rivka witenberg

Academic and writer. Interest moral development reasoning and judgements including tolerance to human diversity, the Arts and Literature.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

This is fantastic.

[rivka witenberg @RWitenberg]

@BBCPaulAdams You know history better than this and in the final analysis you are not a neutral reporter you are an activist. 3 billions dollars each year. What did Hamas do with it? Oppression of their people, tunnels and weapon. UN infantilise Gazans and UNRWA teaches them hate.

[rivka witenberg @RWitenberg]

@davidstadelmann @HilzFuld what a warped way of looking at the statistics. The explanation is so warped I find it had to believe.

[Michael Dickson @michaeldickson]

Free Naama. NOW! 🎗️

[rivka witenberg @RWitenberg]

@PauloHalo It is possible not hatred to criticism Israel but 5 times a day with no reference to Hamas, their charter of destruction of Israel, October 7, the hostages,the rapes and death. That Israel left Gaza in 2005 and was rewarded with rockets etc then there is an unholy alliance forged

[rivka witenberg @RWitenberg]

Palestinian never owned 94% of the land in 1948 as they argue. The British (1920–1948) accepted Ottoman Empire (1299–1920) land ownership laws. Most of the land (about 76%) was owned by the Sultan later the British Crown i.e. Britain Mandate.

[rivka witenberg @RWitenberg]

According to British Mandate land registries, land ownership was divided roughly in these percentages:76% was state land owned by the British Mandate. 8% was owned by absentee owners, mostly from
Turkey.

[rivka witenberg @RWitenberg]

Turkey. 8% was owned by local Arab clans. 8% was owned by Jews and Jewish organisations. These are official statistic.

[rivka witenberg @RWitenberg]

They owned mostly land in urban areas if at all. I think these official figures tell the real story. Statistics does not lie; opinions are often inaccurate and not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. This is the very essence of the conflict.

[rivka witenberg @RWitenberg]

Billions of people around the world are about to celebrate the birth of a Jewish man in a place called Bethlehem, a Jewish town. Jewish people's history did not start in 1948 but over 2000 years ago, in the land of Israel. Sorry history is history

[rivka witenberg @RWitenberg]

yet on the 9/12/20024 the Vatican presented Christ child in a keffiyeh. History is clear that Jesus was Jewish. There would be no Jerusalem and no Jesus Christ without Judea, the temple and therefore no Christianity. How long are we going to indulge this delusional history ?

[rivka witenberg @RWitenberg]

@AvivaKlompas The insanity and partiality to dictators and hate of Israel of the UN is astounding

[rivka witenberg @RWitenberg]

@mysteriouskat there is approx only 11,000 Jewish people living in the wast Arab Muslim lands. In some countries there is not even one Jewish person living there. There use to be thousands

[rivka witenberg @RWitenberg]

@Hitler_Adolf999 @YosephHaddad what a lot of BS you write or say. You are a world traveler and everyone tells you that they hate Jews. Where is your wide travel taken yo and why do people talk to you about hating Jews??? where have you been??

[rivka witenberg @RWitenberg]

How is it possible that Hamas combatants never die? https://t.co/dk4duWcAQR

[rivka witenberg @RWitenberg]

How is it possible that Hamas combatants never die? https://t.co/SBinZyqulW

[Katherine Brodsky @mysteriouskat]

You don't get to tell Jews what they are. You don't get to rewrite our history, culture or ethnicity.

So here's a short history lesson for you:

Not only approx 60% of Israel's Jewish population has been ethnically cleansed from the Middle East—something to keep in mind as you chant "go back to Europe"—Ashkenazi Jews aren't "European colonizers" either.

Nor is "Jewish a religion." It's an ethnicity, one which commonly practices Judaism as a religion. You can be an atheist, or even a Christian and you still remain ethnically Jewish. It's genetics, not beliefs.

Yes, occasionally people convert and we accept them into the tribe, but this is rather rare — no matter what bs conspiracy theories you've read on the Internet about Khazars.

The Jews who ended up in Europe did so because they were pushed out by conquering forces and other reasons. Some ended up in the Middle East, some in Ethiopia, and a number ended up in Europe. We all share significant mutual DNA, regardless of where the diaspora ended up—even if we don't all look the same.

Yes, genetic studies have shown that Ashkenazi Jews share significant Middle Eastern ancestry, tracing back to ancient Israel. Scientific evidence that underscores our connection to the land.

Our story begins over 3,000 years ago, in the land of Canaan, where our ancestors established the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. You might know it from your bible or Quran. But also, most importantly, archeology and historical research which support that 100%.

Although our numbers have fluctuated, Jews maintained a continuous presence in this region despite numerous exiles and conquests by Babylonians, Romans, Byzantines, and others.

In the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, when the Romans destroyed the Second Temple, many Jews were dispersed throughout the Roman Empire. Yet, even in dispersion, we did not sever our ties to our homeland. Religious Jews pray facing Jerusalem, and Israel is not only included in our prayers, but in cultural practices, such as when we clink our glasses: "Next year in Jerusalem."

We are indigenous to the land.

And while I don't believe that this alone gives us the right over the land today (a different topic), you don't get to just erase that from our history.

To label Jews as European colonizers in Israel is historical revisionism.

To call Ashkenazi Jews "fake Jews" is not only a cruel lie, but an erasure of reality—one they happened to have been prosecuted for.

Some people say such things because they lack knowledge, that can be remedied through a willingness to learn.

But to those who are doing this out of melice:
You don't get to tell me what a Jew is. Our identity is not yours to define, and our history is not yours to rewrite.

[Neil Lazarus @awesomeseminars]

Listen to "The Anatomy of Hate: Explaining #Antisemitism in U.S. #Campuses" by Neil Lazarus via #spreaker https://t.co/QQ09jTTWG5

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

Under the leadership of @antonioguterres the UN has become a tool for Hamas propaganda.

🔴Guterres used terminology which seemingly justified the Oct 7 attacks
🔴Guterres failed to add Hamas to the sexual violence blacklist
🔴Under Guterres' leadership, the UN has yet to issue one condemnation of Hamas.

@UN your silence speaks volumes.

[Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Kᴇᴍᴘ ⋁ @COLRICHARDKEMP]

Columbia University profs: "We found that the food supply entering Gaza is more than sufficient to feed all 2.2 million Gazans." Yet the ICC, the UN and other anti-Israel activists perpetuate the lie of starvation. They are the tools of Hamas propaganda.

https://t.co/KggFJwSS2i