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[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

Last year, I published an article featuring interviews with 13 former Jewish-school students about the “brainwashing” they said they endured. What you see in the video below is part of a trip that almost everyone I spoke with mentioned. Here’s an excerpt from my article that discusses it.

“Another key component most former students mentioned to me was the March of the Living, where thousands of Jewish students from around the world go on a two-week trip consisting of a week in Poland visiting concentration camps and other sites of the Holocaust, and then a week in Israel celebrating the state, culminating in Israeli Independence Day. 

[Shoshana] Schwebel told me that while the trip wasn’t mandatory, classes would shut down during it and it was seen as “embarrassing” to not go. Describing the trip, Schwebel said, “It was really like, ‘Let’s whip them into a froth, and then they’ll be primed to join the IDF.’”

Explaining how this would occur, Schwebel said, “The Israel part was very, very directly a recruiting breeding ground. It was very clearly using this shock of the Holocaust and death camps and concentration camps — a very straight line, like ‘point a’ to ‘point b,’ where ‘point b’ is joining the army and ‘point a’ is the Holocaust. So it’s like, ‘Okay, now you’ve seen the Holocaust. Now it’s your duty as a Jewish person to join the army and make sure that never happens again.’”

Schwebel provided a specific example from her trip: “I remember one activity that they ran for us when we were in Israel where they had us sort ourselves into, ‘Which type of Jew are you?’” The options put forward were “soldier,” “diaspora philanthropist,” “rabbi” and “pacifist.” Schwebel and her boyfriend at the time chose pacifist, the only ones to do so. Then, she said, “[The soldiers] literally just laughed at us and called us naive treehuggers. The soldiers were like, ‘These naive treehuggers are going to get killed. You guys are going to get killed first because you’re so naive.’” 

She added, “The idea was that the top tier that everyone should be aspiring to was ‘soldier,’ and if you weren’t ‘soldier,’ you should be ‘rich philanthropist’ donating to the soldiers.”

The March of the Living’s website links to a 2015 study exploring the impacts the trip has on its participants, and approvingly cites several examples, including that: 86 per cent “assert that it’s very important that their spouse be Jewish”; 91 per cent “intend to give their children a Jewish education” (though just under half attributed that intention to the March); 65 per cent “feel that it’s important to live in a Jewish neighborhood”; and almost 90 per cent “said that the March had made it more likely that they would financially support Jewish causes.” The article adds: “Given the overwhelmingly positive results, it’s fair to say that the March has been and continues to be an enormously successful program in terms of ensuring and enhancing Jewish identity.”

The March of the Living did not respond to The Maple’s comment requests.”

[The Sameer Project @sameerproject]

From university lecturer to genocide survivor, is the story of this Palestinian man who lives in Jabalia. The ongoing genocide in Gaza has transformed hundreds of thousands of people’s lives, and now the daily life = survival. Support here: https://t.co/6l9JFjWInX

This is why mutual aid is crucial. Providing food and water REGULARLY gives Palestinians in Gaza some relief and consistency.

On April 7th, the Translating Falasteen (@translatingpal) x The Sameer Project provided 880 shawerma sandwiches in Al Tawba area in Jabalia. Total cost with 11% commission was $2,383.

Donations dropped drastically so please keep donating to our Food & Water Campaign today: https://t.co/6l9JFjWInX

Other ways to donate include:
https://t.co/OmIU4SifDD (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Food")
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[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

Just $230 more to cover little Miral's surgery!!

[roqayah chamseddine @roqchams]

“I don’t know what to tell you. I saw pieces of my neighbors on the ground."

My eyewitness account of the Black Wednesday massacre that took place last week for @BTnewsroom during which Israel unleashed a wave of airstrikes across Lebanon, killing over 300
https://t.co/u5GBNqCep9

[Juniper ➔ gazafunds.com @nauticaldub]

Less than $400 needs to be collected before another transfer can be made, immediately and in full, to Rola and Duaa’s family in North Gaza. What they’ve endured and continue to endure is beyond words or imagination. Please donate and share widely.

https://t.co/cOSUzoLzCs

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

this is special.

