Dee Ackerman

Live, Love,Laugh! Word Warrior.Beach and dog lover. Lucky in love, family and life. "When in doubt, be kind."

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

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#BelieveIsraeliWomen #MeToo_UNless_UR_a_Jew

[Lilac Sigan @lilacsigan]

A letter written by a Professor who teaches biblical studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Dear Students,

I have spent the last 25 years showing you the beauty of all of the literary, cultural, philosophical, & artistic heights of the human spirit over the course of human history. Teaching you has been the most wonderful & satisfying of callings. I never wanted to do anything other than meet with you, discuss ideas with you, discover & rediscover human insights, truths, & wonders. I never regretted my career path, never hated my job, & never doubted my legacy. I felt privileged & honoured to show you how to analyse, to think critically, to weigh evidence, & to understand people & ideas, contexts & complexity, deeply & thoroughly. I thought my work was helping to make the world a better, more humane, more thoughtful place.

You have broken my heart. No: shattered it, irreparably. I don’t know how I will ever set foot in a classroom again. I don’t know how I will ever see you the same way. I know now that I was deluding myself that I ever had any impact, would ever leave any positive legacy, that my work ever made any difference.

I watch you all on social media, in the streets & the quads, marching in solidarity with a movement that seeks only to wipe me out. To exterminate me, my children, my parents, my entire family & community. I know, some of you think you’re trying to help the oppressed. You think that my kind is the white colonialist racist kind that you hate. But I thought I taught you how to evaluate arguments. I thought I taught you the importance of understanding context, both historical & rhetorical. I thought that I taught you that the world did not operate according to dichotomies, like black & white, oppressor & oppressed, villain and victim. I thought I taught you about complexity, about judgment, & to examine your sources & not to take anyone’s statements at face value.

Zionism is the Jewish right to self-determination in our ancestral homeland. Israel is that ancestral homeland. Jews are the indigenous peoples of that land; not the only indigenous peoples of that land, to be sure. But Israel is the only land to which we are indigenous. After 2000 years of longing, the result of the Holocaust – a Nazi movement which sought to ethnically cleanse the world of Jews by systematically exterminating us – was that the international community granted us a sliver of that ancestral homeland. It was to be shared, partitioned into a Jewish state & an Arab state. The Arabs rejected the partition & attacked the Jews when they declared the state of Israel in 1948. The Jews won. Arabs who remained in Israel became citizens with full rights & freedoms. 20% of Israel’s population today is Arab. They fight in the army, they are doctors, lawyers, members of Parliament & supreme court judges. There is no apartheid. Israel’s Jewish population consists of Jews from Arab lands, whose parents or grandparents were kicked out when the state of Israel was formed, & of descendants of refugees from Eastern Europe, Holocaust survivors who had no homes to return to. Some are more recent refugees from Europe, Russia, & the Americas who either returned to Israel for religious reasons or because the Jew-hatred in their communities grew too excessive & they decided to emigrate, to head for the one place in the world Jews can go if their neighbours or governments turn against them.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

⚠️WARNING: DISTURBING!⚠️

"Most of the burned bodies I saw belonged to young kids ages 6, 7, and 10 years old"

Gruesome eyewitness account from forensic experts about the challenges of identifying victims of the #October7Massacre, often burned alive.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

No one knows exactly how many Ukrainian children have allegedly been abducted by Russia during Vladimir Putin’s war. @CeciliaVega spent months following one grandmother as she risked her life to find her grandson before he completely disappeared.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

What happened to the Jewish population of the Middle East and North Africa?

Why are there so few left?

Maybe we can ask the students marching in universities campuses every week, shouting gibberish about genocide?

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

Hamas has held approximately 240 hostages for 42 days.

The hostages are citizens of more than 40 countries and include 33 children.

Why is anyone talking about conditioning aid to Israel rather than focusing on putting maximum pressure on Hamas to release the hostages?

[Dee Ackerman @DeeAckerman]

@DanWhitCongress What a disgusting thing to suggest. What is wrong with you??

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Avigail Edan is 3-year-old.

Her parents were murdered by Hamas. She is alone in Gaza as a hostage of Hamas terrorists.

It's been 6 weeks.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

In the recent J6 tapes released, they want to gaslight us into forgetting what we saw:
- Cops beaten by flagpoles & fire extinguishers
- Cop crushed in door
- Panicked messages from Laura Ingraham & Don Jr begging Meadows to get trump to stop the violence

I remember all of it.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza, had an aggressive brain cancer years ago.

He was operated in Israel and received extensive treatment, leading to his full recovery. All paid by Israeli taxpayer.

Israel saved his life. He sent his "thank you" to us on October 7th.

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Uriah Brodetz is spending another night as a hostage in Gaza.

It’s been six weeks.

[Jeff Jacoby @Jeff_Jacoby]

It wasn't "just" rape Hamas committed. It was gang-rape. It was raping 13-year-olds. It was sexual mutilation. It was shooting women in the back during rape. It was a ghastly crime against humanity.

And it generates no sliver of outrage from those who roared over #MeToo. Watch:

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

The extent of destruction in Gaza is horrifying 👇

Sorry for the typo, this is Homs, Syria 🇸🇾, bombed by the Assad regime.

Nobody cared. No rage, no ceasefire demand. Just a few hundred thousand civilians killed. Carry on.

#NoJewsNoNews

[Bianna Golodryga @biannagolodryga]

Important story from @jaketapper on the horrific sexual violence committed by Hamas against Israeli women on Oct 7th, and the lack of global outrage. “Why would the international community and @UNWomenWatch be silent about these crimes? They seem to be vocal about so much else.”

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

You can’t make this stuff up.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

200 congressional Republicans voted against replacing lead pipes, affordable and accessible broadband for all, and rebuilding crumbling roads and bridges.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

The world: “We must have ceasefire now!”

Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad: “We will repeat the October 7 attack time and again until Israel is annihilated” 👇

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

UN officials say, “Yes, 1200 people were massacred by Hamas, but now thousands of Palestinians are killed.”

And you know, that argument was made before—in the Nuremberg trials, by the head of the Einsatzgruppen, the Nazi death squads that moved around Eastern Europe and killed a million Jews and a million others.

When they were brought to justice at Nuremberg, they said, “Yes, we may have done these killings but you, the allies, you killed civilians when you bombed Dresden and other cities.”

And that was wholly rejected by the Nuremberg court.

The notion that this Nazi defendant was trying to make—that the deliberate and purposeful killing of civilians was equal to the taking of civilian lives that is undesired, unintended and unavoidable—was absolutely rejected. Those are completely two different things.

And that is the essence of civilization: to distinguish between those two.

And sadly, at the United Nations, we are seeing this scandalous Dresden defense being brought up again and again, to equate the purposeful, deliberate killing of civilians, which is a crime, with the taking of civilian lives that is undesired, unintended, but unavoidable.

That should be rejected completely.

(Credit to @Martin_Kramer, “The Nazi case for Hamas” https://t.co/fpJHVYpcb2)

[Tina Smith @TinaSmithMN]

Trump brags about overturning Roe, wants a national abortion ban, and says women should be punished for having an abortion.

That’s not vague and I’m tired of fixing these for you @NYTimes.