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Getting rid of your racist, raving antisemite officials and professors at Chapman would make Jewish students safe, though.
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In 2006, Lorenzo Veracini published Israel and Settler Society, opening with a striking claim: we must stop interpreting the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as a territorial or religious dispute and instead see it as a unilateral settler-colonial situation. Veracini leaned heavily on the 2001 Durban conference at the United Nations—an event that reintroduced Soviet antizionist tropes of “Zionism is racism” into the global left after the relative hiatus of the Oslo years. The very need for Veracini to argue the claim so explicitly shows that, even then, the settler-colonial framing was not mainstream.
The Journal of Genocide Research became the institutional hub of this ideological convergence, incubating a cohort of genocide-libel theorists—Martin Shaw, Omer Bartov, Raz Segal, Amos Goldberg, Dirk Moses, and others—who would rise to prominence after October 7, often citing or collaborating with U.N official Francesca Albanese, whose work represents the full application of this logic within the U.N.’s institutionalized system of antizionist racism.
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Reminder:
COGAT approved 100,000 pallet requests submitted by organizations, of winter-related items, shelter equipment, and sanitation supplies.
All routes and crossings are open and available. These supplies are ready and waiting for weeks for immediate coordination by the relevant organizations so they can enter Gaza.
Over the past three months, COGAT approved 100,000 pallet requests submitted by organizations, of winter-related items, shelter equipment, and sanitation supplies.
All routes and crossings are open and available. These supplies are ready and waiting for weeks for immediate coordination by the relevant organizations so they can enter Gaza.
All the organizations need to do is coordinate, we are here to facilitate.
Together with our partners at the CMCC and across the international community, we are facilitating a humanitarian effort that must now be matched with timely action by the organizations.
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Funny story: a Jewish woman made a massive endowment to U of Washington to create a chair for Jewish studies. And, sure enough, the professor they hired turned out to hate Israel, etc.
To their credit, UW offered to refund her the money once they confirmed there was no way to remove the newly chaired professor.
That money, once refunded, wound up becoming a sizable donation to @StandWithUs, an amazing organization dedicated to dialog and the truth about Israel.
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Nasty antizionist students at an @nusuk event walked out when the leadership said the Union was neither Zionist nor antizionist. It’s never enough for them. Appeasement doesn’t work with hateful extremists. Let them walk and never come back.
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Kligler translated instructions into Arabic and his team went village to village to eradicate malaria from Arab towns. 1925 League of Nations report commended them as "benefactors not only to the Palestinian population but to the world as a whole."
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That was Arab reaction to the Nov. 29, 1947 UNGA vote to partitionPalestine into Arab and Jewish states. Thick lines are the borders. Essentially the former malaria stricken land plus the Negev stone desert. Arab reaction? Read here. Threat of Mongolian massacre.
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Re-posting my Nov 29 discussion on the connection between Zionist eradication of malaria and the UN Partition proposal map. It's a great visual to demonstrate the obsession of Palestinianism - prioritizing the Jews having nothing, over attaining something for the Arabs.
Still.
One of the biggest and lesser known stories of Nov 29 is that the lands allocated to a Jewish state (two color map) were essentially those the Zionists reclaimed from malaria through land purchase, science and education (the two-tone blue map is the incidents of malaria and the middle map shows Jewish land ownership of those lands reclaimed from malaria).
Moreover, the sudden and extremely rapid increase of the Arab population in the 1920’s and 1930’s in this barely populated backwater region (this was the highest population increase rate in the world in 1931/2) was only in part due to immigration spurred by Zionist development of the land. The major share of the massive Arab population increase was thanks to Malaria eradication, which was the work of the Galician born famed microbiologist and ardent Zionist Dr. Israel Kligler (credit to the great historical work of Anton Alexander).
With this knowledge it remains even a greater tragedy that the now much more numerous Arabs of the land directed their efforts towards brutally fighting Zionism rather than choosing to live side by side with an emerging Jewish state. More than a year after the Oct 7 massacre we mark once more the Nov 29 moment when the Jews said yes to the UNGA plan of partition (having prioritized having a state, even if tiny and mostly desert and lands reclaimed from malaria and no Zion and no Judea) and the Arabs said no and proceeded to wage a brutal war to the present day (having prioritized - still - the goal of the Jews not having a state at all and of any size).
(Note on map titles: for twenty centuries, before a campaign of denial was underway, it was well understood that the name “Palestine” merely denoted the Roman/Christian/Colonial/European name for the geographic region where the Land of Israel was and was therefore deeply associated with Jews and the their continuous connection to the land.
Hence the League of Nation in establishing the mandate recognized the “historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine" as the "grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country” and which is why the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra of Jewish musicians became the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra…)
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Beinart and his antizionist cohort have constructed an entire political vision on the negation of the very principles they insist define them. They ask the Jews to surrender their right to self-determination in favor of a single state that will, by every historical and sociological measure, become a Muslim-majority polity—and if that polity drifts, as all available evidence suggests it will, toward Islamic governance rather than liberal democracy, then this is simply the price of their theory. The liberal conscience, it turns out, can tolerate quite a lot of illiberalism when the subject is Palestine. Women’s rights, the rights of religious and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ rights—all of it becomes negotiable, dispensable, sacrificed on the altar of a grand symbol. “Palestine,” in this worldview, is the supreme moral abstraction, and everything else can be quietly escorted offstage in the name of the cause.
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Jewish organizations continue to underestimate the scale and coherence of the antizionist hate movement—and continue to refuse to name it. But unless we build a contemporary, attuned, and targeted campaign against antizionism now, the consequences will be severe. We are dealing with a serious, organized, and increasingly emboldened fascist formation.
