Radical Jew. Judaism ≠ genocide
From the river to the sea.
Oct 21 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
🧵Zionism-which once seem a viable, even necessary part of Jewish identity, has now reached a dead end. There are, of course, Jews who will cling to it either out of nostalgia or instinct. And Zionism itself will continue. But it has passed its sell-by date. 1/2/ Genocide is not a feature that most Jews can accept as a legitimate|expression of Judaism. You have to choose. Either you're a Jew or a Zionist. But you can't be both.
Yes, many Jews will say otherwise. But they are living a contradiction.
Mar 8 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Press Call on Humanitarian Aid for Gaza Ahead of the State of the Union | The White House
Following are critiques of main pts in this administration statement: 1/ whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…2/ 1. US will build "port" off Gaza coast calling it "temporary pier." Aid will be offloaded on the coast, where presumably Israel will control its entrance to Gaza & further distribution via humanitarian NGOs.
Jan 19 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
🧵1/There are 2 seemingly contradictory Talmudic dicta relevant to Israel's genocidal policies. Israel uses 1 to defend itself; the other is barely known in this context.
2/ If you discover someone plans to kill you, you may "rise & kill him 1st." This is the slogan of the Mossad & its policy of targeted assassination, which has murdered 3000 Palestinian leaders & others since 1948.
Jan 13 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 1/ Some thoughts on Israel's defense in the @CIJ_ICJ genocide case:
Its representatives attempted to put South African on trial, claiming it was the legal arm of Hamas, etc. The sole legal question is whether Israel is committing genocide.
2/ Diverting the attention of the court from the facts of the case and impugning South Africa is a red herring typical of Israeli hasbara tropes in general. SA is an independent state entitled to act in its own interests...
May 21, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
1/ The GOP war on science & education is a fraud which has transformed them into a "menace" the the American Way of LIfe. When in truth they R vital social institutions, w/o which our country would face disaster. If it succeeds the US will becomes a second rate, backwater
2/ Take the war on education, exemplifed by DeSantis' dismantling of the New College and efforts to suppress or eliminate the criticial thinking at the heart of academic discourse. Studies show that young people with college degrees are overwhelmingly more likely to be liberal
Apr 17, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
.@SimonPlosker of [Dis]Honest Reporting has been peddling a survey by Jewish People Policy Institute claiming 7% of Israeli Palestinians identify as "Palestinian." This of course is misleading because the actual results show that a plurality of them identify as Palestinian. 1/2/ Polls by the leading Israeli-Palestinian sociologist, Sammy Smooha, show consistently over more than a decade that Israeli Palestinians declare a hypenated identity (similar to "American-Jew," "Anglo-Israeli" etc). But a plurality include "Palestinian" in their self-definition
Apr 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I think an even more important question regards the right of armed resistance, and which targets are legitimate. International law and UN resolutions declare that the occupied are entitled to armed resistance against the occupier. 1/
2/ It also declares that civilians are not legitimate targets, but soldiers of the occupying country are. But my problem is that Israeli occupiers have murdered thousands of Palestinian civilains.
Nov 23, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I've lived in Israel and always felt a disconnect between the Bible, Talmud, liturgy and their references to specific historical places; and my own personal experience. 1
2 I never could muster the reverence for geography that the settler messianists & other Orthodox Jews do. To me the power of these texts was spiritual and the places were more powerful as symbols than physical space.
Nov 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A wholly inadequate account of the torture of a Bedouin father & his 2 young sons by Border Police thugs who bound them, kicked them in the groin, beat them into unconsciousness, then urinated on them... 1 haaretz.com/00000184-2dcf-…
2 ...after hurling repulsive racist insults including this: 'Soon they’ll fuck you in jail, stinking Arab son of a bitch.” One of the attackers will enter Knesset on the Jewish Power list.
Oct 29, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
What's especially laughable about @bandlersbanter's hit piece on an anonymous sheet, The Amherst Contra, published by a college student, is that the Contra has no website & is published by a single student with no affiliation with the College. 1 jewishjournal.com/news/united-st…
2 There *is* another Amherst Contra which sponsors contra dances. Bandler claims the article is not yet on the publication's website. He claimed he attempted to get a response fr the publication. Yet the Contra *has* no website and is anonymous, so he couldn't have done so.
Sep 16, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Striking poll by Democratic-leaning group offering views of American Jews on major politic issues. A few graphs follow 1 jewishelectorateinstitute.org/september-2022…
Only 7% of American Jews listed Israel as their top priority: 10th out of 11 priorities. 2
