Ela Markovsky

Alien in New York

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

Not even professional wrestling could come up with a more on-the-nose good vs. evil showdown

[Noa Tishby @noatishby]

HOW DARE YOU @GretaThunberg. How DARE you call for ethnically cleansing the Jewish people from our ancestral land?? You know nothing. No history, no reality, no truth. So I have this to say to you.

Israel is not a colonialist state – it’s a refugee state which was literally decolonized from Britain.

The majority of Israeli Jews are people of color, whose families were ethnically cleansed from other parts of the Middle East.

Throughout history, the only indigenous sovereign entities to exist in the land have been Jewish states.

Jews originate from the land, derive our religion and our practices from it and despite centuries of exile and displacement have always kept an unbroken presence there.

And you Greta Thunberg, are chanting “crush Zionism” on the streets of Sweden.

Zionism is the Jewish people exercising our right to self-determination in some parts of our only historic, ancestral and indigenous homeland.

Hamas showed us on October 7 what “crushing Zionism” looks like and you want to cheer that on Greta?

Greta Thunberg, if I can borrow your famous phrase, “how dare you!”

But this is how antisemitism works – Find what is most evil to you, and blame it on the Jews, or today - on the Jewish state.

I can understand that younger generations in western societies feel guilty about the evils of colonialism.

But Israel’s history is not your history, and whatever guilt you feel, supporting the massacre of Jews in their ancestral land will not wash away the sins of your fathers. When your ancestors were colonizing the world, my ancestors were being slaughtered by Cossacks.

We were dreaming – next year in Jerusalem – of building a life raft in our homeland. We fled genocidal violence in Europe. We were ethnically cleansed from Arab countries all over the Middle East. And we built a liberal, democratic Jewish state. That is not a colonial enterprise.

Zionism is not a colonial enterprise – Zionism is the decolonization movement of the Jewish people.
And to anyone who cannot accept our presence or who slanders Israel as something it is not, we are here to say: “how dare you.”

[Ela Markovsky @Suslik__]

@peta Any comment?

[Oli London @OliLondonTV]

Palestinian supporters step on a puppy wrapped in the Israeli flag.

They also attach a zip tie and string around the young puppy’s neck to the Palestinian flag as they smile and laugh.

[The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome @TheMossadIL]

How it started. How it's going.

[MEMRI @MEMRIReports]

Hamas Official Mousa Abu Marzouk: The Tunnels in Gaza Were Built to Protect Hamas Fighters, Not Civilians; Protecting Gaza Civilians Is the Responsibility of the U.N. and Israel #Hamas #Gaza

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

Wow Israel is really bad at colonizing

[FJ @Natsecjeff]

Interesting video released by al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas' military wing) showing how it digs out water pipes meant for Gazans and uses them to make rockets that are fired indiscriminately at Israel. Absolutely evil. #Gaza

[Nature Reviews Urology @NatRevUrol]

A timely reminder that you should never put Christmas lights on a palm tree.🌴🤨

Merry Christmas from all of us at NRU! x

[Ela Markovsky @Suslik__]

@TKKarma Sorry to hear that... Hugs ❤️

[Slava Malamud @SlavaMalamud]

I have just finished watching Episode 1 of Chernobyl on @HBO. My perspective is that of someone born and raised in the Soviet Union who has vivid memories of 1986, the catastrophe itself and how it was handled by the Soviet politicians and the state media...

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Oh, piss off.

[Ela Markovsky @Suslik__]

@JossaDosBichos @MarleneMHS

[Rachel @Rachelbee75]

When you cry and laugh at the same time! great movie to see! Stella was so 😍

[Ela Markovsky @Suslik__]

@Rachelbee75 @keithuhlich @JossaDosBichos @Lncxphile @MarleneMHS I suggest either weekend of Nov 17-18 or 24-25. After that I’m going to Israel for a few weeks.

[Ela Markovsky @Suslik__]

@Rachelbee75 @keithuhlich @JossaDosBichos @Lncxphile @MarleneMHS We do!

[Ela Markovsky @Suslik__]

@xfestcon Great, thank you!

[Ela Markovsky @Suslik__]

@xfestcon Can people share a hotel room? Which tickets should we buy if we want to share a room?

[Ela Markovsky @Suslik__]

@JossaDosBichos @thexfiles

[Ela Markovsky @Suslik__]

@JossaDosBichos @thexfiles

[Ela Markovsky @Suslik__]

@JossaDosBichos Beautiful! It’s still all green leaves here.