Yehya Sinwar in subterranean hospital compound. |
Priestess of Jewish anti-Israelism Perhaps the most hard working, skilled, and well-funded anti-Israel Jewish voice on X is @LaraFriedmanDC, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace @FMEP. @FMEP, in its various incarnations, has since the 1980s been instrumental in working to debilitate Jewish support for Israel among American Jews. You’d be surprised who has been in and out of their doors and coffers. While Friedman also plays a role with the U.S. wing of Peace Now, most of its supporters have no clue about the real work of @FMEP and how the two instruments are linked.
What would Engels do?
Bernie Sanders
- I saw a young socialist holding up a
pro-Hamas sign at some protest in Washington, lamenting how Bernie was standing
with Israel against a ceasefire in Gaza. Against a ceasefire in return for
nothing. Against a ceasefire that would save Hamas without releasing the
captives taken on October 7. I had no idea what she was talking about until I
came across this interview. The
woke socialists look set to excommunicate Bernie. But I welcome his late-in-life
epiphany. Let’s see if it is lasting.
Congratulations
The great genda philosopher Judith Butler, an expert in ethix “third-wave
feminism” and “queer theory,” has been awarded the “Sheik Yassen Chair in
LBGTQRA-T” studies at the Islamic University of Gaza الجامعة الإسلامية بغزة It is expected to be a brief
tenure. Writing in the anti-Zionist London
Review of Books, Butler, an “AsAJew,” engages in tedious woke bothsiderism and
doublespeak. But let me try to summarize her position. Israel=bad. Hamas=not
ideal. Hamas= hideous Hamas=do not deserve to be blacklisted or threatened.Israel=settler-colonial
Hamas= terrifying and appalling answer to Israel=racist framing of contemporary
violence Israel=recapitulates the colonial opposition between the ‘civilised
ones’ and the ‘animals’ who must be routed or destroyed Solution= an end to the state of Israel that
was itself founded in violence no future can be imagined Peace= a euphemism for
normalisation which means keeping structures of inequality, rightlessness, and
racism in place. Got all that? And, yes, she makes a nice living from teaching and writing this stuff.
Let’s keep Detroit’s Samantha
Woll in mind as we await a determination if her
murder was related to the antisemitism and anti-Israelism sweeping America and
Europe. Mass rallies against Israel that often devolve into orgies of antisemitism
have been held in London (on the Tube and in the street), NYC, and Washington, DC.
In Sweden, “bomb Israel” rallies are staged outside synagogues.
The Washington Post hones the art
of the micro-aggressive headline. “As Gaza death toll soars, secrecy shrouds
Israel’s targeting process. Experts say Israel’s rules of engagement in Gaza,
which are classified, appear to include a higher threshold for civilian
casualties than in past wars.” So, IDF
operations have not been signaled to the Post in advance, and the Post disapproves
of the unwillingness of the IDF to sacrifice its soldiers to protect the human
shields Hamas has taken. Thousands of willing human shields sat on plastic
chairs outside a hospital for a screening of the “best jihadist attacks on occupation
soldiers,” cheering the explosions.
Senator Chris Van Hollen (J
Street) – is what you need to
understand in parsing The New York Times complaint that “U.S. Officials Fear
American Guns Ordered by Israel Could Fuel West Bank [Settler] Violence” J Street planting stories in the more than willing NYT.
‘UNRWA, the U.N. agency that aids Palestinians’ – What you need to
know if you are just joining us is that UNRWA is the only refugee agency whose
mandate is NOT to resettle refugees permanently. It is tasked to keep Palestinian
refugees, whether in Palestine or abroad, refugees in perpetuity. Almost all its
employees are Palestinian Arabs. Its schools teach the Palestinian curriculum
of political agitprop: no to permanent resettlement or even permanent housing in "refugee camps." Its buildings have sometimes been used to store weapons
and to shoot at Israelis.
Summarizing This war will not be quick. Israelis are paying a heavy price—soldier funerals. Air raids sirens over
metro Tel Aviv. Hezbollah attacks in the north, and Hamas and Islamic Jihad launches from the south. Jerusalem
is comparatively quiet of sirens. This is a war of “no
choice”. It is either us or them. People
who want a ceasefire without getting our hostages out and the removal of Hamas
are, in effect, siding with Hamas. There is no room for
both-sider-ism.
No comments:
Post a Comment
I am open to running your criticism if it is not ad hominem. I prefer praise, though.