Ben M Freeman - בן מ פרימן

Author: Jewish Pride, Reclaiming our Story and The Jews: An Indigenous People.

[Ben M Freeman - בן מ פרימן @BenMFreeman]

Exciting news! 🇺🇸📖

I'm thrilled to announce the upcoming special US edition of my latest book, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗲𝘄𝘀: 𝗔𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲, featuring a new cover and a powerful foreword by the brilliant Dr. @EinatWilf.

Even better? The audiobook is on the way too. I’m recording it this week! 🎙️

Both will be released this Fall. Stay tuned!

This book is about reclaiming Jewish identity, unapologetically, rooted in history, indigeneity, and truth.

Thank you, as always, for your support. Am Yisrael Chai!

[Ben M Freeman - בן מ פרימן @BenMFreeman]

@MelanieWeckert Imagine telling the whole world you are a racist

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@The__Padrone @zarahsultana Shut the fuck up!

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And I repeat once again, @zarahsultana is a Jew-hater.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Whatever the punditry, whatever the propaganda, whatever the election result in Israel: replacing Netanyahu with Eisenkot won’t end the occupation, apartheid or the genocide of the Palestinian people.

Both are war criminals. Both uphold a system that subjects 7 million Palestinians between the river and the sea to occupation, domination and dispossession.

Different faces, same Zionist ethnonationalist project.

I repeat once again: Zionism is racism.

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@hartley_jr75442 @zarahsultana 😘

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@DarccMarann @zarahsultana Freak.

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Being tokenised is a form of racism, Shaiel.

[Israel Now @neveragainlive1]

Moshe Feiglin provides a proper Jewish response to a hostile reporter from Canada

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

🔥 holy shit

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Election watch party at @EylonALevy’s!

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These people are truly so fucking stupid.

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

Israeli "democracy":

- 500,000 West Bank settlers can vote, but not the 3M Palestinians under occupation
- 230,000 Israelis in occupied East Jerusalem can vote, but not the 350,000 Palestinians under their rule
- The fewer than 2M Palestinians left in occupied Gaza cannot vote

[Ben M Freeman - בן מ פרימן @BenMFreeman]

There is so much hope in Israel and across the Jewish world right now.

Whatever happens in the coming days and weeks, let us remember this.

We have every reason to believe in ourselves, in our future, and in the extraordinary resilience of the Jewish people.

Hope is the most powerful thing. We must hold on to it.

[Ben M Freeman - בן מ פרימן @BenMFreeman]

142 days ago, I had the privilege of making Aliyah.

I call it a privilege because I believe that a Jew leaving the country of their birth to build a life in a sovereign Jewish state is something that nearly one hundred generations of Jews could only dream of.

Jewish sovereignty was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. There were later periods of Jewish self-rule, most notably under the Hasmoneans, although these were shaped by the influence and ambitions of greater powers. The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 marked the restoration of independent Jewish sovereignty after nearly two thousand years.

For the first time in generations, the Jewish people could determine our own destiny in our ancestral homeland.

But while living in Israel as an Israeli citizen is an extraordinary privilege, it is also an enormous responsibility.

I have always said that Judaism does not belong to us. We are simply its caretakers, entrusted with preserving it and passing it on to future generations. I believe the same is true of Israel.

We have inherited something extraordinary, something that generations of Jews prayed for, dreamed of, fought for, and died for. And with that inheritance comes an obligation to protect it.

Living here means participating in Israeli civic life. It means taking responsibility for the future of our country and doing our part to ensure the continuation of a strong, democratic Jewish state.

Earlier this year, I wrote in Tablet that we are the luckiest Jews to have ever lived. I believe that with every fiber of my being. And the existence of Israel is one of the greatest reasons why.

Today, as I exercise my right to vote as an Israeli citizen for the first time, I am profoundly aware of the privilege and responsibility that comes with it.

I am here because of the generations of Jews who came before me. Because they refused to abandon the dream of Jewish sovereignty, even when its realization seemed impossible.

And I am here because I want to do my part to ensure that the generations who come after me inherit what we have been fortunate enough to inherit.

A strong Jewish state. A thriving Israeli democracy. A homeland in which the Jewish people can live freely, proudly, and as masters of our own destiny.

For my country. For my land. For my people.

What an extraordinary privilege. And what an extraordinary responsibility.

[Ben M Freeman - בן מ פרימן @BenMFreeman]

@AcTranslate Wonderful!

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Tomorrow, for the first time in my life, I will vote as an Israeli citizen.

I made Aliyah just four and a half months ago, and now I have the extraordinary privilege of participating in what I believe is the most important election in Israel's history.

For thousands of years, Jews lived at the mercy of others, denied the right to determine our own future. Today, we have a sovereign Jewish state, a democracy in which we can participate, and a voice in shaping our own destiny.

We are among the luckiest Jews to have ever lived. We must never take that for granted.

Tomorrow, I won't just be watching Israel's future unfold. I'll have a say in shaping it.

What a privilege. What a responsibility. 🇮🇱

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@lancew3190 @naftalibennett

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J̶e̶w̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶m̶i̶s̶f̶o̶r̶t̶u̶n̶e̶.̶

Israel is our misfortune.

