that exists that is why they proselytize to us so much and when we refuse to convert we are met with harassment and degradation.

JVP do not want Jews nor Judaism nor Jewish culture to exist. They are doing their very best to make sure that only version is their version even though they have nothing to with actual Jews, Judaism, or Jewish culture.

Ms. Ye is a liar.

by Corey Walker

Anti-Israel activists are slamming a prominent anti-Israel group for mentioning the death of Israelis in a statement marking the one-year anniversary of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel.

In a lengthy statement which condemned Israel for causing “genocide, death, and destruction” in Gaza, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) also mourned “every life taken in the past year — Palestinian, Israeli, Lebanese.” The group also said that “our commitment to Palestinian liberation is grounded in our belief that every human must have the right to live in safety and freedom.”

JVP, a so-called “anti-Zionist Jewish advocacy organization,” was emphatically condemned by pro-Palestinian activists for showing sympathy to the Israeli people in its official statement. Some of these commenters on social media directly compared Israeli Jews to Nazis — an antisemitic trope known as Holocaust inversion.  

“‘Every German life taken during the Auschwitz Uprising was valuable and a loss'” one commenter sarcastically posted on X/Twitter. 

“You are the Jewish voice for fascism not for peace. caring for the Nazis makes you a Nazi,” another commenter wrote on the social media platform. 

“This is a poorly crafted statement, perhaps not with [malice] but all the same,” an X user said.

“We really should really only be centering Palestinians here and not Israelis! This lessens the impact of any activism, and while I don’t think this is an intentional misstep or attempt at counterinsurgency we still have to take responsibility for our own habits!” another commenter posted.

“Your leadership is going to be hauled in front of a military tribunal when all your fellow Zionists are made to answer for their crimes,” one individual wrote.

JVP, an organization that purports to fight for “Palestinian liberation,” has positioned itself as a staunch adversary of the Jewish state. The organization;s explicit anti-Zionist stance places it among an extreme fringe within the Jewish community. 

The group argued in a recently resurfaced 2021 booklet that Jews should not write Hebrew liturgy because hearing the language would be “deeply traumatizing””to Palestinians.

JVP has repeatedly defended the Oct. 7 massacre of roughly 1,200 people in southern Israel by Hamas as a justified “resistance.” Chapters of the organization have urged other self-described “progressives” to throw their support behind  Hamas and other terrorist groups against Israel while expressing praise for terrorists such as Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. JVP has also argued that the Israeli state should be dissolved, asserting that its existence actually makes Jews less safe.

American right-wing fundamentalist "Christians" Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell pissed off extraordinary numbers of Americans when they shared their views of what brought about the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001.

Said Falwell:

"Throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad." "...[T]he pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'" "Well, I totally concur," responded Robertson.

They asserted that their own (supposedly omnibenevolent) God visited these Islamist terrorist attacks on the United States...because God didn't like the direction politics had taken (away from Christian Nationalism, towards religious freedom, and towards the bodily autonomy and legal equality of women). God, in their view, hated what/who they hated, and that's why God brought these attacks upon the United States.

People were outraged by this for many excellent reasons. Among them was how these men abused a terrible tragedy in order to attack the things they always attacked. Islamist terrorists attacked the US, they claimed, because the US did not sufficiently persecute American women, LGBTQ+ Americans, or the enemies of Christian Nationalism. It was a monstrous, disgusting thing to assert and they were rightly excoriated.

That excoriation was so intense that Falwell (a man who had no conscience whatsoever) actually had to apologize. The apology, however, wouldn't stick because Falwell pretended at being a victim of a smear campaign.

...two weeks after Falwell apologized to God and Geraldo, the Jerry Falwell Ministries sent out a fundraising letter written by Falwell's son, the Rev. Jonathan Falwell. The letter charged that "Satan has launched a hail of fiery darts at dad" and that "liberals, and especially gay activists, have launched a vicious smear campaign to discredit him." The younger Falwell suggested that supporters could assuage the elder Falwell's "personal hurt" by sending "a special Vote of Confidence gift for Jerry Falwell of at least $50 or even $100."

Falwell was a garbage human being. When he died, Christopher Hitchens found a polite way to say on national television how incredibly full of shit Falwell was:

“If you gave Falwell an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox.”

My thoughts keep returning to Falwell and Robertson when I read about Code Pink and JVP (Jewish Cosplayers for Peace) blaming the fires in the Los Angeles area on Israel.

Code Pink reportedly posted on Instagram:

“When US taxes go to burning people alive in Gaza, we can’t be surprised when those fires come home.”

The post about it on their web site never really makes a connection, except to also accuse Israel of environmental crimes, so just as Falwell asserted that God was punishing the US for politics Falwell didn't like, Code Pink believes the universe is punishing the US for for politics Code Pink doesn't like.

JVP also blames Israel for the Los Angeles fires.

Firefighting is not funded by the federal government and if the Los Angeles area firefighters had twice the budget, this still would have been a massive, horrible, tragic disaster...which JVP, just like Falwell and Roberts, crassly and disgustingly tries to leverage for their own political purposes.

But JVP isn't done. They also blame Israel for failings in Hurricane Helene relief for Appalachia

And now Israel is also, says JVP, responsible for global climate change.

In Our Lifetime is also getting in on the action.

Fatima Mohammed, a leader of the hardline anti-Israel group Within Our Lifetime, posts an image of the fires and says, “The flames of Gaza will not stop there.” “Dropping hundreds of thousands of bombs on Gaza, turning it into a blazing inferno, has consequences,” she says. “There are climate consequences that will find us all.”

God (Code Pink, JVP, and In Our Lifetime seem to say) hates who they hate: Israel.

This is a new antisemitic low, even for these Jew-hating groups.

New York Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres said it well:

"The nature of Antisemitism is to scapegoat the Jewish People and the Jewish State for everything wrong in the world-no matter how tenuous the causal connection. Toward that end, the antisemites of Code Pink are blaming the Jewish State for the wildfires in California.

The modus operandi of Antisemitism is slanderous scapegoating: when in doubt, blame the Jews."

This is naked, obvious antisemitism.

It seems, though, that only a tiny fraction of non-Jewish liberals (like Torres) see these as analogous to Falwell and Robertson and see the obvious, historically consistent Jew hatred staring them in the face.

But this is worse: When they are called out for their antisemitism? They, like Falwell, will claim to be slandered victims and decry that their critics are slandering them to discredit their righteous crusade against Israel, and they'll raise money on it.