It is understandable that many remain frozen by the trauma of October 7th and by the collapsing usefulness of the post-Holocaust antisemitism paradigm—the belief that the memory of the Shoah would offer permanent moral protection. But that paradigm has broken down. It no longer describes the reality we are living.
Legacy organizations need to listen to younger Jews who actually know left-academic and activist spaces—Jews who have neither been captured by antizionism nor silenced by demoralization. They understand the ideological terrain, the institutional capture, and the speed with which this movement spreads.
We have no time to lose. The failure to name antizionism as such is no longer a strategic miscalculation; it is a dereliction of responsibility. Only by confronting it directly, as a contemporary and systemic form of anti-Jewish hate, can we act before the window for effective response closes.
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STOP comparing Afghan women in burqas with Christian nuns.
1- Nuns do not get beaten, jailed, or killed if they remove their veil.
2-Their commitment applies only to themselves not to every woman in the country.
3-In Iran and Afghanistan, it doesn’t matter if you’re Muslim or not, believer or atheist, you must wear Islamic hijab or face violence.
4-And guess what? In Christianity the men take the vows too.
So how about you try the Taliban model you’re defending, cover your face, shut your mouth, obey or get beaten?
Let’s see how long you still call it a “choice .”
In the first image, you see an Australian MP wearing a burqa in Parliament to debate banning the burqa for women.
In the second image, it’s me and my friend, two women who have actually lived under the reality of forced burqas and hijabs imposed by the Taliban and the Islamic Republic appearing in an American TV.
Now I learned that the debate on Banning the burqa wasn’t even allowed onto the floor of the Australian Senate. I understand these issues can feel politically risky. But let’s be honest: for us women of Iran and Afghanistan who lived under forced hijab and burqa, this is not an abstract political debate, it is the reality we survived.
We were suffocated by it.
I was beaten by Iran’s morality police for showing my hair.
Afghan and Iranian girls have been lashed, even killed, just for talking about their rights.
And even thousands of miles away, we face assassination plots for the “crime” of asking for a debate on forced hijab.
This isn’t culture.
It’s oppression, exported globally.
What some call “culture,” we recognize as gender apartheid enforced by the Taliban and the Islamic Republic.
This is why I want to extend an invitation to you @PaulineHansonOz, @SenatorPayman, and members of the Australian Parliament:
Open your Parliament to those of us who lived under forced hijab and burqa.
Let Afghan and Iranian women share the truth directly with you, to offer a clearer and more human understanding of what millions of women face today.
Australia has a proud democratic tradition of hearing voices, not silencing discussion.
Including us would honour that tradition.
We don’t ask to be spoken about.
We ask to be heard.
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📢UPDATE: Another field hospital established in the Gaza Strip and began operating.
As part of the ceasefire agreement and our continued commitment to facilitating a humanitarian-medical response, and in close coordination with the International Medical Corps (IMC), we facilitated IMC’s establishment of a field hospital in the Gaza Strip. The facility is designed to expand essential medical services in areas of prenatal care, mental Health, Physiotherapy, and Inpatient Caref or the civilian population.
The new field hospital includes:
• 150 beds
• 200 medical and support staff and has already been treating over 1,000 patients a day.
This is the 15th field hospital to be established in coordination with the international community since the start of the war.
COGAT continues to work with international partners to facilitate vital humanitarian responses.
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👈 IDF soldiers killing a wanted known terrorist after he attempted to evade arrest
👉 Hamas terrorists execute blindfolded and tied civilians
Any questions?
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Just a quick reminder: There are an estimated 1,000 kilometers, more than 600 miles, of tunnels in Gaza. At a normal pace, it would take about 50 days to walk that distance if you walked 20 kilometers, or about 12 miles, each day without stopping.
The IDF has been working for two years to locate, map, and destroy the tunnels, and current estimates suggest they have mapped most of the network, though not all of it, and destroyed about 20 percent. Yes, that includes hundreds of miles of tunnels that remain in the 53 percent of Gaza under Israeli control east of the yellow line.
The work required to eliminate the Gaza metro is massive, but it has to be done, area by area. Any tunnel network left intact, regardless of Hamas, would make stabilizing any part of Gaza a nearly impossible task.
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Anti-Zionists behave like they are the first Jew-haters in history who believe they this time have really really good reason to hate Jews.
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The ceasefire was supposed to bring the hostages home. Instead, Hamas has spaced out the return of bodies for weeks, including one more than six weeks late. But the media keeps focusing on Israel’s responses, not Hamas’ violations. No wonder people are confused.
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The antizionist hate movement has significantly escalated in the past few weeks, following the Security Council’s resolution on implementing Trump’s Gaza peace plan and the continued presence of Israeli troops in Gaza. It appears they received coordinated cues to do so—precisely to block normalization and any movement toward peace.
In lockstep, @amnesty International released a report alleging “ongoing genocide,” further discrediting this institutionally racist organization by applying the concept of genocide even to international arrangements aimed at securing peace, and revealing how they have culturally appropriated that concept from real genocide victims—Jews, Rwandans, Cambodians, and others—to wield it as a tool of colonial scapegoating and white-guilt prestige economics. In doing so, they ensure the genocide libel remains in constant circulation.
The antizionist movement is now openly committed to sabotaging any international resolution and any peace emerging on the ground. Its tactic is to flood the information sphere with antizionist libels, to keep “Gaza” as a permanent symbol of rage, and to stimulate ongoing hatred against Jews while manufacturing consent for anti-Israeli racist violence.
Antizionism is fundamentally anti-peace, anti-Palestinian, and anti-progressive. It is the fascist movement of our day.
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See the 7 km tunnel network under Rafah, just one of many, running directly beneath civilian areas. Yet the UN and assorted commentators still act baffled about why so much of the city was destroyed. What do they think happens when an army has to fight an underground fortress?