#Nazis

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

New low for normalized Jew-hate in the American Democratic Party. Very sad:

Painting your political opponents as puppets of Jews, as this El-Sayed ad does, and as crazed baby-killers and money-grubbing villains who are the root cause of every bad thing not just in the world, but in your life—from wars to the price of eggs to the reason you can’t have free healthcare—is not just low-grade Jew-hate. It’s pure Third Reich stuff, translated directly from the original German.

Do you remember when Jewish Democrats in Michigan explained that they would vote for El-Sayed despite his open disdain for Jews, since there are many other important issues they need him to fight for? That anything was worth it to “defeat MAGA”?

Well, here’s El-Sayed’s answer to them: Don’t worry, all those issues we agree on, like healthcare, inflation, and climate change, I’m going to make them about Jews too! I will tell the public that the Jews are the reason they can’t have those things.

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Jewish anti-Zionism certainly existed in the 19th and in the first half of the 20th centuries.

It bears no resemblance to modern antizionism.

And those who believed in it were tragically murdered in the Shoah. It died with them. Benjamin Moser’s antizionism is an anti-Jewish campaign created by the USSR.

https://t.co/OmMDF2TEZG

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Jewish Pride is the only appropriate Jewish response to Jew-hate.

It gives us the confidence to fight back. It builds our self-esteem. It reminds us that the hatred directed at us is not our fault, and that we have nothing to apologise for.

But Jewish Pride also asks something of us. It asks us to look inward, to examine our relationship with our Jewishness, to confront the shame we may have internalized, and to begin the work of rejecting it.

Crucially, Jewish Pride insists that Jews are the ones who define Jewish identity. Not those who hate us. Not those who seek to erase us. We must understand ourselves, our history, our identity, and our experiences through a Jewish lens, rather than through the perceptions and prejudices of others.

Because JewiJewish Pride is the only Jewish response to Jew-hate.

It gives us the confidence to fight back. It reminds us that the hatred directed at us is not our fault. We have nothing to apologise for.

But Jewish Pride also demands something of us. It asks us to look inward and confront the shame we have absorbed. Then it asks us to reject it.

Crucially, Jewish Pride insists that Jews define Jewish identity. Not those who hate us. Not those who seek to erase us. We must understand our history and our experiences through a Jewish lens, never through the prejudices of others.

Jewish Pride is not simply about how we respond to those who hate us. It is about how we understand ourselves.

We cannot really control whether others hate us. We can refuse to let their hatred define us.

I began writing Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People in October 2019. Seven years later, I believe in its message more passionately than ever. What began as an attempt to articulate a different response to Jew-hate has become the foundation of my life’s work. As the world has changed, my conviction has only grown.

Our Jewishness must always be a source of pride. Never shame. Pride is not simply about how we respond to those who hate us. It is about how we understand ourselves.

We cannot control whether others hate us. But we can refuse to allow their hatred to define us.

I began writing Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People in October 2019. Seven years later, I believe in its message more passionately than ever. What began as an attempt to articulate a different way of understanding and responding to Jew-hate has become the foundation of my life's work.

And as the world around us has changed, my conviction has only grown stronger.

Our Jewishness must always be a source of pride. Never shame.

[Ben M Freeman - בן מ פרימן @BenMFreeman]

A modern-day Max Naumann.

He believed that embracing German nationalism would protect assimilated German Jews.

You believe that embracing the American left will protect American Jews.

Both mistake loyalty for Jewish safety.

He was wrong. You are wrong. And you will discover just how wrong you are when it is too late.

[Mandy Patinkin @PatinkinMandy]

Help get @abdulelsayed elected to the senate! Jewish safety depends on a real multiracial democracy—and Abdul is the one fighting to protect it.

Get involved and help at https://t.co/R9TktAzHWJ
https://t.co/6JFjNJzwkG

We know how much it matters to live in a country where our rights are protected, where the law applies equally to everyone, and where the majority can’t just decide that some people don’t deserve the same freedoms. The safety and freedom we’ve found in America didn’t happen by accident. They exist because of democracy. And protecting democracy means protecting Jewish safety, too.

We know what happens when those protections start to break down. When courts are weakened, elections are undermined, and people lose equal protection under the law, minorities are often the first to pay the price. Jews have seen this throughout our history. It’s one of the reasons so many of our families sought refuge in democratic countries.

That’s why I find it so alarming to see what’s happening right now. When masked government agents are taking people off the streets and citizens are being shot in public, we should all be worried about where things are headed. As Jews, we know that when a government starts targeting certain groups of people, no one should assume they’re safe from what comes next.

Mike Rogers has chosen to align himself with a movement that is willing to attack our democracy. He stood with Trump and refused to accept the results of the 2020 election. And now we’re seeing what happens when a political movement treats the rights and dignity of certain people as disposable. For Jews, these things should set off alarm bells.

Jewish safety is tied to the health of our democracy. We can’t protect one without protecting the other. And in this Senate race, Abdul is the candidate who understands that and is willing to fight for it.

#abdulelsayed #democracy #jewish #midterms

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Jews are indigenous to the Land of Israel, Tiffany.

You cannot colonise your own land.

[tiffany zhao @tiffanyyzhao]

don't colonise a place that isn't yours
don't colonise a place that isn't yours
don't colonise a place that isn't yours
don't colonise a place that isn't yours
don't colonise a place that isn't yours
don't colonise a place that isn't yours
don't colonise a place that isn't yours