I remember when my brother was sent to fight against Hamas in 2009 and was saved from almost-certain death, I was shocked.
But I did not respond with racism.
And I remember when three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and murdered by Hamas terrorists in 2014.
But I did not suggest the genocide of Palestinians is the answer.
That you did is to your eternal shame.
After I discovered you had been fired, I wrote a post describing my feelings as mixed, proud and sad, because I do not desire for people to lose their jobs.
All I, and many other Jews, want is for people like you to take full responsibility for your precious expressions of hatred, not make excuses, and commit not to engage in antisemitism in future.
Even now, you seek to downplay your antisemitism. Your tweets made fun of the massacre of orthodox Jews in prayer months later, for crying out loud. Yet most of your statement serves to portray YOU as the victim.
You're not. You got what you deserved, as harsh as it may be.
Now stop making excuses.
P.S.
I'm part-Iraqi. My grandfather was born in Baghdad. The whole "of colour" thing doesn't wash.
We Jews are not white. We certainly weren't white enough in Europe, and we certainly weren't equal to our Muslim neighbours in the Middle East.
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While many of those attending were civilians, they were sent — against their will — by #Hamas to locations such as this one adjacent to a Hamas military facility, to act as human shields.
"Some of us distracted the Israelis with stones and Molotov cocktails."
Women and children are, understandably, automatically presumed to be innocent by Western observers. But in the course of the demonstrations, women and children frequently participated in the violence.
And see here one youth saying he wanted to "Rip a Jew's head off."
(Note that the @BBC documentary incorrectly rendered "Yahud" as "Israeli" when it actually means "Jew.")
On this day in 1941, during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, Jews were violently attacked in Baghdad, Iraq.
Shavuot is supposed to be a happy time, with families gathering and eating cheesecakes. But in Iraq in 1941, it was anything but as a massacre befell the Jewish community.
As someone with a Jewish Baghdadi grandfather who fortunately escaped Iraq a few years earlier, I am compelled to tell the story that decimated the community he left behind.
This murderous attack marked the beginning of the end of the oldest Jewish community outside of the Land of Israel. 78 years on, many details of this bloody massacre remain unknown.
Nor did it document the wave of Palestinian attacks on Jews for viral TikTok videos that presaged the current violence.
To post this kind of one-sided nonsense while it is a well-documented fact that both Arab and Jewish extremists formed groups of this type is irresponsible, and is not going to help any kind of effort to calm the streets.
Israeli Arabs from a village near Meron have been offering food and drink to all who need, non-stop, for hours.
In Tel Aviv, hundreds of secular Jews have turned up to give blood to their ultra-orthodox brethren.
In Jerusalem, a blood donation station downtown has been turning people away - there's already enough.
In Givat Shmuel, a religious Jew is distributing food for free to families with loved ones who haven't yet made it home, and have been too busy to cook for Shabbat.
A funeral is taking place right now for a Canadian Jew, Shraga Gestetner of Montreal, who has no family in Israel. Hundreds have come to pay their respects.
If only we could harness this togetherness and take it with us always.
1.9m Palestinians are Israeli citizens, have the same rights to Covid vaccines as Jewish Israelis.
5m Palestinians are ruled by the PA and are dependent on the Palestinian health care system. Per the Oslo Accords, Israel is not responsible for their doses.
Is Israel preventing Palestinians ruled by the PA from gaining access to the vaccine?
No. Israel has shared thousands of vaccine doses with the Palestinian Authority, and is looking to vaccinate Palestinians working in Israel.
No. It briefly considered holding Gaza-bound doses in return for progress regarding the plight of 2 mentally ill Israeli civilians held captive by Hamas, but decided against. Not a single dose sent to Gaza has been turned away.
On this day in 1941, during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, Jews were violently attacked in Baghdad, Iraq.
Shavuot is supposed to be a happy time, with families gathering and eating cheesecakes. But in Iraq in 1941, it was anything but as a massacre befell the Jewish community.
As someone with a Jewish Baghdadi grandfather who fortunately escaped Iraq a few years earlier, I am compelled to tell the story that decimated the community he left behind.
The #Farhud pogrom of June 1-2 left over 180 dead and 1,000 injured Jews, saw hundreds of homes destroyed and property looted.