Palestinians and Lebanese are gathering pieces of their children in plastic bags, forced by Israel to live in bug and rat infested tents, amidst increasing open sewage and garbage piles, hungry, freezing, sweating, thirsty, despairing, crippled, amputated, out of school, out of work, out of bread, out of water, degraded and oppressed beyond measure, beyond reason, beyond any human comprehension, but these sons of bitches want to talk about "antisemitic tropes." they want to analyze Palestinian speech.

Oh no! Did I hurt someone's feelings? Did I fail to condemn their thoroughly debunked rape hoax? Did I talk too much about the verified, thoroughly documented and supported systematic rape of Palestinians by Israelis? Was I not deferential enough to Karen the colonizer whose great grandma survived a Nazi camp? Am I too angry that Israelis are committing a genocide and no power is doing a fucking thing about it? Should I be a more polite victim? Did I scream too loud or cry too much when I saw, over and over, the insides of our children's skulls? Do I dwell too much on my own family shattered to all corners of the globe so every Jew can have an extra country?

How dare I?

All the masks are off, including these so-called "lefty" trash folks and outlets that publish them.

#wipeisraeloffthemap wipe it all the way off.

https://t.co/FZzcrYZgVz

[Tamara Nassar @TamaraINassar]

Honored to be publishing this incredibly researched piece by @MujammaHaraket on @intifada:

Debunking the lie that "Israel created Hamas" https://t.co/L81aGs3Z9a

[Olive 🌿 @oliveegirl]

Look closely at these little children; donate to them to buy diapers and formula.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

@AssalRad @Reuters These disgusting folks don’t even show a photo of her. Here is her face.

https://t.co/7eN0Jmw3LT

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

🆘A BABY NEEDS URGENT HELP🆘

[H🤍 FOR GAZA @mahmoud00i8]

Your support means everything. 💛
We’re not only spreading smiles to children, but also working to help everyone in need.
Every donation, big or small, makes a real difference.
Together, we can bring hope, joy.
@ainiladra @Louis_Allday
Hearts for Gaza🤍
https://t.co/535Q19VDP0

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

This is the strike that killed my relative Rana Malaeb while she was at a pharmacy picking up medicine to distribute to displaced people.

She was murdered by terrorists while trying to help people.

Yet this is what Israel and some western media outlets call a “Hezbollah target.”

[goma @soigomaa]

Israel has claimed responsibility for bombing A WEDDING in Gaza City yesterday that killed 7 people from two families, including a 4-month-old BABY. Israel offered no explanation, but acknowledged "uninvolved civilians" were killed. Where's the Bondi beach level media coverage? Where's the outrage

[Louis Allday @Louis_Allday]

Please share and support. I know Mahmoud who is behind this project and want to help him continue doing what he is for those around him in need:

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

11 month old. Head injury. Taken from under the rubble.
Israel's war on children

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Appeals for blood are being urgently called for. The extent of casualties is still not entirely known. Hospitals are being overwhelmed and this in a country which was already on its knees and where medical facilities, health workers and first responders are being relentlessly attacked in Israeli airstrikes

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

Expel Israel from the UN.
And more important, expel Israel from Congress & the White House.

[Branko Marcetic @BMarchetich]

Muted reaction from world leaders to the US president threatening to obliterate Iran in one night. When Putin hinted at nukes, there was talk of sanctions, international isolation, even threats of WWIII. We don't even get words of condemnation in response to this.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

🆘 PLEASE HELP OMAR'S CHILD🆘

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

مناشدة عاجلة: أنقذوا الحاج سالم المصري
الحاج سالم عودة حسنين المصري (خان يونس) يصارع الموت بعد عمليات استئصال معقدة (المثانة والبنكرياس والأمعاء). حالته تتدهور يومياً ويحتاج علاجاً فورياً في الخارج لإنقاذ حياته.
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